3.4

Ideas and Images How are they presented and represented?

//Ruby Moon//
__The Colour Red__
 * DANGER
 * sex (red light)
 * Blood

__Night__
 * The unknown
 * Evil, death,

__The cul-de-sac__


 * Ray and Sylvie live on a dead-end street symbolising a dead-end in the mystery.
 * They can't escape from the mystery- just keeps repeating because there is no solution.
 * "It's a dead end street"

__The Ruby Doll__
 * Puzzle, symbolic of Ruby - possibly what the suspect could be doing to her (i.e.the pieces of her body)

__The Mannequin__
 * Symbol of grief, hope. hanging on and symbolises Ruby

__Curtains__
 * Symbolises secrets, closed doors, hidden truths.
 * Ray searches for Ruby behind the curtians- suggests that there are secrets behind where Ruby has disappeared to.
 * Veronica puts on a show when she opens the curtains at night.
 * The song 'Hide from the world, the curtain girl" is repeated. Suggests secrets and hidden truths about Ruby's disappearence.

__Greensleeves__


 * Creates an eerie atmosphere.
 * Challenges childhood innocence.
 * Associated with the ice-cream truck which is used several times as a possible solution to the mystery.

__The Sinister__

__Dolcie Doily__
 * The Characters**


 * Religious, superstitious
 * Older generations

__Sid Craven__
 * embodiment of paranoia and fear
 * phobia of clowns
 * Suspect - trapped and blamed

__Veronica Vale__
 * sexuality/sexualisation
 * provokes us to question Ruby's innocence
 * purpose of Veronica is to reveal Ray's sexual side leading to the idea that he may have been having an affair with her, questioning his purity/innocence.

__Sonny Jim__
 * Confronts the audience immediately with the image of him pointing a gun at Sylvie
 * Represents war/violence/paranoia
 * Typically australian war veteran

__Dawn__
 * Represents teen culture and the need to be physically attractice.
 * Self esteem and body image/self harm
 * Climatic moment of the Play when she is getting the first Ruby doll out of the suitcase

__Professor Carl Ogle__


 * Represents science/pop culture (cat and mouse)-violence in cartoons
 * he does not come to terms with loss and therefore blames the black hole for everything
 * wife left him, he is in denial as the wife was seen working at the news agent

__The Wizard__