William Delchau
English Speech: Matthew Condon's 'The Trout Opera'
The Australian Curriculum website says:
“Texts are chosen because they are judged to have potential for enriching the lives of students, expanding the scope of their experience, and because they represent effective and interesting features of form and style.
It builds students’ knowledge about how language can be used for aesthetic ends, to create particular emotional, intellectual or philosophical effects.“
From ‘http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Literature’
The “Trout Opera” is a novel that explores many facets of modern and past Australian culture and highlights many differences and similarities between various cultures and lifestyles within Australia. The six hundred-page novel written by Matthew Condon begins in 1906 and concludes in the year 2000 at the same time as the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. The first main character of the novel is Wilfred Lampe, although this may be argued, and the second main character is Aurora Beck. There are a great deal of characters that are included in this novel and all of their stories intertwine to create a complex web that bear challenges and explore various aspects of Australian culture, as all of the characters face their own personal troubles and demons. Condon writes of Wilfred Lampe in two distinct personas and different phases of his life, one is of the younger Wilfred whom is searching for meaning and reason in his troubled, ever changing life. Condon explores various aspects of Wilfred’s upbringing and early adulthood which continually shapes the second persona of Wilfred; which is the present day, 100 year old Wilfred whom is a helpless, innocent man that we see not urging his imminent death but is willing enough for it to happen, he is a man that is taken out of his comfort zone of the rural Monaro and thrust into the heart of suburbia that is modern day Sydney.
Aurora Beck, another major character in the novel is a drug addict
The Australian Curriculum website says:
“Texts are chosen because they are judged to have potential for enriching the lives of students, expanding the scope of their experience, and because they represent effective and interesting features of form and style.
It builds students’ knowledge about how language can be used for aesthetic ends, to create particular emotional, intellectual or philosophical effects.“
From ‘http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Literature’
The “Trout Opera” is a novel that explores many facets of modern and past Australian culture and highlights many differences and similarities between various cultures and lifestyles within Australia. The six hundred-page novel written by Matthew Condon begins in 1906 and concludes in the year 2000 at the same time as the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. The first main character of the novel is Wilfred Lampe, although this may be argued, and the second main character is Aurora Beck. There are a great deal of characters that are included in this novel and all of their stories intertwine to create a complex web that bear challenges and explore various aspects of Australian culture, as all of the characters face their own personal troubles and demons. Condon writes of Wilfred Lampe in two distinct personas and different phases of his life, one is of the younger Wilfred whom is searching for meaning and reason in his troubled, ever changing life. Condon explores various aspects of Wilfred’s upbringing and early adulthood which continually shapes the second persona of Wilfred; which is the present day, 100 year old Wilfred whom is a helpless, innocent man that we see not urging his imminent death but is willing enough for it to happen, he is a man that is taken out of his comfort zone of the rural Monaro and thrust into the heart of suburbia that is modern day Sydney.
Aurora Beck, another major character in the novel is a drug addict