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    this obvious in the text‚ The Loaded Dog through creating relatable‚ distinctively visual images of mateship and humour to help us understand the need for distractions to endure the harsh Australian outback. Lawson uses more severe images in The Drovers Wife to paint a picture of the struggle to survive in the isolated Australian Bush. Conversely‚ Picasso’s Guernica parades a raw image of the destructiveness and terror of the Spanish civil war‚ enhancing our current knowledge by providing insight

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    between. After apple picking – the idea that people know that they can go that one last mile to accomplish something but they are still lazy. Nothing Gold can stay – everything that is being enjoyed today will inevitably be taken away. The Drovers wife - Addresses the issue of the hardship of women whose bravery and perseverance is unfairly overlooked. Feelings of isolation and monotony that the character experiences‚ focuses on the vivid imagery of what the bush is lacking. The bush has

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    mission homes on far islands to phase out their culture‚ setting the stage for the many complications and dramatic events in line to take motion. With the main characters of Lady Sarah Ashley‚ an English aristocrat who inherits her husband’s ranch‚ and Drover‚ the cattle driver who reluctantly aggress to join forces to protect her property‚ attempt to herd about two thousand cattle hundreds of miles across the dangerous outback (called the “Never Never”) of Australia and into Darwin. After achieving their

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    George with an arrow. Then‚ Nullah rides home on his horse to his home in Faraway Downs. He hears people coming and is scared that someone will take him away from his family‚ so he goes into hiding. However‚ the voices he hears and people he sees are Drover and Sarah. The property of Faraway Downs is Sarah’s and her husband’s. When Sarah goes into her property she finds that her husband has been killed and he is lying dead across a table. Because of this Sarah decides she wants to sell her property to

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    Henry Lawson is able to portray his image that life in the bush is not romantic. One can see this message portrayed through the short stories ‘the drovers wife’ and ‘in a dry season’. However Douglas Stewart portrays his perception of the destructive nature of mankind visually through his poems ‘wombat’ and ‘nesting time’ Firstly in Lawson’s “The drovers wife” we see how he personally views his perspective as being part of a group of people. He represents this through various language techniques and

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    including camera angles‚ audio and symbolism. Characters such as the Drover in Australia display similar qualities to Australian men‚ such as their fighting back spirit. The Drover’s theme song helps the viewer to understand the type of a character he is in the film. Australian viewers would immediately come to realise his resemblance to a bushman. The theme song’s upbeat and lively tune enters the film mostly when the Drover does a heroic act‚ for instance when he successfully droves the cattle

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    and looking‚ but we do not see what he is looking for. Also he sings and know everywhere because he don’t use map and he always sings his through any obstacles in his way. For example‚ when the scene about “the never never” that scene shows even the Drover doesn’t know everywhere in the land. He tried to stop Lady Ashley from going through because he was scared and said no one has never gone through it. But when King George came‚ he believe that they could go through because he is a witch doctor and

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    prevailed in post-Blitz London. In ‘‘The Demon Lover’’ the main character‚ Mrs. Drover‚ confuses World War II with World War I. Returning home to collect some personal belongings during the aftermath of a recent bombing‚ she thinks of her long-dead fiance to the point where the reader does not know if this is a ghost story or simply a story of one character’s neurotic mental state. The Demon Lover Summary Mrs. Kathleen Drover has returned to London from her house in the country in order to pick up some

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    Luhrmann’s attempt at the apology to the Stolen Generation. While Luhrmann makes a substantial effort at the apology‚ she seemingly looks at Australia’s hard past through rose-colored glasses. She over exaggerates the kindness and openness that Drover and Lady Sarah would have toward the Aboriginal people during this time. These softer hearted

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    HarperCollins Publishers‚ 1993. Henry Lawson. The Drover’s Wife. Australia: Text Publishing Company‚ 1998 Zhang Dong-rui “An Analysis of the Narrative line of the Drover ’s wife.” Journal of Shangqiu Teachers College 2010-08 Ma Xiaojing and Guo Jian (2011). “On Writing Techniques of an Artistically Ingenious Work——Henry Lawson ’s The Drover ’s Wife.” Science and Technology‚ 18

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