CHARACTER

For my characters i have made them quite similar in some ways they share characteristics and this is how i have connected the two. When we were asked to create our factory working i already knew i was playing henry so this gave me an idea into what my factory worker  would be like. i immediately found my character to be cold and isolated from the other workers she went there to work and thats it not to make friends. She has respect from everyone in the factory they know not to get on the wrong side of her. when the telegraph arrives she is not responsive and just ignores it completely but inside she is in a lot of pain.

FACTORY WORKER:

NAME: Elizabeth Thompson

 AGE: 43                                 

         OCCUPATION : Factory worker 

            FAMILY : Husband and son at war

       BACKGROUND: Middle class,

lives with her sister and sisters

husband, her husband and her son. 

she is saving up for when her son

gets back from the war so she can put

him into a good school. she has been married

for 23 years.

PERSONALITY: 

Strong

hardworking

empathetic

loving (to those she's close with)

loyal 

straight talking 

careering mother

HENRY V

(taken from http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/henryv/canalysis.html internet summary)

Though a substantial number of scenes focus on other characters, Henry directly initiates nearly all of the significant action in the play, and he is without question the play’s protagonist and hero. Henry is an extraordinary figure who possesses a degree of intelligence and charisma only briefly glimpsed in Shakespeare’s twoHenry IV plays. There Henry V appears as a pleasure-seeking teenage prince who wrestles with his role as an heir to the throne.

I myself, have taken my character and interpreted him in my own way, he is a strong character and he is intelligent and determined, and in my section the last scenes, he shows the audience two sides to him. He celebrates the war and his overall win and shows his more aggressive side, but as he speaks to Catharine he shows a softer and more gentle side. 

My challenge now is too become this character of henry but also have in the back of my head that i am this factory worker Elisabeth.