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Working on
George Bernard Shaw
Monologues
The Art of Rhetoric Argument
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SAINT
JOAN
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Before
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them. You
have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them.When the angelus rings you cross yourself and have done
with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and listened to the
thrilling of the bells in the air after they stop ringing, you
would hear the voices as well as I do. (Turning brusquelyfrom him) But what voices do you need to tell you what the
blacksmith can tell you: that you must strike while the iron is
hot? I tell you we must make a dash at Compigne and
relieve it as we relieved Orleans. Then Paris will open its
gates; or if not, we will break through them. What is yourcrown worth without your capital?
Saint Jo an
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Beginnings, Middles and Ends
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.
You have not sat in the field in the evening listening forthem. When the angelus rings you cross yourself andhave done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, andlistened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after theystop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.
(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do youneed to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: thatyou must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we mustmake a dash at Compigne and relieve it as we relievedOrleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if not, we will
break through them. What is your crown worth withoutyour capital?
Beginning is a response. Middle is one argument in two parts. End is a
final rhetorical question.
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Looking For Lists:
Verb Action
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.You have not sat in the field in the evening listening forthem. When the angelus rings you cross yourself andhave done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, andlistened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after theystop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do youneed to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: thatyou must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we mustmake a dash at Compigne and relieve it as werelieved Orleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if
not, we will break4
through them. What is your crownworth without your capital?
123: verb action drives the idea forward. Notice past, present, future verb
progression in the 1st example. Whenever you see a list, use it to your advantage:
forward momentum, rhythm.
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Looking For Parallel Structures:
Compare/Contrast or Antithesis
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.
You have not sat in the field in the evening listening forthem. When the angelus rings you cross yourself andhave done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, andlistened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after theystop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.
(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do youneed to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: thatyou must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we mustmake a dash at Compigne and relieve it as we relievedOrleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if not, we will
break through them. What is your crown worth withoutyour capital?
Compare/contrast drives the idea forward. Whenever you see this
structure, find which words need lifting to make the point crystal clear.
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Punctuation (or Drive For Curtain)
Period. End of an idea. Drive forward to each one, then // stop.
Colon: The clause that comes after a : is dependent on the earlier clause. It is a
continuation, a modification, clarification. The : means the idea is not finished.
Drive forward:
Semi-colon; The clause that comes after a ; is a clause that could stand on its
own, but it achieves greater meaning if linked to the earlier clause.
Drive forward;
E x p a n d e d Word. Shaws italics.
Dashes. Sets off parenthetical ideas.
Ellipses. Rarely used.
Breathing: Full stops // at periods. Catch breaths # elsewhere.
Oral/Aural signal: Downward glide at periods. Upward or neutral
(sideways) glide elsewhere.
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Pronunciation
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for
them. When the angelus rings you cross yourself andhave done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, andlistened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after theystop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do youneed to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: thatyou must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we mustmake a dash at Compigne and relieve it as we relievedOrleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if not, we will
break through them. What is your crown worth withoutyour capital?
More often than not, choose the Anglicized pronunciations: an-je-lus,
Cohm-pyen, Or-leenz or Or-le-enz, Pa-ris.
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Web Resources
Whatever you do, look it up and be
consistent.
http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/audio/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s (free e-texts)
http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/audio/http://www.yourdictionary.com/http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/shttp://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/shttp://www.yourdictionary.com/http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/audio/ -
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Tactics
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.
You have not sat in the field in the evening listening forthem. When the angelus rings you cross yourself and
have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and
listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they
stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.
(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do you
need to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: that
you must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we must
make a dash at Compigne and relieve it as we relieved
Orleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if not, we willbreak through them. What is your crown worth without
your capital?
Tactic
change
Tactic
change
Tactic
change
Structure: With each tactic Joan compares herself to them.
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Word Quality
JOAN. They do come to you; but you do not hear them.You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for
them. When the angelus rings you cross yourself andhave done with it; but if you prayed from yourheart, andlistened to the thrilling of the bells in the airafter theystop ringing, you would hearthe voices as well as I do.(Turning brusquely from him) But what voices do you
need to tell you what the blacksmith can tell you: thatyou must strike while the iron is hot? I tell you we mustmake a dash at Compigne and relieve it as we relievedOrleans. Then Paris will open its gates; or if not, we willbreak through them. What is yourcrown worth without
yourcapital?
Note change in weight and feel and sound. Crown/capital- hard k
sounds, alliterative.
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GBS-In his own voice
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I am old. Over eighty, in fact. Also, I have a white beard;and these two facts are somehow associated in peoplesminds with wisdom: thats a mistake. If a persons aborn fool, the folly will get worse, not better, by a long
lifes practice. By having lived four times as long as anyof you, gives me only one advantage over you: I havecarried small boys in my arms--and girls--and see themgrow into sixth form scholars; then into young men andwomen in the flower of youth and beauty; then into
brides and bridegrooms who think one another muchbetter and lovelier than they really are; then into middleage paterfamiliases and anxious mothers with elderlyspreads; and finally Ive attended their cremations(?).Well, now, you maynt think much of this, but justconsider: some of your school fellows may surprise you
by getting hanged; others of whom you have the lowestopinion who turn out to be geniuses and become one ofthe great men of your time: therefore always be nice toyoung people.
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The Four Examinations
Some of the questions can be answered whole orin part textually within the monologue alone, butnot all.
You must read the rest of the play for the otheranswers.
Dont surmise. Dont make things up. Answers
must be supported textually, book and verse.Tell me where in the text your answer issupported.
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Your Assignment
Read over the assignment carefully.
Choose your monologue.
Memorize/Prepare it thoroughly. Read the play.
Hand in a copy of your monologue with
text work. (see Instruction page) Hand in a separate page answering the
basic questions. (see Instruction page.)