Words, Words By David Ives: Textual Analysis

The short play Words, Words, Words by David Ives concentrates on two male and one female intelligent monkeys who are caught and kept by the experimenter Dr. Rosenbaum in order to reproduce Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It focuses on three charming personalities who are easy to talk to and are capable to reasonably communicate, just like disinterested, sick and tired office associates socially interact with each other. Comedy producers Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant would bring a modern point of view at America’s corporate realities by producing Words, Words, Words. They have proved their ability to elicit laughs from audiences by creating television comedy series The Office about a typical workplace and its employees, where each …show more content…
Without being affected by the switch in genders, the performers will nevertheless establish a special tone in order to get attached to the audience. Each of monkeys embodies his or her individual type of intelligence, and each player has her unique interpretation. The play is written clearly in a comedy tone, however, the ending accent of Words, Words, Words would be determined by the producers’ presentation of the Swift’s personality. Swift is the one who acts with his open resistance to Dr. Rosenbaum’s experiment while Milton behaves as workmate and attempts to persuade him to take an advantage of the system and adapt to this situation. Representation of Swift is continually new, sometimes comic and sometimes tragic. He is unbelievably determined to succeed and get free of the cage. In contrast, Milton shows a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected. Kafka is unpractical and idealistic. She achieves in typing the same letter over and over again for several lines. Although, she brings the play to a final point by unconsciously typing the beginning phrases of