| Sir Tom Stoppard, the early plays.8.
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| | Stoppard lifts this example straight out
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| Dogg's Our PetBefore looking at one of
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| | of Wittgenstein and puts it on stage.
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| Sir Tom Stoppard's major plays,
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| | The builder is working at a school, his
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| Travesties (1974), it is worth glancing
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| | assistant being one of the schoolboys who
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| at his short play Dogg's Our Pet (1971)
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| | have a private language of their own.
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| (Revived to support Cahoots Macbeth
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| | (The boys are public school types, and
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| 1979) in which the basic idea of
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| | the builder is working class, so they are
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| Travesties is illustrated. Although a
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| | people who 'do not speak the same
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| very short and simple play Dogg's Our Pet
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| | language in more ways than one. This
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| is a useful landmark in the evolution of
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| | social theme is not developed in this
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| Stoppard's ideas about language. His
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| | play, but is taken up again and expanded
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| interest in the way different forms of
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| | in Professional Foul).Sometimes when the
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| language have implicit meanings of their
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| | builder calls out, "plank", "brick" etc.
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| own, distinct from their content, was
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| | the appropriate items are thrown to him,
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| evident in earlier works, for example,
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| | but sometimes an unexpected item is
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| the contrast between poetry and the
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| | thrown. It is evident that the boys have
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| speaking clock in If You're Glad I'll be
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| | the same words in their vocabulary, but
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| Frank (1966), and the contrast between
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| | they use them in a different way. Hayman
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| Shakespearean and modern language in
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| | (R. Hayman: Tom Stoppard: Heinemann)
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| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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| | provides a translation: Plank = Here,
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| (1966). In these cases the different
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| | Slab = Ready, Cube = Thank you etc.The
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| languages reflected different
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| | play is essentially an entertaining
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| 'mentalities' or different approaches to
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| | puzzle to stimulate the audience into
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| life, and this is the starting point for
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| | thought about the way we use language.
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| Travesties. At the same time Stoppard has
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| | But it also has a significant meaning in
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| an interest in the philosophy of the
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| | that the boys and the builder, working
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| relationship between language and
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| | together, do actually manage to construct
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| meaning, which is the subject matter of
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| | a platform. Hence although each has a
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| Dogg's Our Pet, indicated, for example,
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| | language of his own and is therefore, to
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| by this speech of George's from Jumpers
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| | an extent, living in a world of his own,
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| (1972):'This confusion, which indicates
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| | their languages and worlds overlap enough
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| only that language is an approximation of
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| | for them to communicate and work in an
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| meaning, and not a logical symbolism for
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| | intermediary 'real world'. This is the
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| it.' (p.24.)This is the kind of problem
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| | central concept for understanding
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| Wittgenstein deals with in the first part
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| | Stoppard's major play Travesties.Read the
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| of his Philosophical Investigations, and
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| | full version of this essay at:
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| Dogg's Our Pet is virtually a
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| | Mackean runs the site which features a
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| dramatisation of the opening paragraph of
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| | substantial collection of English
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| Philosophical Investigations.Wittgenstein
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| | Literature Resources and Essays, and
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| starts by distinguishing between the
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| | where his sites on Books Made Into
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| meaning of a word, and the way a word is
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| | Movies, and Short Story Writing can also
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| used. One of the examples he uses to
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| | be found. He is the editor of The
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| illustrate his theory is a builder who is
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| | Essentials of Literature in English
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| constructing a platform and calls out to
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| | post-1914, published by Hodder Arnold.
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| his mate, "brick", "block", "plank" etc.
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