Australia at the beginning of World War II. It is about an English aristocratic Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) known by the nickname Misses Boss throughout the movie‚ who travels to Australia to unite with her husband Maitland Ashley (Anton Monsted). Drover (Hugh Jackman) who is portrayed as stereotypical outback Australian male is sent by Maitland Ashley to bring Lady Ashley to the Faraway Downs cattle farm‚ when they arrive they are greeted by the death of Maitland Ashley. Lady Sarah Ashley becomes
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images to draw aspects that they are presenting in their texts. This helps the reader to understand and visualise the characters responses to significant aspects of life. The Author Henry Lawson uses these distinctive images in his short stories ‘The Drovers Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’ to help portray the harsh realities of living in the Australian bush. These realities create significant experiences for the individuals in his stories as they are faced with hardships‚ mateship and love. Similarly‚ John
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"It must be near mourning now’ it must be near daylight" demonstrating the emotional struggle through imagery‚ She also fought... a mad bullock" Lawson enables the audience to realistic picture of the outback. personification is emphasised in the drovers wife‚ to reflect the unpleasant nature of the landscape and the inevitability of death and life‚ " He hates snakes and killed many‚ but he will be bitten some day and die: most snake- dogs end up that way‚ represents the bitter end and harsh reality
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Drover in “The Demon Lover” arguably deals with dramatic psychological distress as she visits her abandoned home 25 years later. All three characters venture through Joseph Campbell’s monomyth in a similar yet straying manner from the original which consists of a typical hero outcome. Dorian Gray‚ Mrs. Drover‚ and the persona of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” take a downfall‚ choosing the notorious “wasteland”
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mates‚ Angus & Robertson‚ Sydney‚ 1931. Bush songs devised by ordinary‚ everyday people are a record of the people’s experiences of living‚ surviving and dying in the bush‚ as well as the colourful slang of bush life. The most famous of these bush ballads is Waltzing Matilda‚ Australia’s unofficial national song about a swagman shearer. Many songs and lyrics‚ written down for private use‚ were later assembled and published by A B (Banjo) Paterson as Old Bush Songs in the 1890s. Bush music was handed
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“Representation; refers to the way people‚ events‚ issues or subjects are presented in a text. The term implies that texts are not mirrors of the real world – they are constructions of ‘reality’. These constructions can be shaped through the writer’s use of conventions and techniques.”1 Cultural identity; “the identity of a group‚ culture or individual as far as one is influenced by one’s belonging to a group or culture.”2 The epic drama Australia‚ (2008)‚ by award-winning director Baz Luhrmann
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society in the Australian outback is presented through the literary technique of chronological listing. when the drovers wife is up all night waiting for the snake to surface vivid recollections of her previous experiences of ‘drought’ ‘fire’ ‘floods’ ‘sickness’ ‘loss’ ‘stranger danger’ and ‘isolation’ gives us an insight into the interesting distinctively visual roles placed on a drovers wife in the Australian bush. Similarly in the film “Australia” by Baz Luhrmann we are shown through interesting
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identified as Australian due to its use of the stereotypical ideas of Australian identity is Clancy of the Overflow‚ a poem by AB Banjo Paterson. This text is written from the point of view of a city-dweller who once met the title character‚ a shearer and drover‚ and now envies the imagined pleasures of Clancy’s lifestyle‚ which he compares favourably to life in "the dusty‚ dirty city" and "the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal". The title comes from the address of a letter the city-dweller sends
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ASPECTS | SIMILARITIES | DIFFERENCES | THEMES | For the short story‚ The Drover’s Wife the theme is life is precious and needs to be protected. Four innocent life would be lost if the drover’s wife fails in the duty as a protective mother.For the short story Looking for a Rain God‚ the theme is also life is precious. The moral issue on life in this story is; no one has the rights to take his or her life. Life is the gift of God and it is precious. | For the short
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loaded dog. Henry Lawson’s the drovers wife‚ explores the perspicacity of the bush heroine with the use of a narrator. The narrators’ avoidance of using a name for the drover’s wife prevents the responder being influenced by their names and instead allows the responder to judge for themselves through the actions and events that occur in the story. This also shows the responder that the hardships and struggles faced by this woman are in fact related back to all drovers’ wives. The purpose of the
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