Playing the Character John from Blue Remembered Hills
The group, consisting of John, Audrey, Angela, Willie and Raymond;
have heard a bomb siren going off from the nearby prison camp. They
know that this means danger and as they are in the woods, they cant go
anywhere for cover and start to worry about one of the prisoners, or
“Ities” and “Wops” as they call them, having escaped. They decide to
keep an eye out for any dangers but all the talk of these “Ities” had
got them just frightening each other even more. Raymond hears a sudden
noise and the threat sends them running for cover in the long grass,
huddling together as a group.
After a while, they find out that the disturbing noise was in fact
their friend, Peter, running through the woods towards them because of
the sirens.
Having left Angela’s pram behind, John and Peter decide to go looking
for it; and this is where the scene ends.
When we first see the group in this scene, they are all huddled
together in the cover of the long grass. John reassures the rest of
the group that this is a safe place to hide.
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“Him wont find us down here” “This is nice and safe. Ennit?”
John is slightly unsure of just how safe they are and in both quotes
he is not only reassuring the group but also himself. I would say the
first quote with confidence and while looking through the grass. The
second line would be said in a lower pitch of voice as he is not as
confident and say “Ennit?” as in an agreeable way and not in an asking
way; even though John is adding this as if asking for support.
“Did – did you see him?”
I would say the first “did” in a nervous way but then adjust my voice
to sound more confident in the rest of the sentence emphasizing the
“see” as it is in italics. I think the reason the writer did this was
because John wants to seem braver than he really is, but when he asks
this question, he wants to know if there actually is a threat before
he appears too nervous.
“They’ll have the guards out after him. They’ll soon catch him.”
Again, here John is reassuring himself by reassuring the group. When
Audrey states, that shooting the escapee is a “Good job”, she shows
just how confident she is and how little fear she has compared to the
rest of the group.
Angela soon starts to worry about the pram, which is obviously
precious to her; John states that it will be fine where it is.
...ow the tree “will churn down its dark boughs, smashing the house.” But the tree is so significant to their family that accepting the risk of injury is sensible.
into its English equivalent. Then he used only the first letter of the English equivalent in
when describing his father. At the beginning of the story he spoke as a child
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This gives the readers a clue that what is to happen in the upcoming text is a
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John's fascination with observing his wife can be attributed to a physician's distorted interest in the body. We can certainly speculate that, as physicians at the turn of the century were beginning to explore the female body assisted by "developments" in gynecology, John may have been equally interested in these new techniques of viewing the female body. More so than ever, the patient and her body became subject to the physician's privilege to intimately observe and diagnose her.
Parliamentary sovereignty, a core principle of the UK's constitution, essentially states that the Parliament is the ultimate legal authority, which possesses the power to create, modify or end any law. The judiciary cannot question its legislative competence, and a Parliament is not bound by former legislative provisions of earlier Parliaments. The ‘rule of law’ on the other hand, is a constitutional doctrine which primarily governs the operation of the legal system and the manner in which the powers of the state are exercised. However, since the Parliament is capable of making any law whatsoever, the concept of the rule of law poses a contradiction to the principle of parliamentary supremacy, entailing that Parliament is not bound by the Rule of Law, and it can exercise power arbitrarily.
Cases on the foundations of a constitutional order, such as parliamentary sovereignty, tend to be rare in any event. But what makes R (Jackson) v. Attorney General [2005] U.K.HL. 56; [2006] 1 A.C. 262 a significant case, is the dicta regarding constitutional issues mentioned by the judges in relation to parliamentary sovereignty. The discussions of the central issues in the case are in many ways constitutionally orthodox, treating the primary concerns as that of statutory interpretation and adopting a literal interpretation of the 1911 Act. By contrast, the discussion of the wider issues suggest that the judiciary may have support for what could be classed as unorthodox opinions on the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. The concept of parliamentary sovereignty is to be considered as a mere ideology in the eyes of the legislature, as the modern day practical sovereign parliament is far from that of the theory.
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