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ENGLISHLITERATURE

COMPONENTDrama: Gulp and Gasp

Ayzad Zaqwan Bin Zainal

4A

Amethyst 411513


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THE SYNOPSYS

This a melodrama about Lord Septic, a very wealthy

villain who meets his match in the hero,Percy Gatsby.

Lord Septic is greedy for more power, money and fame.

he is so villanuos that he is capable of committing

murder to get what he wants. he owns the railways andis after the Gatsby gold. Crouch, Lord Septic's

manservant, is a slimy person who as his name suggests

crouches to the demands of Lord Septic. He is a big bully

who grovels for his living. Rose is a damsel in distress

who makes a living out of selling flowers. She is blind and

hopes to have enough money to heal her sight and to

look after her sick mother. She meets Percy, the hero

who comes to the station and rescues her from Crouch.

They fall in love and he rescues her from a bloody death

at the railway tracks. Later, Percy learns he is the heir to

the Gatsby gold and is known as Sir Percy. Lord Septicloses everything.


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THE PLOTEXPOSITION - Lord Septic, the villain,and his manservant Crouch, a groveling

bully, are waiting for the midnight

express at the train station. Lord Septic

owns all the train stations and he wants

wealth and power.

RISING ACTION/CONFLICT - Rose, a

blind flower girl comes to the station.

Crouch bullies her and Percy, the

dashing hero comes in to help her. He

tells her about himself.


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CLIMAX - Lord Septic hits Percy and ties

Rose to the train track. Percy runs off to

try and stop the train coming down the

track.

FALLING ACTION - Percy stops the train

and Rose is saved. Percy learns that he is

Sir Percy Gatsby and heir to the GatsbyGold.


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RESOLUTION - Lord Septic and Crouch,

the villains, are tied up and waiting to be

picked up by the police. Percy, the hero,

proposes Rose and she agrees to marry

him.


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THE THEMESGreed and MaterialismLord Septic yearns for more money although he

is already rich. He aims to be the richest man inthe world. He and his father killed Lady Gatsby

for her gold. He married his wife because she

owns a gun factory. To cut cost, he does not

care for the safe storage of matches at his

factory.

Justice prevails

In the end the truth is known. Lady Gatsbys

murderer is found and the gold is returned to

its rightful owner. Lord Septics greed leads to

his downfall, as Percy and Rose are prepared to

expose his crimes.


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THE SETTINGSy An empty train

station.

y A cold foggy night.


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THE CHARACTER

ROSE

Characteristics: Poor and humble

Textual evidence:

She lives in poverty and sells flowers for a living. The

hardship that she is going through made her lead a

simple, humble and homely life. When she came to sell

the flowers at the railway station, she has not eaten for 3

days and she is greatly hoping to earn some coins. Her

house is in a very poor condition and the attic room has

dry rot.


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Characteristics: Blind and innocent

Textual evidence:

Rose is blind due to the flames at the match factoryowned by Lord Septic. She has to lead a hard life as she

lost her eye sight. Though she is blind, she is honest in

earning money for living and her deed of working as a

flower girl reflects her innocent attribute.

Characteristics: Hardworking and strong

determination

Textual evidence:

She is hardworking and strong determined as she iswilling to take all the trouble to walk all alone and sell

the flowers at her own risk. She wants to save up for an

operation on her eyes.


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Characteristics: Caring and devoted

Textual evidence:

She cares for her sick mother, so she sells flowers inorder to pay for her mother's medication and

treatments. She is a devoted child who looks after her

ailing mother although she is blind.

Characteristics: OptimisticTextual evidence:

She is also optimistic as she never gives up in her effort

to earn money to treat her mother and for her eyes

operation. She is a person who is always hopeful and

expects the best in all things.


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Characteristics: Smart and efficient

Textual evidence:

She discovers the identity of Lord Septic, accuses him ofvictimizing her and threatens to expose his crimes by

showing a courageous spirit to fight for her rights.

Besides that she is also quick in finding out about Percy's

background and gives moral support to him to regain his

family fortune. She helps in unraveling the mystery of the

key in order to tie up all the loose ends.

Characteristics: Romantic

Textual evidence:

Her romantic admiration towards Percy is revealed

through her speech: "Oh, Percy! You're my hero. My

knight in shining armour. My good knight." She also said,

"It could be the key to my heart!"


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PERCYCharacteristics: A helpful orphan

Textual evidence:

Percy's mother was killed on the railway line and he

became an orphan living in poverty and hardship. He was

found in the litter bin at the railway station, wearing a

purse containing a key bearing the initials, NSL. He wentthrough a poor life without realizing that he is actually

the rightful heir to Gatsby Gold. Although he is an

orphan, he is a selfless and helpful. He helps Rose to pick

up her flowers which is thrown by Crouch, and rescued

Rose from being killed by Lord Septic when she is tied on

the railway tracks by Crouch.


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Characteristics: Generous

Textual evidence:

Although he is poor he is sympathetic towards Rose and

he really wish he could give her some money when he

first meet her at the railway station. When Percy came to

know that he is rightfully the heir of Gatsby Gold, he

willing to share his gold with Rose.

Characteristics: Intelligent and resourceful

Textual evidence:

Percy is quick in thinking as he managed to stop the train

before it runs on Rose. He is smart enough to dab his

bleeding nose with his pants until it become dark re. then

he climbed up the gas lamp at the far end of the station

and put his pants over the lamp.The train driver thought

it was a stop light, so his pants brought the train to a

halt.


