Relationship Between Environments And Characters In Tim Winton's 'Breath'
Question 1: How important is geographical location to the action of the texts on this course? Choose two novels on the course and explore the relationship between environments and the formation of plot and character.
Geographical location is a very important factor in the actions and outcomes of many texts, the development of friendships, education and the life outlook of each of the characters depend greatly on the geographical location that you have come accustomed to and it is from this that the plot and characters develop. None more prominent or contrasting then in the two novels I have studied in this course, Tim Winton’s, ‘’Breath’’ and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s, ‘’Nervous Conditions’’. The characters in both of these novels fall victim …show more content…
The main character, Bruce Pike, or Pike as he is known throughout the novel, is introduced to us as a paramedic at the start of the novel but we are then teleported back in time to see and understand Pikes coming of age. Pike is heavily influenced in his actions in regards education, pastimes and friendships by the small coastal town of Sawyer where he grew up. The second novel I studied and will be comparing and contrasting to ‘’Breath’’ For the purpose of this essay is ‘’Nervous Conditions’’ by Tsitsi Dangarembga. In this novel we are introduced to the world of Rhodesia (presently Zimbabwe), Africa, by our narrator Tambudzai, or Tambu as she is known in this novel. We are introduced to a world where women’s rights are still an issue and Tambu falls victim to the culture that she is surrounded by. We see how Tambu is also influenced in choice of friends, in her education and her actions by the geographical location that she was born in to. For the purpose of this essay I am now going to examine how geographical location impacts the plots and characters of the two texts. I will do this by comparing each geographical location and …show more content…
"A dialectic of autonomy and community: Tsitsi Dangarembga 's Nervous Conditions." Tulsa Studies in Women 's Literature 15.2 (1996): 231-240.
Brady, Veronica. "The sacred and the social extreme: Tim Winton 's Breath."." (2008): 14-15.
McWilliams, Sally. "Tsitsi Dangarembga 's Nervous Conditions: At the crossroads of feminism and post‐colonialism." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 31.1 (1991): 103-112.
Saliba, Therese. "On the Bodies of Third World Women: Cultural Impurity, Prostitution, and Other Nervous Conditions." College Literature 22.1 (1995): 131-146.
Thomas, Roie. "Inspire, Expire: Masculinity, Mortality and Meaning in Tim Winton’s Breath." Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 4.2 (2010):
Geographical location is a very important factor in the actions and outcomes of many texts, the development of friendships, education and the life outlook of each of the characters depend greatly on the geographical location that you have come accustomed to and it is from this that the plot and characters develop. None more prominent or contrasting then in the two novels I have studied in this course, Tim Winton’s, ‘’Breath’’ and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s, ‘’Nervous Conditions’’. The characters in both of these novels fall victim …show more content…
The main character, Bruce Pike, or Pike as he is known throughout the novel, is introduced to us as a paramedic at the start of the novel but we are then teleported back in time to see and understand Pikes coming of age. Pike is heavily influenced in his actions in regards education, pastimes and friendships by the small coastal town of Sawyer where he grew up. The second novel I studied and will be comparing and contrasting to ‘’Breath’’ For the purpose of this essay is ‘’Nervous Conditions’’ by Tsitsi Dangarembga. In this novel we are introduced to the world of Rhodesia (presently Zimbabwe), Africa, by our narrator Tambudzai, or Tambu as she is known in this novel. We are introduced to a world where women’s rights are still an issue and Tambu falls victim to the culture that she is surrounded by. We see how Tambu is also influenced in choice of friends, in her education and her actions by the geographical location that she was born in to. For the purpose of this essay I am now going to examine how geographical location impacts the plots and characters of the two texts. I will do this by comparing each geographical location and …show more content…
"A dialectic of autonomy and community: Tsitsi Dangarembga 's Nervous Conditions." Tulsa Studies in Women 's Literature 15.2 (1996): 231-240.
Brady, Veronica. "The sacred and the social extreme: Tim Winton 's Breath."." (2008): 14-15.
McWilliams, Sally. "Tsitsi Dangarembga 's Nervous Conditions: At the crossroads of feminism and post‐colonialism." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 31.1 (1991): 103-112.
Saliba, Therese. "On the Bodies of Third World Women: Cultural Impurity, Prostitution, and Other Nervous Conditions." College Literature 22.1 (1995): 131-146.
Thomas, Roie. "Inspire, Expire: Masculinity, Mortality and Meaning in Tim Winton’s Breath." Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 4.2 (2010):