Gcse drama devising ideas

So we have picked the stimulus based on a painting of a young girl picking up the rubbish on a boat, please any vague ideas, maybe symbolically of her trying to pick up her life?

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22Sarah

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Her feeling sympathy for the rubbish because she views herself as the same, could include mental health issues or family troubles.
Is the boat turbulent ? Because you could say that she’s trying to pick up her life when everything else is against her.
Feeling like she’s making decisions too quickly because society is fixed in a certain way so picking up the rubbish(things she doesn’t really want in life).
Idk just a quick brainstorm hope it helped☺️

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tamilGuy.

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Original post by stressedrabbit

So we have picked the stimulus based on a painting of a young girl picking up the rubbish on a boat, please any vague ideas, maybe symbolically of her trying to pick up her life?

Rubbish = her life
Full of life aquatic environment = family/ soc
Removing it = pulling her broken self out, isolating
Cleaning the oceans = positive = so does she view herself to be doing something positive to her family/ soc by removing herself? Why might that be?
Removing herself could actually range from picking up her broken pieces to piece up her life in a place where shell fit/ be accepted, or it could be interprered to be taking her life altogether.. Goodluck!!

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tamilGuy.

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Original post by 22Sarah

Her feeling sympathy for the rubbish because she views herself as the same, could include mental health issues or family troubles.
Is the boat turbulent ? Because you could say that she’s trying to pick up her life when everything else is against her.
Feeling like she’s making decisions too quickly because society is fixed in a certain way so picking up the rubbish(things she doesn’t really want in life).
Idk just a quick brainstorm hope it helped☺️

Ah u beat me to it! Lovely ideas there!