, because so few plays have narration. Dialects establish, to the audience, a character’s class, or rank, as well as the time and place of the play. The use of dialect in plays seems more obvious when we compare plays, such as A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Importance of Being Ernest.Words are the building blocks or our language, besides letters. When words are strung together into sentences, and into stories, wonderful things occur. We wouldn’t have Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, and others. Without words, we would still be back with the cavemen, trying to communicate by grunts and movements. Language certainly is Man’s greatest development....
