2 she is engaged to marry Bentham, and in act 3 Mary is rejected for her pregnancy by everyone except her mother. Jerry’s rejection of her after his protestations of love is the climax of Mary,s plot. *The plot of the ‘will’ is introduced at the end of act one, in act 2 the Boyles’ anticipation of the money displays their spendthrift vulgarity (the thought of being rich affects each character. In act 3 the will is declared invalid, leaving the Boyles worse off than they were before due to their money lending. The subplots all intersect with each other,Captain Boyle’s callous attitude to Mary’s pregnancy provokes Juno’s threat to leave. Johnny’s death precipitates her realisation that her husband is useless and that she must leave him. The will eases their relationship, but its failure bars anyescape for Johnny or for Mary. Bentham is the instrument of the will, of its failure, and of Mary’s downfall.Play 2Exploration of the form and structure of Juno and the PaycockJuno and the Paycock is a Tragi-comedy and has a simple three-act structure, with no divisions into scenes. The four linked plots follow this structure, each act marking a well defined stage in each subplot story.Play 2Exploration notes on the visual, aural and spatial elements of Juno and the Paycock Aural*O’Casey uses Dublin speech, fragments of verse and song, rhetoric and biblical language blended together to form a natural-sounding yet dramatic language.look at ‘Language)*for the actor to portray his character realistically he has to use O’caseys dialect with a Dublin accent.*At the beginning of the play to set the scene sounds of a tenement building in 1922 are reconstructed. a tape is played of children playing and crying, people yelling and screaming and the creeks of floor boards of the rooms above and beside.* there are sound effects used for the footsteps of the men coming to get Johnny...
