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And she has been distanced from her husband.

Personally her (Lucy) life is not happy because she is loneliness and all of the loaded of the household action. Firstly, she regards Rosemary and Terry as the kids and secondly she wishes for their prosperity and well-being. The expression blooming-kids shows two things at the same time. Moreover, she wishes for their happiness. She shows the love and affectionate behavior towards her neighbours for Terry and Rosemary. Lucy presents herself as the mother figure through the care and affection. This type of language used in this play what shows is that Lucy is a major character and sign of ‘Mother Figure’. The dialogues are comparatively shorter and simpler which can be used by children. She speaks the language that the mothers use while dealing with the children. The expressions like choccy bics, Georgie porgie pudding and pie, botty, tooth pegs are the examples of the child-based language. The language used by Lucy is limited to baby talk. Her motherly role can be justified in the following points: The central character of this play is Lucy who has been presented as mother figure of this play. In this sense, this play maintains the unity of time, place and action. All the activities move around that call. The play is based on the single event, that is, the topic of husband’s phone call. This one act play is set on a suburban room in the late evening. The present play ‘Mother Figure’ includes the picture of a mother who deliberately isolates herself from the outside world and can only communicate through the language of infancy: and the marries couple who are also moving into isolation from each other. As a dramatist, Ayckbourn is essentially a chronicler and editor of human behavior. He spent his early days studying and observing examples of the ‘well made play’ as well as acknowledged both ancient and modern pieces of drama, believes that a playwright is essentially grafts-man. Mother Figure is a drama which is written by the American dramatist, Alan Ayckbourn. Critically analyze the drama ‘Mother Figure’.

The dumb waiter harold pinter pdf editor