Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice At their best, contemporary Australian plays explore and reveal important social, political and personal issues. This is done using an extensive variety of innovative, unique and brave theatrical techniques to evoke emotion and to engage an audience. Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s “The Seven Stages of Grieving” and “Ruby Moon” by Matt Cameron are two popular Australian plays where this is very apparent. Through our studies in class, it became clear “The Seven Stages of Grieving” is a modern day play which reflects the history of Australia’s Indigenous community and the suffering of the Aboriginal people. An important, noteworthy point is that the play is ever evolving.
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) played a prominent part in reviving the Australian film industry and Don’s Party was taken to the big screen in a more profane version, including full frontal nudity and sex scenes. With discussion over the events of the story being updated to the 1975 election, it was settled that the story would remain true to the original play as it was “widely believed that Labor would lose in 1975 – which was not the case in 1969” when the story is set. Prime Minister John Gorton even makes a guest cameo in the film as a tribute to his contribution in re-establishing the Australian Film Industry. The first televised AFI awards took place the same year Don’s Party was released and took home six awards from the night including two acting awards, sound, editing, screenplay and best direction. The film grossed $871,000 in the box office with a budget of $270,000 which producer Philip Adams had raised from the Australian Film Commission as well as private
Blaming Montana for the events of one cataclysmic summer would just remove responsibility and imply that such events were acceptable in that environment. In the novel Montana 1948 there is much controversy on who or what can be blamed for such major events. The town of Montana cannot be blamed for events such as Frank Hayden’s rape of Indian girls, his murder of Marie Little Soldier or his suicide at the end of the novel with the constant decision of whether Frank should or shouldn’t be locked up for his actions. It can be argued that the characters of Montana are solely to blame but it can also be said that the town and the insane environment of Montana is at fault. The isolated and barren town of Montana cannot be blamed for such catastrophic events.
After the massacre the Commissioner of Indian affairs tried to prove they were not put in situations that forced them to rebel/ run away (refused food; starved, not provided with warm proper clothing they were promised in the treaty, driven off their lands and forced to stay confined on a reservation that wasn’t theirs). 5. Why did A Century of Dishonor strike so positive a chord among readers, including U.S
I am analysing Beneath Clouds within context to ‘Representing Australia’, and the key components relating to the text such as prejudice, racism and colonialism in Australia. In particular I will research the effects that colonialism has had on the new generation of Indigenous Australians . The text Beneath the Clouds; a journey of two teenagers in remote Australia, characters Lena and Vaughn are drawn together as their lives take the same path to Sydney. The debateable romantic relationship between the two is ambiguous, portraying an unspoken connection, with an approach toward aboriginal life, post colonialism, a colourful representation where I will also explore the effects of racism and prejudice from an adolescent standpoint. My research will focus on the
English Honors 11 23 April 2012 Steady Winds My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, follows the story of Jim Burden, as he travels from Virginia to live with his grandparents in Nebraska and starts a new life. Throughout the novel, Cather incorporates the landscape and weather into the text as a way to set the tone for the coming scenes. The vivid descriptions of the terrain help inform the author of the characters feelings and emotions through their trials and tribulations. Whether rainy and stormy, or clear and bright, Jim Burden’s experiences mirror the surrounding conditions. Young Jim Burden’s feelings of loneliness become apparent right away in the novel when he first arrives in Nebraska.
As I said this is how they gained respect and by doing this they could also gain a wife. Indians didn’t belief in dying in warfare because they thought dying in a battle was stupid as a dead brave couldn’t feed his family. However for the Americans stealing was a crime, and murders were killed or imprisoned. They thought that to be killed in a battle was an honour but to run away was cowardly. In conclusion you can see why white Americans society thought differently from the Indians society.
The way to rainy mountain focuses both on the landscape of Momaday's childhood and on his Kiowa grandmother. It is set in Oklahoma, where his ancestors migrated from western Canada. Through their contact with the crow Indians, they came to worship the sun, and an annual sun dance brought various autonomous groups of Kiowa's together for weeks of ritual. They were famous for their intricate bead work and paintings of buffalo hides which depicts their culture, religion, and history. Since signing a treaty with the United States government in the 1800's, they are trying to embrace the heritage and traditions of their ancestors.
He and his mentor, Emerson, protested the ideas of slavery and had their beliefs solely focused on the goodness of people and nature (Woodlief 3). The purpose of Thoreau going into the woods was because he believed that society and the institutions with it corrupt the purity of the individual. Though Thoreau received no national awards, he will forever be seen as the co-founder of Transcendentalism and the father of naturalism. His works are ones to look up to, as many have, either for becoming a revolutionary or learning to stray from technology and become an individual. Resources 1.
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.