entertain and to convey their ideas. Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’‚ demonstrate these twin features. Cat Steven’s life story the ABC documentary ‘A Few Good Songs‚’ is designed to convey the idea that telling stories is a powerful catalyst for reflection on the unpredictability of life and the individual’s desire for self-fulfilment. In our prescribed text‚ ‘The Drover’s Wife’‚ by using an anonymous bush woman as his protagonist‚ Lawson extends his narrative
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Pride and Prejudice: Love and Money Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ there is a connection between money and relationships. The opening line of this book sets the tone for this by saying “it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”7 This shows that it is only socially acceptable in this society to be well off. Many women in this society who aren’t wealthy relied on finding a wealthy man that would marry them
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John Steinbeck discrimination is a huge part of several characters’ lives. Crooks is the stable buck that happens to be‚ a black man; he is told he can’t be around the other men because of the colour of his skin. Crooks states “They play cards in there‚ but I can’t play because I’m black” (Steinbeck 68). The men that live in the bunkhouse don’t let him play cards with them claiming that he is horrible at playing. Crooks is mostly avoided by the others do to the colour of his skin. When Lennie came
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Jane Austen‚ Pride & Prejudice Personal opinion: I think the narrative style of the book is very old-fashioned‚ but it is because of that I get the feeling of being in that particular time with the characters. The story is not very exciting to my opinion; because as soon as the most important characters meet each other at the first ball‚ it is very obvious they will be together at the end of the story. Several people told me the book was very boring and longwinded but I disagree. Although the
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presents a predominantly a patriarchal society during the Middle Ages. “The Wife of Bath Tale” is satiric and shows the power the Wife has. He satirizes this patriarchal society though his characterization of the Wife of Bath. The narrator describes her as a woman of means who has been married five times. The theme in her characterization and her stories ironically shows that women do have power. The feminist tale begins with the Wife of Bath telling the pilgrims about her “mastery over her [five] husband[s]
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keep reading. The narrator’s voice in The Wife’s Story affects how the reader responds to the story because of the tone the narrator uses telling her experience discovering her husband’s secret. In this story‚ Le Guin helps the reader relate to the wife and how she was married to a werewolf without knowing it. She was in love with a man‚ or that’s what she thought‚ who was so kind and others would look up
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The Character of Crooks is shown as a seemingly minor character in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”‚ however being the only black man in the novel and through all the attitudes shown towards him‚ he plays a major role in representing how ‘coloured’ men were abused and discriminated during the Depression-era by racism. Due to the racist behaviour towards him we are shown that he is the lonliest of characters. Also‚ throughout the novel we are shown different sides of him by the author to develop
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SACE STAGE 1 Bridget O’Brien Women play a central role in “The drovers Wife” by henry Lawson and the film‚ ‘Australia’ by Baz Luhrman. With references to the narrative elements and cinematic conventions‚ discuss how women were portrayed in both Genres. Both the text ‘The Drovers Wife’ and the movie ‘Australia’ focus on the independency of Australian women and the aboriginal society. In the short story "The Drover’s Wife‚" Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Throughout the novel‚ it is not the man who is seeking a spouse so much as it is Mrs. Bennet seeking suitable husbands for her older daughters. The entire novel explores the various types of love and marriage. The Bennets’ marriage is shown to be a disaster‚ with the wife playing the part of a fool and the husband retreating to live an uninvolved life in his ivory tower. In contrast
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Jane Austen introduce Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to the reader in the opening scenes? Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ published in 1813 is a novel that is acknowledged as a masterpiece. The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is famously ironic‚ “it is universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife”‚ this sentence is completely against Jane Austen’s characteristics; it states an opinion like it was fact; it’s a stereotype
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