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.
Doug’s response to setting his mother’s cats on fire was ‘It was the fault of the psychiatrist...he told me I had an unresolved problem with my mother... and I better fix it’. Julie’s brief monologue in Act One also helps the audience to better understand her character and why she came to be in the institution; ‘twelve hours later that woman was still there, minus a few curls, if that. She hadn’t moved. Too scared I was going to snip everything except her hair’. The final monologue (spoken by Lewis) at the end of the play summarises the future of the patients, Nowra is able to comment on how bad things happen to good people simply because they are given the title of being ‘mad’.
Her rumination of the past reminds her of her youth in China and how her life had changed from then to now living in Wilding, Canada. Gum-May is left feeling empty and alone while remembering only to cast these emotions aside with bitterness and anger feeling that “they’re useless”. The announcement of marriage “demolished” her when she was sixteen, Gum-May couldn’t see herself “surrendering” her body to her husband. But, the pride of filial accomplishment only made her remember the shame she brought from being a daughter in a son-less family. She describes her wedding to Gordon.
Mammy, Laila’s mother, has the upper hand over her father, Babi, who just listens as he is getting “fussed” at. The two show that their marriage is no longer good and mammy shows he dislike for him. Laila is held at gunpoint. Chapter 17 The gun turns out to be a water gun. Laila describes the sometimey relationship she has with her mother; Laila expresses her emotions about Mammy and how she truly feels when it comes to living in the house and Mammy’s opinion of her.
Based on real accounts of her upbringing, Larissa Behrendt’s novel Home is about the impact of Australia’s stolen generation era. Panned over 3 generations of a family, ripped apart by the governments polices, the novel opens your eyes to see how tragic the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes really was. The story following 3 families starts off with aboriginal teenager Garibooli. Garibooli is taken from her family by the police and is sent to become a servant under the wealthy Grainger and Lydia Howard. She was told by the welfare worker Mrs Carlyle that her family no longer wanted her.
“THE BLUEST EYE” (TONI MORISSON) SUMMARY : SECTION I Claudia the narrator of the novel describes her home life with his mother and her sister Frieda, and some of events of the fall of 1939. They have small house, and their relationship in family is poor but loving. It is shown when Claudia becomes sick, her illness is treated with a mixture of concern and anger. Her mother treated her harshly and complain about to clean up her puke, but at the same time, her mother makes sure that Claudia is in the bed, and she gives her a medicine and checks up about her condition throughout the night. Two significant visitors come to stay at the Claudia house: Mr. Henry, as a rent-paying boarder, and Pecola Breedlove, as a girl who has been temporarily taken into custody by the state.
From her ‘in-between’, Susie observes the trauma on her family and the horrific crimes of her pedophile murderer. The movie begins by showing what the family was like prior to the tragedy. It portrays the personality, youthful enthusiasm, dreams and hopes of Susie, as well as the idyllic and loving family. Susie’s mother, Abigail (Rachel Weisz), was a warm and capable homemaker; while her father, Jack (Mark Wahlberg) was a nerdy accountant who has soft spot for Susie. Most parents say that they
Conversely, Peter, an Australian Navy man gives the reader the impression that he accepts his fate as he carries on with his day-to-day tasks while simultaneously preparing his family for the end. I would like to see Peter’s resolve and his wife’s obsessive tendencies carry over into the film version. Peter’s strength of character provides a good balance to his wife’s neurotic behavior. While Mary painstakingly tends to her garden and plans for her family’s future, Peter tries to be loving and supportive yet he silently harbors a sexist animosity towards his wife caused by her refusal to learn of the cyanide pills. Moria Davidson and Dwight Towers are also two essential characters in the story.
Sadly their mother Corrine facing financial destitution has no other option than to agree to her children been locked in the attic of her parents home away from society. The children were often informed as sins and children on the devil because there mum ran away and settled down starting a family with her uncle. The kids were forced to live in a 2 bedroom suit with a bathroom attached. With one meal a day the kids are losing enthuse and are desperately growing confused, Corrine decided’s to inform the kids about the secret door in the closet that leads to the attic. She wants Cathy and Chris to take care of the two young ones and turn the dusty old room into a secret get away for them.
"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing." (Salinger, 1). Muriel neglects her husband's problems and needs. It seems like she cares for him when she is talking with her mother in the first scene but she repeatedly dismissed her mothers worry for him and herself. He thinks his only hope is to escape-permanently.