Fiction+-+Writing

 · Some characters create a fictional life in order to allow them to escape from reality – some becomes real. · Algernone suggests that reading can sometimes cause people to perceive things morally wrong · Diary symbolises intelligence · Cecily keeps a diary about her life because she believes that recording something which is not real can make it seem factual and valid, given the fact that it is something that has been written down. Cecily: "It usually chronicles about things that have never happened, and couldn't possibly have happened." · Fiction is more important to Miss Prism than the baby – she misunderstood the baby for the manuscript at the train station   · Algernone: “More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.” · Algernone: “Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!” · Algernone: “You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.” · Stage direction: "Cecily begins to write in her diary"  · Cecily: "I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should probably forget all about them." · Cecily: “I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.” · Miss Prism: "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means." · <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Miss Prism: “The manuscript was unfortunately abandoned.”
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Pg30 CHASUBLE: " spoke metaphorically. - My metaphor was drawn from bees.

Pg40 CECILY: (to Algernon) If you will allow me, I will copy your remarks into my diary. [//Goes over to table and begins writing in diary.//]

Pg40 CECILY: Oh no. [//Puts her hand over it.//] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication.

Pg40 CECILY: Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.