My fourth and final style model is the transcript of the play Journey's End written by R.C. Sherriff. I have chosen this primarily for it's vocabulary and style of speaking which was used during the first world war. I particularly like the way that some words spoken by characters such as Mason, are spelt the way they would sound using the dialect that he uses. It is clear from reading the play that the language in the 1910s differs greatly to the language most of us use today. To keep my monologue authentic and believable, I must make sure that I use the correct language and appropriate slangs. I have watched the film adaptation many times to gain a firmer grasp of the accents, however, as I am writing a monologue, I feel that the original transcript for the play would be of greater value as a style model.
As well as being important in helping me linguistically and phonologically, this transcript is based on the real-life experiences of the author. It mirrors 'the way he and his comrades lived and fought and re-lives some of it's incidents'. As a book first published just over ten years after the war and also written by someone who experienced the war first hand, I know that this is a credible piece of literature and I can depend on it to give me an insight to life in the trenches of the first world war.
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