I had to heighten my character’s other senses to describe the setting. For example when I was describing the chamber I enhanced my character’s sense of smell. “I know when meat is rotting. The pungent aroma of decay lingered in the room, stinging my blind eyes.” Not only by using field specific lexis s uch as ‘rotting’ and ‘stinging’ it assisted in increasing the audiences intrigue to the blind character as they would understand his point of view a bit clearer.
My character talks to his wife as it creates a sense of pathos and compassion towards the characters. During the monologue the wife does not speak as I wanted to show her emotion and thoughts through paralinguistic features in the stage directions. "The woman raises a trembling hand, wiping away a tear." The verb ‘trembling’ emphasised that back channel responses do not always mean to speak to show your