lingue

HOW TO ANALIZE A PLAY

1)NARRATOR

.Is he inside or outside the story?

.Does he tell about himself or other people?

.If he is outside does he comment?

.Is there a narratee ? (qualcuno a cui viene raccontata la storia)

2)POINT OF VIEW

.Is it internal or external?

.Does it change during the story?

.What elements allow us to understand it?

3)SETTING

.Is the story set in a well specified time and place?

.Are they said explicitly or can you drow them from other factors?

.Do the events take place in different settings or in different moments? Which ones?

.Are there description of natural settings? Or social and historical contest?

.Are the rules custom and value of the society described?

4)CHARACTERS

.Are all the characters important in the same way? Or are there some characters more important than others?

.Are they described using the physical or psychological features?

.Do they change during the story?

.Are there any contrasting characters?

Do they have a different function?

5)ACTIONS

.Is the beginning described like a tension, lack of balance?

.Is the end a solution of a prevision of lack of balance?

6)TIME OF NARRATION

.Is the story narrated in a chronological order? Or are the events connected by a cause-effect relationship?

7)TECHNIQUE

.What technique does the novelist use?

.Which prevails? (narrative parts, dialogues, speech and thought presentation, interior monologue)

8)LANGUAGE

.Are there any particular lexical or syntactic structures?

9)THEME

.Why did the novelist write the novel?

.What's the massage?