Essay about Tone in Drama Script

Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. Every written piece comprises a central theme or subject matter. The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the tone. The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, or cheerful, or it may be any other existing attitude. A tone can be either positive, negative or, neutral and is guven through context clues such as setting and word choice.

Tone, in a piece of literature, decides how the readers read a literary piece, and how they should feel while they are reading it. It stimulates the readers to read a piece of literature as a serious, comical, spectacular, or distressing manner. In addition, tone lends shape and life to a piece of literature because it creates a mood. Mood is how the writer wants the the reader to feel and is generated through the setting, dialog and plot. Mood can either be positive or negative and like tone can change through the writing.

Without any further do, let’s start from Amy. The writers made Amy with many negative tone in the story.

From page 1, line 4
“AMY, a fragile beaten down by the world woman in her late 20’s, sits behind a window with a sad expression.”
The words 'fragile' is the way from the author to convey about Amy's life was never tough. She has to face the world with her weakness.

From page 2, line 5
“My life's complicated.”
The words ‘complicated' is the chosen word from author to explain that Amy's life was miserable.

From page 2, line 10
“Amy slams the door shut.”
From this diction, the author try to show the other negative tone of Amy because there are mood of madness.
We moved to positive by this unpredictable woman.

 Page 4, line 15
“Well you can stay here until you remember.”
The author is explain about Amy's sympathy for George that have amnesia.

Let’s move to George's tone. In this script, George’s has the positive tone because from the dialog we know he always give support to Amy while she try to ended her life. Let’s find the diction.

From page 2, line 7
“Your eyes, have you been crying.”
This sentence show us the sympathetic of George to Amy. The author made George asking curiously what happened with her eyes.

From page 2, line 25
“George grabs Amy’s legs putting her feet on to his own shoulders.”
The author explain about George’s worries about Amy who already hang her body in the ceiling.

Now we move to the negative tone from George is about when George knocked the door of Amy's house with panic it shows condescending in negative tone words.

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