Punk Rock (Blog One)

Punk Rock looks into the school life for 9 Sixth-Former's, who are preparing to take their mock A-levels, whilst they go through the struggles of teenage life.

To look deeper into our characters we created a table with 5 categories, what my character says about themselves, what others say about my character, what my character says about others, facts and stage directions. We then looked through the script and filled in the table in order to find small personality factors about them, for instance William Carlisle is 17, my character, he
talks about others a lot and the things he says are observatory of the things characters say or do, which leads me to believe that he watches everyone very closely, but whenever he talks about him self he lies, and the only truthful things he says are "I'm rubbish me. I'm a waste of space. I'm not even worth the space I take up. I'm not even worth the paper I'm written on. I've got no friends. I've got no imagination. I've got no ideas." This proves that he doubts himself and has low self esteem

Looking deeper into the lines we found that William's home life is "rather ghastly" as he says in the play about Chadwick's home life, you see William lies about his parents death, when actually it is his brother who died as we find out later, but the way William talks about his parents was as if he wished they were, if you think about it a parent losing a child is heartbreaking and having another child to remind them of this could bring out the pain in a variety of ways such as smothering the child, spoiling them rotten to make up for the lost child, or it could be a constant reminder of the fact their child had died and so they don't treat their son kindly, and this is what we believe is happening with William, I also noticed that he has a weird relationship with his teacher Mr Lloyd, and I think that Lloyd is almost a parental figure in his life more than his parents.

William also has a childish side to himself, for instance he asks very personal and awkward question, like a child would because they don't know any better, also in scene two he and Lilly are talking about their lives and its almost as if they have to one up each other, Lilly says her mums a drunk and William reply's by saying his mum is dead, he then ups the anti by saying his dad is dead too, which then leads onto Lilly basically showing William her scars from self harming, which eventually leads onto her showing William how she burns her skin, this in tern is like two children in a school having an argument about who's dads bigger than who's but with more of a darker edge.

William has a lot of suppressed anger, which comes out more through out the play starting in scene two when he talks about the chavs he gets quite violent and malicious about it, i think this is because William doesn't talk to anyone about his problems, you can tell this because whenever he is with Lilly he is open about his life, whether it be lies or not, but when he is around the others he is just trying to fit in, as any young person has done.

I think that his long-term objective is to be accepted into Kings, a college he's applied for, then eventually make it to oxford or Cambridge like he says, his super objective is to be normal to settle down with some kids to be an architect and to own a house, which he says at the end of the play to the therapist, however the through-line that stops him from achieving this, is sadly the fact he kills his "friends."

In my opinion I think that William is ambitious, intelligent, hes very observant of his surrounding
, but on top of all of this he is troubled with anger and no way to express this therefore he is childish, viscous at times and has a very low confidence.