'Her Big Chance' By Alan Bennett: Talking Heads
"Her Big Chance" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett. Her big chance is in a series of programmes called Talking Heads. Talking Heads are all programs about a person talking about an event in their lives and they were all written in 1980's and are set in the 1980's. Alan Bennett was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He grew up there and was educated there. He grew up in an ordinary family with an ordinary life.
Allen Bennett has used many techniques to make Lesley seem real. He makes Lesley seem like a typical person and this lets the audience relate to her. Lesley is the main character in this story. She is an actor who finds a job in a film. She takes the role but it ends out that the film is a pornography film and is only being released …show more content…
Alan also gives her other qualities which don't match her stereotypical character like when she says "I'd rather curl up with a good book quite frankly".
To give the characters in Talking Heads a background Bennett talks about their family. In this episode Lesley only mentions her family once and she only mentions her brother. This shows that she either doesn't have much of a family and is quite lonely or that she hasn't got on well with her family. This gives her a back story and makes her seem more believable. Bennett also gives Lesley a context. It shows that she is a middle aged women who thinks she is doing well in her job but isn't. She says that she stars in cross roads but in reality crossroads was a very poor TV show and she was just an extra with a very small role in it. The programme was also made in 1970's which shows that she lives in the past. Bennett also shows that Lesley meets people in the story, there are many character interactions. When she is talking about a conversation she says "he said" and "she said" a lot. This is to make it sound more like she is talking which reinforces the sense of reality. "Hello' he said 'hello' I said 'what do you do?' he said 'I'm in films' I said". Bennett also uses other
Allen Bennett has used many techniques to make Lesley seem real. He makes Lesley seem like a typical person and this lets the audience relate to her. Lesley is the main character in this story. She is an actor who finds a job in a film. She takes the role but it ends out that the film is a pornography film and is only being released …show more content…
Alan also gives her other qualities which don't match her stereotypical character like when she says "I'd rather curl up with a good book quite frankly".
To give the characters in Talking Heads a background Bennett talks about their family. In this episode Lesley only mentions her family once and she only mentions her brother. This shows that she either doesn't have much of a family and is quite lonely or that she hasn't got on well with her family. This gives her a back story and makes her seem more believable. Bennett also gives Lesley a context. It shows that she is a middle aged women who thinks she is doing well in her job but isn't. She says that she stars in cross roads but in reality crossroads was a very poor TV show and she was just an extra with a very small role in it. The programme was also made in 1970's which shows that she lives in the past. Bennett also shows that Lesley meets people in the story, there are many character interactions. When she is talking about a conversation she says "he said" and "she said" a lot. This is to make it sound more like she is talking which reinforces the sense of reality. "Hello' he said 'hello' I said 'what do you do?' he said 'I'm in films' I said". Bennett also uses other