In the scene five, the characters that appear are Annie and Henry, and it is like the beginning of the first and third scene of the act one. Henry is alone in the living-room/study and Annie appears. Henry had registered the bedroom to see if Annie is involved with another man. She denies that she has cheated him with Billy and tells him that he had lost all the dignity, and he tells her that he does not believe in that, that he believed that not caring is not loving. Despite …show more content…
He is about 40 years old. At the beginning of the play, he is married with Charlotte, and they have a daughter in common, Debbie, but Henry is having an affair with Annie. When this is discovered, he starts living with Annie, and they start a relationship which is complicated by the disagree of Henry to rewrite Brodie’s play and by Annie’s infidelity. He is elitist because he rejects people that have complications when they express themselves. He suffers a really deep change during the play, because at the beginning he seemed that he did not to care about his marriage with Charlotte because they were tired of each other, and also, he did not know how to write realistic love conversations. When he starts living with Annie and all the complications begins, he learns that he has to care more about his wife, and starts asking her everything and searching in her room trying to find out something that proved her infidelity. After talking with Annie, he starts trying to accept her wife and her affair with Billy and not to caring so much because of his integrity, but Annie tells him that is not fair, and she ends her affair with Billy. At the end, they learn how to live together trusting and loving each other, and Henry learns what means love and how it could change, and knowing now how to write realistic love conversations. Almost all of the scenes are situated in …show more content…
He is 24 years old, and he is a young soldier that was captured because he was unfairly accused of vandalism. Annie defends his cause and he is object of multiple discussions between Henry and her. At the end, it is seen that Annie’s ideas were false, and all that Brodie tried to do was for impressing Annie.
One of the most important things of this play is that art imitates life and life imitates art, and this play teds to blur the lines between the fantasy of the plays and the real life. The Real Thing has a colloquial language, easy to understand, with many sarcastic comments and ironies such as when Henry tries to do a love scene in his play but he does not know how to write it in a realistic way. That becomes of one of the reasons why he discusses with his first wife Charlotte. In the fifth scene of the second act he ends up living this situation and he does not face it like his character.
There are used realistic techniques to make the language and the plot closer to the real life and Stoppard uses the resource of “a play within a play” to see different faces and ways to confront infidelity. He also uses a resource in Henry’s character: he makes Henry’s characters sound like