The Wild Duck #3

"Visual action can be as important on the stage as speech." How far do you agree with this claim? In your answer you should refer to two or three plays you have studied.

Visual action is very important, as important, as speech. Without it, we could never fully scope the amount of emotion a character is going through. For example, when Oedipus finds out he married his mother and killed his father he "Rushed through the doors with a great cry" (232).

This action shows us the amount of pain and shame he is in, as oppose to him just screaming.

In The Wild Duck, I feel as though it isn't important currently where we are in the book. But some notable actions are when Hjalmar avoids his father, Old Edkar, when his father had come by the Werle house to make copies. This indicates that Hjalmar is ashamed to be dining at a house whose owner destroyed his fathers reputation and doesn't want his father to see even though Edkar already knew Hjalmar was supposed to be there.