EASY ON THE RELISH :: English Literature

EASY ON THE RELISHThe two characters I have chosen to write about, asunder from Tofler,are Ray and Brian. The reason for my choice is that both of thesecharacters play a large and significant part in the play, particularlyRay. They compliment each former(a) because, Brian is serious, whereas Rayis carefree and has a sense of humor.RAY is 18 years of age and was a butchers apprentice, until he losthis job. He is a cockney, fairly well built and a jack-the-lad type ofcharacter, who no one pushes around. He detests rules and regulations.In Act One, Scene 1 he says, No skunk in the locker room. What isthis, bleadin Alcatraz?Despite his objection to working in a burger bar instead of anorganization that sells real meat not donkey flavoured camel turds,his overlook of education gives him no option than to work at Binders. Anexample to support this theory is in Act Two, Scene 3 during aconversation with Kishori. Well, Im not sayin Im not pissed off,cos I am. But no sense in causin a ruck us. I mean, I need the money.Ill take money from anyone. Yanks included.Ray is withal a male chauvinist. In Act Three, Scene 1 he proves thisbecause he has second thoughts about joining a union, as suggested byKishori, when he says to Francis Well shes a bird. Further into theconversation he continues his reasons saying A bit of skirt stirringit up like that. Mens work, unions. Always has been.Ray is a racist. At the beginning of the play in Act One, Scene 1 heobjects to wearing the hats provided as part of Bunter uniform andsays that the hat reminded him of a fez. Im not wearin no gypo gear,gainst my trust. His racist attitude if further unornamented in ActThree, Scene 1. He not only objects to Kishori because she is a womantelling him what to do, but also because she is of ethnic origin andcalled her a Paki bird.Ray is a generally likeable but ignorant character, who is not verybright and whose lack of education is evident because of his poor useof English language and grammar . He is easily led into situationswithout thinking out the consequences first and generally likes to gowith the flow of things. However, he appears anxious(p) that Brian isalso keen to join the union and picket the burger bar which suggeststhat he is not as confident as he would like those around him to desire and feels more self assured with Brians support.