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Other more distinct relationships between women strengthen the importance of female interaction. In the Grimms’ The Robber Bridegroom (1857), the Bluebeard figures makes use of an old woman as a conspirator in their murders. After warning the heroine about the situation, this woman helps her escape by distracting the robbers, putting their trust in her (thus, her life) in danger. Similarly, the heroine in Fitcher’s Bird puts her life at risk by resurrecting and planning her sisters’ trip back home. Therefore, the story’s obstacle does not lie in disproportionate female curiosity or disobedience but in not getting caught by the murderer .

During the World War II era, the outlook on the role of women in Australian society revolutionised. As a majority of men were at war, Australian women were encouraged to rise above and beyond their stereotypical ‘housewife’ status. They were required to take on the tasks that were once considered predominantly male roles, and also allowed the opportunity to join the armed services as well as enlist in the Women’s Land Army. Many women who doubted their abilities played their part by entering voluntary work. Women had the privilege of contributing in Australian society in many ways that they had never been able before. Thus, it is manifest that the role of women in Australian society had drastically changed.

Australia is filled with many different aspects in which makes it the country it is today. I believe it is important to study texts that explore aspects of Australia by studying texts such as ‘The Club’, by David Williamson, a play written in 1977 about an Australian football club and movies such as “The Castle”, directed by Rob Stitch in 1997, about the daily life of an Australian family when their happiness is threatened when developers attempt to buy their house to expand the neighboring airport. Both these texts show us what Australian life was like in the past. By us looking at themes such as language, tradition and the mateship shown we are able to explore different aspects of Australia that make it what it is today.

Nowadays, freedom is a fundamental right for each man and woman, but it is not a perfect concept. When one’s freedom is endangered, he can do unimaginable things, especially when love is at stake or can react weirdly when he acquires it. It’s exactly what Kate Chopin, a female American author during the 19th century, did when she treated about women’s conditions in the short-story Story of an Hour in 1894, where a woman falsely learns about his husband’s death. Almost 60 years later, Roald Dahl wrote Lamb To The Slaughter, set in Great Britain, where a woman kills her husband and hide the evidences cleverly. These two short stories are not only comparative on the two female protagonists and the imagery used, but also on the main themes

Readers often find Katharine Susannah Prichard’s “The Cooboo” deeply unsettling. The narrative is set in Australia during the European settlement of the continent. The plot revolves around an Aboriginal woman named Rose who is renowned amongst her peers for being an excellent cattle driver. She was so good, that her white bosses even held her skills higher than the other white musterers of the day. This all changed, once she became in the possession of a Cooboo. This term Cooboo is slang for the sound that an infant makes, and had become synonymous with the word for baby. Rose now had this Cooboo to worry about and care for, and it was hurting her efficiency and ability to drive cattle. This was deeply frustrating for her, because she found her identity in her ability to cattle muster. In the story, she was reprimanded by her superior for letting the cattle mob break three times in one day. She used to be his best, but now his go to girl is Minni, who Rose thought “did not ride or track nearly as well as Rose” (Prichard 17). Minni was very pleased with her own performance that day, and was “jabbering of the tobacco she would get” (Prichard 26). Rose was also being ridiculed by all the men, and her and Minni’s man Wongana had called her “a hen who did not know where she laid her eggs” (Prichard 25). This was maddening to Rose, who reasoned that the baby could be blamed for all of her current struggles. While riding back with Minni, Rose took the Cooboo from her breast and

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

Australian women prior to World War One lived a life that consisted of traditional female roles similar to those of their British and Irish relatives. Their value in society was based on their ability to bear and raise children and maintain a home and they were dependent on the financial support of their husbands. Families of 10 or 12 children were common in this era and daily home life was described as ¡§labour intensive.¡¨

