Under milk wood is a radio play written by Dylan Thomas, it tells the story of a day in the life of a small town called Llareggub.
The play is set in the 1950’s, and it has two narrators, called Voice 1 and Voice 2, which act as dramatic devices and move the play along in space and time.
The Voices give poetry to the play by giving the listener Thomas’s view of the town. The two voices are Thomas’s opportunity to act as a guide to Llareggub. He uses the Voices throughout the play, the first Voice starts and ends the play, the characters seem to interact with the voices, and for example the characters often finish off lines that the voices started. One example of this is in the introduction of Mr Pugh, the retired school teacher.
First voice: “Mr Pugh”
Mr Pugh: “remembers ground glass as he juggles his omelette”
It does the same thing further down the page when it says,
First Voice: “Mrs Pugh”
Mrs Pugh: “nags the salt cellar”
The Voices also build a relationship with the......
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