Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

David Williamson’s play “the Removalists”, Rob Stitches film “The castle” and Bruce Dave’s poem “Mrs. Swipes speaks out” all use different types of techniques to reveal a persons character through their own spoken word. The spoken word may reveal many things about a character like their level of intelligence, the type of personality they have and other things about them. In David Williamson’s play “The Removalists” the main characters Sergeant Dan Simmonds and Constable Neville Ross show what type of character each of them are when they interact with one another and others in the play. The opening scene is where Simmonds is examining Ross by continuously asking him questions. During this scene Simmonds and Ross have a long conversation, Simmonds shows Ross that he is the one that is in control and in charge. He shows this by asking Ross a lot of questions trying to find out what he does, what kind of background he came from, why he decided to join the police force etc. in some cases he ask personal question to Ross. For example Simmonds asks Ross “so what does your old man do for a crust?” This shows that Simmonds is dominating in this conversation asking Ross whatever questions he likes even though the