Throughout the play, Martin changes from being an immature and disrespectful child, to a respectful and responsible young man. You can see this transition at various different stages in the play. In ‘Face’, Martin is represented in another two Martin’s; present Martin, past Martin and narrative Martin. Obviously they are all different, physically and mentally. Past Martin was a really rowdy boy. He liked to pull pranks on people and also liked to boast about his popularity. This is demonstrated when he pranked the officer. “Just trying to help, Officer”. The comma in between the words ‘help’ and ‘officer’ transmits the audience a pause; therefore that implies that Martin is being sarcastic in the way that he does not consider the officer a member of authority so he shows disrespect towards him. On the other hand, present Martin is completely the opposite after his tragic car accident because …show more content…
The word ‘look’ is remarked and put in italics to be evidenced that Simon tries to rephrase what he said to make Martin feel bad about himself. As a result of this, Martin begins to become sensitive. Past Martin is different from present Martin as they are opposite in personality and look. They are contradictory in the way that past Martin is lousy and looks like an average boy, and present Martin is short-tempered but non-judgemental. However narrative Martin is the new, confident and mature boy. To attest this, here is an example. “I’ve counted since that fire burnt, the many lessons I have learnt”. The playwright uses rhyme in the words ‘burnt and ‘learnt’. The connection in between these words is that after the car accident, he understood that he can have things in an instant, but he can lose them too. What this is transmitting to the audience is that you can learn things by having experience and that people do not realise that life is