two Australian composers‚ Henry Lawson and Russel Dyrysdale effectively convey two powerful yet contrasting images of characters and the way the environment can inpact their sense of isolation and hardship in there respective composition of the same title ‘The Drovers Wife’ . The different forms allow each of the composers to create an intensly visual experience for the responder and encourage a sense of personal connection to the subject. The techniques used by Lawson including‚ powerful textual
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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 and
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Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife is a story about a Drover’s wife who has been living alone with her children for time to time which has lead to her being a rough manly woman and her experience at home with the children and the dangerous life style she lives. Henry Lawson has concentrated on the farmer section of the Australian society in this short story. The place the story is taken in is outback Australia in the bushes‚ it is a very deserted area with no other family or houses anywhere
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Henry Lawson’s collection of short stories uses techniques such as humour and imagery to convey his message to the responder‚ he is known for his talented writing and truthfulness. Texts such as the drover’s wife and the loaded dog convey this. Other texts also use similar techniques to covey there idea’s including an anonymous tale ‘Bold Jack Donahoe’ and Barbara Baynton’s ‘The chosen Vessel’. ‘The Drovers Wife’ is a tale of an unnamed woman‚ the drover’s wife‚ who is alone with her children
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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 beyond
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narrative techniques to establish a setting and shape the characters personality. This is shown in Henry Lawson’s short stories the drover’s wife and the loaded dog as well as Roger hargreaves picture book little miss sunshine. 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
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Throughout history the Australian identity and its associated values have been represented through distinctively visual language. Henry Lawson uses many evocative and powerful language techniques to convey his thoughts and feelings. This is clearly shown in “the drovers wife” and “in a dry season”. Other narratives also utilise the many language techniques to convey the distinctively visual image and is shown in “the man from Snowy River” by Banjo Patterson. All three texts reveal both positive and
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In the short story “The Drover’s Wife‚” Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery and perseverance is unfairly overlooked. It is often the men who receive all the glory while the women suffer silently in the background. In this story‚ Lawson sheds light on the life of one of these heroic women as she struggles to keep her children safe in the Australian bush. The vivid imagery of the environment creates feelings of isolation and monotony that the main character
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My current Year 12 class has been collaborating on an essay response to a previous HSC question for Standard Module A: Experience through Language – Distinctively Visual. We have been working with the short stories of Henry Lawson. Here is the near finished response – some paragraphs still need work. In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual? Make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least one other related text of your own choice
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this is cool‚lie: In a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here? Lewis: …She hates talk about love. She thinks its icky. ‘Love is the last gasp of the bourgeois romanticism’ she says. She hates me doing an opera about love and fidelity while thousands of Vietnamese are being killed by America troops. Julie: I don’t like men’s double standards‚ I guess. Men want women to deceive them because it’ll prove their worst thoughts about women… Julie: My parents had me committed. They think its sort of like a holiday
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