Most people would say that how a politician may look is very insignificant in politics but I beg to differ. I don't think that anybody can say, hand on heart, that they've never once looked at a politician and have been slightly put off by their bad looks or subconsciously favoured the one who is better looking. Policies are obviously the most important thing when it comes to electing a new politician and party, but it is also important for the politician to have trimmed, healthy-looking hair, wear make-up (for election campaigns), suits that suit them (pardon the pun), etc. If you're a politician and you want to run for Prime Minister yet you don't take care of you're appearance, you make me laugh.
The reason I mentioned this in the first place is because B (the woman) is a newly elected prime minister with bleached blonde hair and she is deemed to be an attractive woman and from the clues I've collected in the text, she's very attractive and that's where most of her votes came from. She's an example of the point I've been trying to establish.
Here is an article I found also exploring looks in politics: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/01/mitt_romney_vs_newt_gingrich_how_much_do_looks_matter_in_presidential_politics_.html
Another theme that is quite important in the script is crimes against humanity/homocide. This whole play is the interrogation of B and as I previously mentioned, she's a newly elected and glamorous prime minister but she suddenly turns and orders her men to kill all residents of a village in Kent. 108 people were killed and 32 were under the age of ten. When I got to this part of the play, I was quite shocked because this isn't set in a country where human rights are disregarded, it is set in England where we are all entitled to human rights and mass murder is unheard of. This is in fact dictatorship, and in the play, all the men stae that she is worse than all the infamous dictators we know of such as: Hilter, Bin Laden, Sadam, Pinochet, Bush and Blair. Everybody instantly looks down upon dictators and see them as monsterous people, but when we get to the near end of the play where B explains why she did this, it makes sense and you understand why she did what she did (I'm not justifying the killings, it was still inhumane). This is also where i can hear the writer speaking her mind because B starts monologging about how people in Britain are so ungrateful for the freedom that they have and that they're greedy, lazy people who always blame others for things that had happened. They always wanted more and more but never gave anything back in return. They didn't stop to look around at all the other countries under dictatorship where all the people are beaten up, tortured or murdered for saying anything and were so ungrateful for everything that they already have. She says "When I am hanged they will embrace each other with all their might. They will appreciate everything and everyone and pray to their individual Gods to give thanks that they live in freedom and truce once again after experiencing Hell on Earth. I made England get a grip"
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