Acceptable subject for the play Essay

A taboo subject is a subject that great deal be embarrassed or find difficult to tattle nigh. Death is a taboo subject because most people are scared of decease and dont want to about it. Usually, when people are talking about taboo subjects, they make it sound better than it is. This is called a euphemism. Lee Hall makes it acceptable in many ways. The first thing is that death is introduced really early on (the first page) so the earreach wont be surprised by it later on, the poor lady who dies so well If I could ever grow up.I would .do the dying Also death is introduced with the opera house to make death seem beautiful and like an art. The opera is played at various points throughout the play to keep the theme of the staged and beautiful opera expiry. Spoonface thinks she understands death, and the dying makes me so clear which makes the audience smell better because she smacks she knows what is happening but isnt scared at all. She has a childlike attitude and isnt emba rrassed to talk about anything. She says everything exactly how it is so the audience know exactly whats going on.She doesnt use euphemisms to make things sound better than they are, I was backwards And now I was going to die. The audience now know that spoonface knows she is going to die. Normally this could be quite upsetting for the audience because no one likes to hear about people dying but spoonface doesnt seem to mind therefore the audience are made to believe that the fact spoonface is dying is not too important. later on on in the play, Spoonface, her mum and her dad find out that she can do numbers.They think that she is a genius which is good because then there isnt the feeling that Spoonface is extremely unfortunate and nothing ever goes right for her. The audience now know that Spoonface has got her own special thing that she is better at than most people which could make the audience less(prenominal) upset about her condition. Spoonface is not scared of death because she believes that when she dies, she will go to heaven as she believes in God, God came and touched me on my head.This faith she has makes the death seem a lot less worse because the audience know she believes in manners after death and spoonface doesnt seem to mind about the fact she is dying. Because Spoonface doesnt seem to mind dying, the audience could get mixed feelings. Either they feel better because she doesnt mind dying or they feel worse because they think Spoonface doesnt understand what dying is. When Spoonface goes into the hospital, Doctor Bernstein talks openly about the holocaust and c oncentration camps and spoonface interprets it into her own words quite graphically.This puts Spoonfaces condition into perspective and sort of makes the audience feel more sympathetic towards Doctor Bernstein rather than having everyone nidus their attention on Spoonface. This doesnt actually make death more bearable, it just gives the audience something tragic to think about to m ake Spoonface seem less unfortunate. Another thing is the slight humour of the play. It must have been a hard subject to put humour into but Lee Hall did this very well. An example of this humour is when Spoonface gives her list, I was supposed to die and we had fish fingers. Spoonface thinks that having fish fingers for dinner is just as important as the fact she will die. Everyone knows that these twain facts are not as important as each other and that having fish fingers is not really important at all. Because Spoonface thinks these things are of equal importance, the audience are led to think that death is not really important either. Lee Hall has written this play through the perspective of a childlike child (Spoonface) so he can say whatever he wants and be as blunt as he wants. There are layers of essence throughout the play because of Spoonfaces naivety.At the end of the play, Spoonface talks about the sparks. This is her idea of the point of life and death. She believes it is her destiny to be the way she is and that she has found her spark and that once you find the spark there isnt any point in you being alive. The audience think that she has completed what she was put on the earth to do therefore she isnt really needed. The final point is that after reading the play, the audience gain better awareness and understanding of the play and it may bowdlerize peoples perspective on life and could make more people be happy to be alive.