Gwen Harwood’s poetry is very powerful for its ability to question the social conventions of its time, positioning the reader to see things in new ways. During the 1960’s, a wave of feminism swept across Australian society, challenging the dominant patriarchal ideologies of the time. Gwen Harwood’s poems ‘Burning Sappho’ and ‘Suburban Sonnet’ are two texts that challenge the dominant image of the happy, gentle, but ultimately subservient housewife. Instead, ‘Burning Sappho’ is powerful in constructing the mother as violent to reject the restraints placed on her by society, whilst Suburban Sonnet addresses the mental impact of the female gender’s confinement to the maternal and domestic sphere. Harwood employs a range of language and

Men as a whole are known to be less compassionate and sensitive than women. The example used in the story is of course an extreme case- in reality even the most masculine of characters would not likely leave a dead body in the river close by for days and even wash their dishes next to it without calling on the proper authorities to help.

Australia’s identity has always been a complicated one. Starting with Aboriginal genocide, 1800’s cowboys and villains, two world wars and a bunch of poems describing them, it makes it difficult to conclude on what being an ‘Aussie’ really is. Thankfully, the two thought-provoking poems Nobody Calls Me a Wog Anymore by Komninos Zervos, and My Country by Dorothea Mackellar both use their discerning selection of themes to reflect modern attitudes in some extent. Along with their themes, Nobody Calls Me a Wog Anymore and My Country both use their story to capture the attributes modern Australians possess to some degree.

The legend of the bush, was a status figure which had been connected to Australia through literature by writers such as Banjo Paterson. He had a big influence when it comes to the identity and nationalism, which is present in today society. This could be because of the creations that he had created, which were then connected to him, which was when his career was then established. It was the poems such as “Clancy of the overs flow” and also “The Man from Snowy River ” that were structured and then somehow aimed towards the road to the Federation of Australia.

There are three women shown on the cards, Lizzie Borden, Amy Fisher and the film’s fictional ‘Black Widow’, each of whom committed a violent crime at odds with ‘the public perception of physical violence [as] a masculine form of aggression’. That for the two boys these women’s value lies in their violent acts is also transgressive of expectations for girls to fulfil role of care and

The visual in Henry Lawson’s stories are distinctive and portrays the vast connection between human experience through isolation and a self- realisation of the lifestyles in the outback. Henry Lawson “In a dry season” and “the drover’s wife”, convey the universal necessity of adversity, and significance of relationships. The drover's wife contains elements of loneliness and the complete fear of obstacles, through a bush mother consistently protecting her children form the harm of the country. In a dry season Lawson demonstrate descriptive style to assure the reader the outback is a struggle and uninviting for any life style creating an image of the reality of different environments and our view points.

Mrs. Hale is the wife of the farmer Lewis Hale, and is first introduced as walking onto the scene next to the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Peters is a slighter and wirier woman compared to Mrs. Hale, who would be considered a more ‘comfortable’ woman if not under these somber circumstances. (Trifles, pg. 16) These physical descriptions set out can give readers a small insight on the lifestyles and socio-economic conditions on to which these two women differentiate, one a humble farmers wife, the other an upright sheriff’s wife. As the scene unfolds, there is an immediate sense of resentment conveyed, which is shown by the condescension shown to her by the men in general and in particular because of her gender and domestic occupation of being the neighboring farmers wife.

For example, the film subtly touches on the different attitudes toward women’s suffrage during a lunch scene at the Schlegel household. In the scene, Mrs. Wilcox responds to a pro-suffrage comment, by saying that, from her point of view, it would not be desirable to vote because of the responsibility associated with such decisionmaking. Her rationale illustrates the conservative attitude that important decisions on matters concerning issues outside of the house should be left up to men, specifically rich men like her husband. The scandal regarding Helen’s pregnancy also shows the 19th century’s influence beyond the turn of the century. While the situation would still warrant a harsh reaction in the 20th and 21st centuries, the instant justified desire to seek justice by way of murder helps to show the lack of sexual freedom at the time and the chivalrous expectation of men. The especially fascinating aspect of this scenario is that it was Charles Wilcox, a character who does not have a significant connection to Helen, that ultimately seeks out justice and avenges Helen’s honor as a