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Fifth Business. The Opera Metaphor. The Opera Metaphor. Who plays the following roles? Why? Prima Donna : always a soprano, always a heroine, often a fool Tenor : the hero, always plays lover to the heroine Contralto : a confidante, rival to the soprano or sometimes a sorceress
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Fifth Business The Opera Metaphor
The Opera Metaphor • Who plays the following roles? Why? • Prima Donna: always a soprano, always a heroine, often a fool • Tenor: the hero, always plays lover to the heroine • Contralto: a confidante, rival to the soprano or sometimes a sorceress • Basso: the villain, the rival who threatens the tenor
Title: How does Dunny fulfill the role of Fifth Business? Carl Jung
Liesl asks Dunny “Are you Fifth Business? You had better find out.”
Neither hero, heroine, confidante nor villain • Essential to bring about the recognition, the revelation, the understanding of the story’s outcome • The baritone • The odd man out, the person who has no opposite of the other sex • Knows the secret of the hero’s birth • Comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost • Keeps the hermitess in her cell • May be the cause of someone’s death • Those who play it sometimes have a career that outlasts the golden voices.