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Characteristics: Kind hearted and humble

Textual evidence:

Percy is willing to share his wealth with Rose although heis an aristocrat. He propose Rose as he is willing to marry

her out of love . He willing said that half of his wealth is

for her, so that she can pay for the operation to regain

her eyesight and pay for her mother's pills to make her

well again.Besides that he wants to buy a home and

marry Rose and be her life partner.

Characteristics: Brave and fights for justice

Textual evidence:

He grabs Crouch by his color when Crouch treated Rose

badly. He rescues Rose from being killed by Lord Septic

and he manages to chain him and his servant so that they

cannot escape from their evil deeds. Finally the villains

are left to their fate as the police are approaching the

track.


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LORD SEPTICCharacteristics: Cruel and greedy

Textual evidence:

Lord Septic is a cruel owner of the match factory where

Rose worked. . When she lost her eyesight due to the fire

in the factory, he did not pay her for the damage. Besides

that he treats Rose like a beggar and chases her form therailway station. Although he is rich, he want more and

more wealth, he seeks more power and willing to kill for

it. He wants to be the richest man and wants to find the

Gatsby Gold.

Characteristics: Hot tempered and egoistic

Textual evidence:

He grabs Rose by the wrist and demands Crouch to tie

her up. He takes control of the situation and he said that

no one ever tells him what to do


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Characteristics: violent

Textual evidence:

He creeps from the shadows and mercilessly hits Percyon his head with his stick.Then he slams Percy against the

locker. He commands Crouch to tie Rose with the rope to

the tracks as he hears the train coming.

Characteristics: SelfishTextual evidence:

He did not keep the match factory safe because it would

cause him money. As a result there was a fire out break

which has caused harm and trouble to the poor workers

who earn their living working in the factory. He even has

no respect for his wife and calls her a nagger and he

confesses that he married her wealth as she own a gun

factory.


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Characteristics: Evil in nature

Textual evidence:

He threw away the Gatsby Kid in the litter bin withoutany sense of humanity. He mistreats his workers and is

very rude to Crouch, Percy and Rose. He is impatient and

ill-mannered as he plans to sack the driver and everyone

if the train does not arrive.

Characteristics: Rude

Textual evidence:

He is rude and uncouth in language and he looks as

though he lacks breeding although he retends to be

someone from upper crust. His rudeness is revealed from

the way he talks and treats Rose, Crouch and Percy


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CROUCHCharacteristics: SubservientTextual evidence:

Crouch is a servant who is so devoted and

submissive towards his master. Lord Septic. He

gives too much respect to his master. He is dim-

witted as he simply agrees with whatever his bosssay and instructs.

Characteristics: BullyTextual evidence:

He bullies Rose and throws away her tray of rose

across the platform. He has no sense of humanity

although he knows that Rose is poor and blind.

Characteristics: CowardTextual evidence:

He is actually feeble has he confesses that he is just

following orders from Lord Septic and he doesn't

want to be blamed for the evil acts he did.


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Characteristics: GrovelTextual evidence:

He has no self dignity and grovels for a living. Hegrovel at Lord Septic by saying that he is such a

great man and he has a big lordship. He even

grovels at Percy by saying "By all means, sir.

Anything you say, sir."

Characteristics: Power crazyTextual evidence:

He enjoys the time when he is given power to chase

Rose from the railway tracks. Thus he is also power

crazy like his master.


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THE MORAL VALUESWe should be sensitive to peoplesfeelings.

Crouch is unkind to Rose. He knows that Rose is

blind but he bullies her by throwing away her

flowers. In contrast, Percy is kind to Rose. He

helps her pick up the flowers and tries to cheer

her up. He also offers to pay for her eye

operation.


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Responsibility

We must be responsible in life. Lord Septic is

not a responsible employer. He did not pay his

workers and does not care for their safety.

Rose, on the other hand is very responsible.

Although she is blind, she sells flowers to earn

money so that she can help her mother.


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THE LANGUANGEPuns:A play on words that sounds the same but

have several meanings and would create a

certain degree of confusion.

Example:-

Percy: What a rotter that manis! They

have just go on a strike on one of his factories.

They all want a shorter wick.

Rose : [laughing] I think you mean WEEK. They

want a shorter working WEEK.

Percy: No it is a candlefactory.


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Confused language:

The use of different words in replace of the

more appropriate words.

Example :

Lord Septic : It is just like the night many years

ago. I stood right here as my father tied Lady

Gatsby to the sametrack.She was the riches

widow in town. He tricked her to meet him on

this station one dark night.

Crouch : Killer trains must runs in your family,sir!What Crouch should have said is Killer

veins that means killing streak must have been

hereditary.But instead he uses killer trains

because the killing happened ina train station

and Lady Gatsby was runover by a train

aswould be Rose.


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Tongue twisters :

a phrase that is intended to be difficult to say,

especially when repeated quickly and often.

And it also sounds comical when the characters

say their lines quickly.

Example :

Percy is purse and purple pants popped these

plotters and their pranks.


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BACKGROUND OFTHE AUTHORThe Playright John Townsend

John Townsend is a childrens writer of over a

hundred books, many of which arenon-fiction

covering diverse subjects such as history,

geography, science, medicine, crime, and natural

history. Having taught in both primary and

secondary schools (including running a special

needs department in a comprehensive school),

he has experience of all ages, abilities and most

curriculum subjects includingdrama&writing/producing the dreaded school

plays.

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