Type your response in the box. Compare and contrast the experience of reading The

The experience of listening to an audio version of The Proposal was very different from reading it. While the actors’ line deliveries didn’t affect my interpretation of the dialogue, it helped make the play more funny and entertaining. For example, take this excerpt from the play:

LOMOV: But you can see from the documents, honoured Natalya Stepanovna. Oxen Meadows, it's true, were once the subject of dispute, but now everybody knows that they are mine. There's nothing to argue about. You see, my aunt's grandmother gave the free use of these Meadows in perpetuity to the peasants of your father's grandfather, in return for which they were to make bricks for her. The peasants belonging to your father's grandfather had the free use of the Meadows for forty years, and had got into the habit of regarding them as their own, when it happened that. . .

NATALYA STEPANOVNA: No, it isn't at all like that! Both my grandfather and great-grandfather reckoned that their land extended to Burnt Marsh—which means that Oxen Meadows were ours. I don't see what there is to argue about. It's simply silly!

LOMOV: I'll show you the documents, Natalya Stepanovna!

At first, I thought Lomov and Natalya were being civil toward one another. However, in the audio version, the actors’ voices are quite high-pitched, and they speak in a somewhat exaggerated manner. So the manner in which these actors deliver the lines in the audio version helped make it more humorous. Plus, the brash manner in which these lines are delivered provides a nice contrast to the polite manner in which Natalya and Lomov greet each other when they first come face-to-face in the play.

The stage directions didn’t affect the flow of the dialogue much. Hearing the stage directions read aloud in the play helped enhance the dialogue for me. Note this example from the play:

LOMOV: Well, you see, it's like this. [Takes his arm] I've come to you, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch, to trouble you with a request. Not once or twice have I already had the privilege of applying to you for help, and you have always, so to speak... I must ask your pardon, I am getting excited. I shall drink some water, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch. [Drinks.]

The stage directions from this excerpt helped me visualize what was happening, especially since I wasn’t following along with the print version of the play as I was listening.

Explanation:

Hey

The name (i think) would be the driving system

You would need

To make sure there is fuel

to ask the person who owns the vehicle if you can drive it

to make sure the vehicle has wheels

to make sure that it isn't going to explode

to make sure its windows role down

to make sure that it has air conditioning

to make sure that there is a radio in the vehicle

to make sure there isn't a wasp in the vehicle

to  make sure there is an Old Mc Donalds nearby

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds nearby carries your favorite snack

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds nearby has your passenger's favorite snack.

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's brother's favorite snack in case wants he comes.

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's uncle's favorite snack in case wants he comes.

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's sister's favorite snack in case wants she comes.

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's other sister's favorite snack in case wants she comes.

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's whole family's favorite snacks in case they all want to come.

to make sure that there is a place for the vehicle to drive

to make sure that you know where you're going

to make sure that the vehicle won't crash

to make sure that you know how to drive the vehicle

And that is all I can think of. Wait, maybe just one more thing,

to make sure that the Old Mc Donalds has your passenger's brother's friend bill's favorite snack in case wants he comes.