How Brian Clark avoids Senintimentality in Whose life is it Anyway Essa

Whose life is it anyways? follows the fiction of visual modality Harrison, a man who tries to exercise a filling over his own life or death after world completely paralysed from the head down. Harrison received these horrific injuries after cosmos problematic in a car accident 4 months before the story starts. He is now in constant care within the hospitals walls being treated and cared for by the medical examination profession. The contribute centres on Harrisons decision to exercise a choice over his own life or death with the medical bureaucracy fiercely opposing. The play leads as he takes the medical staff to court to try and exercise this right officially.This play is seemingly unsentimental in which Harrison responds to his plight with wit and clarity and argues his elusion with power and persuasion. As this play focuses on peerless(prenominal)s mans wish to die and the discover of euthanasia we as the audience would expect the play to be genuinely emotional. With the storyline, Clark could have easily made this play the opposite of what it actually is, potent and fast moving. As Harrison had been though such a terrible trial by ordeal we would expect him to be full of self-importance pity and self imbecility and therefore make the play emotional and miserable.Ken is first seen in Act 1, the first impression he makes on the reader is one of a happy and untroubled man. I used to dream of situations like this lying on a bed being massaged by 2 beautiful women. This is the first of many comical references Ken makes throughout the play, this is a very strong tool that Clarke uses to avoid slovenliness in his play. It shows that Ken isnt self indulgent but rather making the shell out of his current situation. He is expressing how he feels in the form of humour. This is less emotional than s... ...as purposely avoided.To asses how successful Clarke has been in bringing this serious supply to life we first need to consider our own right to personalised choice. Clark has made it very obvious that our own personal choice mass sometimes be defied by something as small as the medical bureaucracy. However he has also showed us that with determination, wit and clarity we stool argue our right to make our own personal choice. Euthanasia is inopportune a very tragicomic issue which is normally dealt with sympathy and self indulgence, Clarke has brought this issue to life and has handled it exceptionally well, he has shown both the comical and sad sides to the debate without showing bias to any side. He has successfully avoided sentimentality in his play by using many different narrative tools such as comedy and rationality and has in the end stop the play becoming over emotional.