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Things to Note: Oscar Wilde would use dialogue to critique and satirize the society of his time. He used his secondary characters to characterize his main characters (there’s a lot of “character” going on in this sentence). He was also a master at being subtly witty and humorous, so I tried to take a cue from him. I wanted to use the descriptions and dialogue of unimportant characters (except for Cassius, of course) to emphasize Katerina’s differences and foreignism. How she’s this unyielding force that does not fit well into the new land she’s been forced to inhabit. I’m also trying to be amusing.

I noticed that non-native English speakers don’t use contractions in their speech. Hence why Katerina sounds so formal all the time.

Inspired by this photograph.