Drovers Wife Essay Example
Comparing the female characters in the short stories The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson and The Chosen Vessel by Barbara Baynton.
• Brief biography of Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton. • The Drover's wife was published in the Bulletin in 1892 and The Chosen Vessel in 1896. • From the 1900s to the onset of WW1, pioneers made their homes in the dangerous outback of Australia. • Pioneering women are left alone to encounter the scourge of nature ( examples). The women became principal caregivers to sick travelers. • Most of these women rose to the challenge and endured the incredible hardship of life in the outback. • Brief summary of both stories. The Drovers Wife revolves around the hardship and bravery of a bush woman who lives with her 4 children and snake dog. The Chosen Vessel is about a bush woman who is left alone and one day, she encounters a swagman who rapes and murders her. • The themes for both stories are similar - loneliness of being in the bush and battling an enemy to save their children and themselves. • The drover's wife fights through many battles during her husband's absence. She suffered several hardships. • The woman in "The Chosen Vessel" is also left alone to care for her young child when faced with dangers. • In "The Drover's Wife" the enemy is the five-foot long poisonous snake. The snake that the woman battles against is a representative of her enemy which is the bush. Throughout her whole life, she has been battling against nature. • The enemy in "The Chosen Vessel" is the swagman. The woman is fighting against man, her husband and the swagman. • The ways in which both the women approach the dangers they are faced with are different. • The drover's wife attacks and faces her problems whereas the woman in " The Chosen Vessel" hides from hers. • The lies in which each women tells the swagmen they come across demonstrates their different characters. • Both the women have different respects and
• Brief biography of Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton. • The Drover's wife was published in the Bulletin in 1892 and The Chosen Vessel in 1896. • From the 1900s to the onset of WW1, pioneers made their homes in the dangerous outback of Australia. • Pioneering women are left alone to encounter the scourge of nature ( examples). The women became principal caregivers to sick travelers. • Most of these women rose to the challenge and endured the incredible hardship of life in the outback. • Brief summary of both stories. The Drovers Wife revolves around the hardship and bravery of a bush woman who lives with her 4 children and snake dog. The Chosen Vessel is about a bush woman who is left alone and one day, she encounters a swagman who rapes and murders her. • The themes for both stories are similar - loneliness of being in the bush and battling an enemy to save their children and themselves. • The drover's wife fights through many battles during her husband's absence. She suffered several hardships. • The woman in "The Chosen Vessel" is also left alone to care for her young child when faced with dangers. • In "The Drover's Wife" the enemy is the five-foot long poisonous snake. The snake that the woman battles against is a representative of her enemy which is the bush. Throughout her whole life, she has been battling against nature. • The enemy in "The Chosen Vessel" is the swagman. The woman is fighting against man, her husband and the swagman. • The ways in which both the women approach the dangers they are faced with are different. • The drover's wife attacks and faces her problems whereas the woman in " The Chosen Vessel" hides from hers. • The lies in which each women tells the swagmen they come across demonstrates their different characters. • Both the women have different respects and