What would you feel? Ladies and gentlemen the discovery of loss is confronting as it forces the responders to reassess all the prejudices. It is this discovery of loss that allows the Zeitgeist of discrimination to be changed. Noonuccal’s poem the “The municipal gum” confronts the 1960s responders of segregating the natural environment from the Indigenous people. Through this confrontation Noonuccal force them to discover the loss of land to the industrialisation which ultimately changes the moral toward the aboriginal community.
On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving." Brown's use of words depict a picture of a land that destroyed. You can also imply that he is resentful towards the white hunters who caused for the land to be desolate. There appears to be no hope in the land and the words create a sense of bitterness. His forlorn diction allows the reader to envision a land that is dead and no more.
This demonstrates a huge cultural divide between him and the World State Society. Since Bernard and Lenina see the tribal ritual as disgusting, John becomes the central character of the novel. Being rejected by both the Indians, and the
This is one of the reasons for his mental break down. Holden sees the world as corrupt and wants to protect the children’s innocence. Holden cannot find a place for himself in the world. All of this leads to his downfall, consisting of his parents abandoning him, him not fitting in, and nobody wanting to be around him. A symbol from this novel is Holden’s red hunting hat.
Heart of Darkness Theme Essay: Race In Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Marlow is shocked to see mans inhumanity to man from how he and his men treat or call the natives. And the mission of “civilizing” and “enlightening” native people because they are to savage for salvation. Also the divide of races of black and white adds to the themes that Conrad uses of light and darkness, good and evil. The use of white as good and black as evil is challenged when we view it through the theme of race. “A lot of people, mostly black and naked, moved about like ants.” Conrad's statement shows that the person (either Marlow or narrator) see the natives as tiny little insects.
Throughout this poem, the use of creative poetic techniques help the author to describe how the greed of the “…white man” has destroyed their native land and how the connection that the Indigenous Australians once had with their nature and surroundings, is now lost. This makes the reader feel irate and annoyed towards the ‘white’ race that destroyed everything they had. Like many indigenous writers, there’s always a deeper meaning behind their words. Such is an example with the amazing metaphor, "the white system of life, it cuts like a knife". This infers that for the aborigines, having another culture coming in and trying to get rid of their way of life “cuts like a knife”, meaning it starts hurting more and more the deeper it goes, and the wound will heal but the scars (memories) will always remain.
There also seems to be a conflict going on within himself. After hearing the news of the approval Sergeant Mulcahy strips the shirt off of Trip exposing his scars on his back from previous floggings following this Trip pulls the rest of his shirt off with angst and a facial expression of pure disgust for what the Colonel is doing. A slow dismal soundtrack starts at this point directing the emotions for the scene. A number of close ups start here to show emotion and expression on the faces of the two men. Trip chooses to fixate on Colonel Shaw and show no emotion but one single tear as Colonel Robert show looks on with a stern but also questioning look on his face.
In his essay "Inconsolable Darkness" John Gianvito writes: "It (Gothic) a venturing into a world created by ones own fears and desires, in a state of enthrallment both seductive and destructive (47)". Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining tells the story of a character who is thrust into a Gothic world in which his own fears and desires turn him into a monstrous figure, isolated from both his family and reality. Through use of Gothic narrative elements as well as art direction, cinematography and character development The Shining paints a portrait of someone who is driven to acts of destruction through isolationism. Gianvito further writes: "What has been supplanted in contemporary manifestations of the Gothic is the requirement to be transported, either geographically, as across some mountainous divide in Transylvanian mists, or psychologically, via descent into the imagination of a neurotic sensibility (48)". The opening sequence of The Shining involves a series of shots of the main character Jack Torrance and his family driving in their car through a mountainous landscape.
Section A – ‘The suffering of marginalised characters in No Sugar stems not only from physical hardships but from the lack autonomy in their day-to-day lives.’ Discuss. No Sugar by Jack Davis depicts how the Indigenous characters of the play suffer at the behest of racism, inequality, abuse and assimilation forced upon them by the white authority. The pain and suffering also stems from their lack of personal freedom and is shown by Davis throughout the play. Davis portrays the displacement and inequality forced upon the Indigenous characters. The white audience is exposed to the hypocrisy that Mr Neal and Sergeant Carrol can drink but Sam and Jimmy are not allowed and are thrown in ‘the lock up’ for doing so.
The fact that the baby died, with the fact that Paul's farming land was ripped up, and everything involved in his farming life was ruined, made the ending pessimistic. This is because more tragic issues are