Joan MacLeod's Use of Monologue and Stylistic Features in The Shape of a Girl

This essay analyzes Joan MacLeod's use of monologue and stylistic features in The Shape of a Girl to effectively share and present the inner thoughts of the main character, Braidee, and create drama and connect with the audience. The essay discusses the use of monologue, stylistic features, language, and techniques made by Joan MacLeod to create drama and connect with the audience.

The shape of a girl

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The current essay writing is based on analysing the Joan MacLeod’s use of the monologue
as a vital and significant form in order to effectively share and present the inner thoughts of the
Braidee from the “The shape of a girl”. Apart from this, a discussion about the use of the stylistic
features, language and techniques made by Joan MacLeod’s to create drama and connect with
the audience is also made.
Main Body
The Shape of a girl is a basically presenting a retrospective account of the life of a girl
Braidie who tend to struggle to come to terms with bullying and the act of the violence that
occurred in her past. The writer of The shape of a girl, Joan Macleod was tending to be inspired
by the happening of a horrific incident that was occurred during the year1997 in which the
violent murder of Reena Virk by her peers was happened (McLeod, 2002). The Story of the
shape of girl revolves around the Braidie who is a bystander and reflects upon the treatment of a
bullied friend. Under the script and writing of The shape of a girl, she tends to observes and
reflect on the power dynamics that exits between the friends from the very young age and also
sees the gradually intensifying hostility that tend to lead to violence. Thus, in the script and
writing of the Joan Macleod’s the main character is Braidie who discovers how detrimental
bullying is to the victim and examines her own actions and the actions of others who participate
in the cycles of violence (Melzer, 2009).
Therefore, a greater and higher emphasis is made on the Joan MacLeod’s on the efficient
use of the monologue to ensure the proper coming out and sharing of the inner thoughts of the
Braidee which sets out the main connect and attraction for the audience. The use of the
Monologue from the Joan MacLeod’s is allowing the Braidee to effectively address the core
theme and present in the most purposeful and effective storytelling way that provides all the
needed detail about the inner feeling of the Braidee to the audience in detail and set out nest plot
for the current drama (Qi-xia, 2008). Further, an analyses has been made about the Joan
Macleod’s use of the monologue which is vital and significant form to share Braidee’s inner
thoughts through meeting the specific purpose of the storytelling along with giving the audience
a more detailed about the feelings of struggle to come to terms with bullying and the act of the
violence that occurred in her past. Along with this, the use of monologues by the John Macleod’s
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also supported the great way to share the inner feelings and thoughts along with presenting the
backstory of the Braidie in most effective and special detailed manner which set out a better plot
and attractiveness in the audience.
The key feature and use of the monologue by the John MacLeod’s to share the inner
thoughts and feelings of Braidee comprises of many dramatic and stylistics feature that consists
of monologue in the theatre specialty at the centre (thomas dale woot woot) and the main lead
went to for high school. It’s from a one woman show who so 14-year-old Caroline who felt that
meant physically acting out all three characters in this intense bullying scene in the bathroom.
Further, the act that presenting the fast forward to 18-year-old Caroline in her freshman year of
college, with an undecided major along with the first serious monologue and the fast forward to
21 year old Caroline that just taped over and over ag felt good to analysed the acting enough
comprises of complete mix of a cool art is in the eye of the beholder and all folks which ensure
and maintain the complete attractiveness and interest of the audience (Abulnarsova, 2021).
Further, use of other language and stylistic features and techniques which are made by
the John Macleod’s to create drama and connect with the audience comprises of the effective
discussion about the violence and things that the students and the Braidee has witnessed and
heard about. Further, to have more attractiveness and better connect with the audience it is vital
to have and apply the understanding and dramatic scenes on the interventions and violence
prevention strategies. Further, the improved stylist feature and technique that tend to be used by
the Joan Macleod’s to create drama and have effective connect with the audience include the use
of proper bifurcation of the scenes that are listed and presented as below:
 1. 8 years old – Sofie is the new girl
 2. 10 years old – Sofie is known as IT
 3. 12 years old – Class goes to see Hamlet
 4. 12 years old – Adrienne attacks Sofie on the beach
 5. 14 years old – Adrienne bullies Sofie at school while Braidie watches
 6. 15 years old – Braidie tells Annie about Sofie
 7. Final Scene – 8 years old – Adrienne, Amber, Sofie and Braidie are at the beach
Further, it has been also seen and analysed that the use of the dramatic language is used and
most effective as it helps in miming the speech and it also helps in supporting the monologues
that presents the inner thoughts of the Braidee (Widirahayu, 2021). Finally, the use of the use of
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the pun language along with allusion, diction, epigraph, euphemism, foreshadowing, imagery,
metaphor, simile, personification, point of view, and structure are also effective stylistic features
and techniques to create drama and connect with the audience by the way of foreshadowing
bring the reader into the action of the play along with leading the minds of the characters
(Amonovich, 2021).
CONCLUSION
On the basis of current analysis, a conclusion can be made that the monologues provide a
specific way of storytelling that ensuring sharing of more detail to audience about the inner
thoughts and backstory of character. Further, it has been also summarised that the stylistic
features and techniques along with dramatic and other language supports effective creation of
drama and better connect with the audience.
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McLeod, J., 2002. The shape of a girl (p. 49). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
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Melzer, P., 2009. ‘Death in the Shape of a Young Girl’: Feminist Responses to Media
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Qi-xia, H.E., 2008. Discussion on an Important Method of Training Shape of the Body to the
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