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Group 5 - IDENTITYIdeasEve's fake lifePhoebe being a blank canvas - making her own identityAddison seems to be aware of Phoebe's facade?Changing identityMargo fighting age and struggling with her new identity (older)QuotesMargo struggling to adapt to ageMARGO(entering)You bought the new girdles a sizesmaller. I can feel it.?BIRDIESomething maybe grew a size bigger.MARGOWhen we get home you're going toget into one of those girdles andact for two and half hours.?BIRDIEI couldn't get into the girdle intwo an' a half hours…Phoebe blank canvas / Addison knowsADDISONAnd what is your name?GIRLPhoebe.?ADDISONPhoebe?GIRL(stubbornly)I call myself Phoebe.?Margo’s IdentityMARGOSo many people - know me. I wish Idid. I wish someone would tell beabout me...KARENYou're Margo. Just - Margo.?MARGOAnd what is that? Besides somethingspelled out in light bulbs, I mean.Besides something calledtemperament, which consists mostlyof swooping about on a broomstickcreaming at the top of my voice...infants behave the way I do, youknow. They carry on and misbehave -they'd get drunk if they knew how -when they can't have what theywant. When they feel unwanted andinsecure - or unloved.? ?MARGO - Identity, just what she does? ? ? Withoutthat, you're not woman. You'resomething with a French provincialoffice or a book full of clippings -but you're not a woman...(she smiles at Karen)... slow curtain. The end.?Q1) Brainstorm statements and asserting about this theme (at least 5)Insecurities and identities; even stars have flaws and insecuritiesMackenwicz explores the ideas that age is a reoccurring problem in theatre.It becomes clear that actors struggle to find their own true identity off the stage.The Sarah Siddons becomes a part of Eve’s identity.As the characters truly become an actor, they leave their own identity behind.Ambition costs the characters their values, and their own identity is lost.‘Sharp teeth’ is necessary to survive in the theatre world.Q2) Write as many quotes that capture this themeMARGO: You’re something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings - but you're not a woman...MARGO: ‘I’m nothing but just a body and a body.’LLOYD: ’It’s about time the piano realise it didn’t write the concerto.’MARGO: ‘Don’t get stuck on some glamour puss.’KAREN: ’Nothing is forever in the theatre, it burns bright and then it’s gone.’MARGO: ‘Bill’s thirty two, he looks thirty two.’MARGO: ‘Funny business a women’s career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder.’MARGO: ‘You forget you’ll need them again when them again when you go back to being a women.’EVE: ‘She never proved anything, not a thing.’ADDISON: ‘It’s important right now that we talk killer to killer.’ADDISON: ‘Couldn’t go on, you’ll give the performance of your life!’Q3) Select 6 of these quotes and analyse them.MARGO: ‘I’m nothing but just a body and a body.’Margo becomes aware that she is merely a body and a voice without true character or identity. Her loss of her own identity is showcased when Bill replies with ‘what a body, what a voice.’ She is aware that she is just a puppet, expressing complex ideas written by the playwright’s. LLOYD: ’It’s about time the piano realised it didn’t write the concerto.’MARGO: ‘Don’t get stuck on some glamour puss.’Margo’s insecurities are exposed here when she thinks that Bill is going to get stuck with some ‘glamour puss’ - a young, more appealing women. This highlights her insecurity with age and Margo is afraid that? Bill is going to hollywood and going go off with a younger more appealing version of herself.EVE: ‘She never proved anything, not a thing.’Eve’s manipulating and lying nature is showcased through her denial of her past life. Her identity is put into question.ADDISON: “You belong to me”Reference: ‘she was a liar, a liar!’?This scene describes the first time ever where Eve’s mask comes off. She becomes exposed and runs off into her bedroom. Addison capitalises on the moment by reinforcing that she belongs to him now. This scene was followed by Eve ready to kick Addison out but her gut feeling tells her otherwise.ADDISON: “lets talk, killer to killer.”This shows the true identity of both Addison and Eve. They are both predators and their true identity are ‘killers’. Her false identity of being nice and innocent disappears as her facade is no more.MARGO: ‘Don’t get stuck on some glamour puss.’This quote really represents women at the time and their ability to be their own person. Their identity seems to be surrounded by the idea of the necessity of a man.?4)a ultimate loss of power was shown when Addison confronted Eve about her past. she ultimately lost her identity when addison explains that “[Eve] belongs to [him]” In this scene she looses her individuality and addison limits her career.?Margo expresses her experience as a woman to Karren. She states that unless you can “look up just before dinner” or “turn over in bed” and “there he is” “you aren't a women”. She also states that they are nothing but a “book full of clippings” and that is worth nothing unless you have a man to share it with. Mankiewicz is suggesting that a man completes a woman, that is to say the company of a man completes a woman identity.Margo states that Birdy “bought the girdles a size smaller”. This is important as Margo isn't acknowledging that she is gaining weight- a sign of maturing-.5)Mankiewicz suggests that actors and actresses have trouble with their identity on stage and off stage and that even stars have insecurities.Q6) Mankiewicz uses the way eve is dressed to hint that she is hiding her true identity, as her attire is very concealing. Mankiewicz also uses the aspects of dark and light apart of the costumes of the Margo and Eve throughout the film to indicate the deception of the characters.Q7) the painting of macbeth (deception)Q8) Create a topic sentence using this theme?TS When there is no line to read, and no goal to achieve - are they just ‘a book full clippings’ ................
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