BTEC Drama

Today we blocked out the next of part of the final scene, in which Tupolski tells his story of the boy on the train tracks, we discover that the third child is actually alive, and execute Katurian. I think the importance of the story is that, as Tupolski says, the wise man represents himself and we learn something about his character by listening to it. ….this is his whole life. The world is beneath him. These designs, these computations are all he really cares about. In my opinion, this is the truth of Tupolski’s world view. He see’s everything and everyone only from far away and he does not feel as if he is connected to them or can empathise with them. Tupolski leads a lonely existence, he has lost his son and to me if he had a wife I would guess that he does not anymore. Maybe it is a result of his work, which forces him to disconnect from the lives and the emotions of the people he has to interrogate and kill. Maybe Tupolski’s brain is simply different. He reflects the char...

In Scene One of Act Three, Katurian has finally consented to writing up a full confession, showing that he is resigned and has accepted that he will never escape this place. Now his main focus is saving his stories, and he is willing to be remembered as the murderer of three children in order to do it. Arie l also feels that this confession is the end. He is no longer interested in playing games and only wants this case to be over. He is angered by Tupolski’s little “ Write quicker” speech and rapidly shuts it down with his response. The only one still pretending is Tupolski, as he has been throughout the entire play. For me, Tupolski is the character that the audience will find the most difficulty with, when trying to distinguish the difference between what is the characters pretending and what is reality. It seems to me that Tupolski is so wrapped up in the ‘fake’ version of himself that he can’t separate them during the investigation. No matter what may happen, nothing w...

In this section, with the phrase “What happened to the third child?” Tupolski loses all pretence. My character advances suddenly to the table and continues to speak forcefully as he interrogates Katurian about the three missing children. I believe that before Tupolski was hoping for Katurian to either admit or let slip information about the missing children, but now instead he chooses to give him some of the information in the hope of getting a reaction. I think this is in part because there is still a third child that Tupolski needs to find. He cannot wrap up this investigation quickly because there is still a loose end which needs tying up, and because Tupolski believes himself to be a good detective there is no other solution but to do this. In truth, I think that Tupolski is tired. He gets no joy from his job, it’s just something he does because he’s good at it, and for him his motivation is mostly that he wants to go home. The previous section where Tupolski is exaggerative, whe...