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Literary Analysis

Experience/Performance

Language

Jim- hope

Laura- change

LIterary analysis:

Laura is a character provides the play with elements of hope, change, and despair. I transformed excerpts from Act 2 scene 8, when Laura and Jim are having conversation and it becomes a motivation to Laura to open herself and change her mind. Jim gives confidence and courage to Laura by saying that she is not different with other girls, and by emphasizing how special she is. This scene is the most important part for Laura in the whole scenes of the book since Jim appears and changes Laura to a different person. Jim is the hope of the scene, and the most important character who has been changed Laura.

Our performance begins when Jim asking Laura what has she done since high school in Act 2 scene 8. The scene establishes the affection between two characters and the process of Laura getting changed. During their conversation, Jim tries to give Laura some confidence and to realize herself that she should be proud of herself.

After Laura listening to Jim, Jim’s advice and warmth has enabled her to overcome terrible shyness and introduce him about the glass collection which is her most cherished possession

Performance/ analysis:

In terms of performance, I tried to demonstrate Laura’s significant change affected by Jim. Before Laura met Jim, she was a terribly shy girl who did not express herself and being afraid of getting focused by others. While their conversation, I usually sat on the floor and stared at floor to show her shyness while Josh stretches his arm widely and talk loud in order to show their difference of the personality.

Her shyness was clearly shown in Act 1 scene 2 during the conversation between Laura and Amanda, when Amanda asked Laura reason for not going school, and Laura answered by saying “I couldn’t go back. I threw up on the floor!”.  Laura used her shyness to avoid from the situation and retreat into her own world. Through the scene, I could notice her momentous change of her personality that she later had been overcame her insane shyness after talking to Jim and realizing how special she is. Laura started to open herself and to fully engaged in conversation by introducing her unicorn and saying “Little articles of it, ornaments mostly.” I , Laura,  stood up and walked closer to Jim to describe that she became more active and gained some confidence on herself. As Laura spoke about her unicorn, I approached right in front of Jim and volumed up my voice to stimulate her change.

In the bridge dancing scene, I and Josh put romantic music on the background and we eye contacted and grabbed each other’s arms at the same time to stimulate their affection. Moreover, the light was only focused to us that audience could completely focus on the characters and were able to notice the characters’ attachment.  

Our blocking was nice that audience could understand the relationship between Jim and Laura, and how Laura has been largely affected by Jim. Furthermore, I showed the significant change of Laura through changing my voice, eye contact, or body movement so that audience could notice that Jim’s advice and compliment have been changed her to open herself and start gaining confidence to herself. The light also took a huge role during our performance. Especially while I and Josh were dancing on the bridge, the light was only focused to both of us that audience could more focus on the characters and were able to notice the characters’ affection.