Michael Gow's Away

Gwen endured many hardships during her adolescent years, prior to meeting Jim and experienced even more with Jim. At the age of eighteen, Gwen felt pressured by her parents to live a life she did not want to, and so, she made the decision to pack her bags and leave. After Jim and Gwen met, the couple experienced even more suffering together, losing their jobs, being without a home and struggling to find the money to pay for a decent meal, they were constantly afraid their lives would fall apart within a second, and they would be left with nothing. However, the couple persisted and endured the poverty in order to build a solid foundation for their family. Gwen has left Meg completely oblivious as to what she had to suffer, yet is infuriated by Meg’s unappreciative behaviour, hence why Gwen behaves so offensively and harsh towards her daughter, and so, when Meg questions what her mother has ever done for her, Gwen snaps. “Sacrificed! Gone without. Gone through hardship so what happened to us will never happen to you. So you’ll never know what we saw - never, never, never.” (Gwen, act three, scene two). Despite her negative attitudes towards her daughter, and all the criticism she gives, Gwen only wants the best for Meg and to provide her with the opportunity to become the best woman she possibly can. Meg is lucky, however, to have a father such as Jim. Jim

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In conclusion, Jack, Gwendolyn, and Cecily all escape from reality because they want to be free and be loved. Jack uses his alter-ego to detach his self from his moral obligations and obtain liberty without limitations and fears. Meanwhile, Cecily and Gwendolyn escape from reality because they want to experience love. They try to find their own Earnest that will complete their being—and through their fantasies, they are able to explore the idyllic and fearless relationship with the man that they desire.

Michael Gow’s Away is a stage play about three socioeconomically varied families and their different holiday experiences. Throughout the play, Gow alludes to many of Shakespeare’s texts to deepen the audiences’ understanding of the performance. Distinct connections are shown between Gow’s Away and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and King Lear. These references feature through direct use of lines, characters, theatrical conventions and themes. This essay will explore each of these methods of allusion and explain how this use of intertextuality heightens audience comprehension.

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development of the plot. It comes down to the point where a self-respected-man like himself

The characters’ only desires revolved around acceptance, but they could never achieve it. The constant cycle of rejection drew the characters into madness, and finally, resulted in violence. Rejection continues as a matter not easy to cope with, an obstacle similar to a vast sea of confusion and emotion, which ultimately caused these characters to transform in an immense

The novel concluded with these important final words about human beings. These final words relate to the theme of the book which is the significance of your past affects your future dreams or goals. This theme is represented by the “green light”. He explains how humans’ struggle to achieve their goals or dreams because they try to re-create the past and are unable to move beyond the past by stating “the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”. He then explains that people cannot escape their dream or goal and so they continue to move towards the green light and struggle to make their dreams come true (It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther”). The people would continue

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Peter has opened his eyes, he has seen that the world has more to show and that the has lived he’s life like in a zoo and that all people tend to live like animals unaware of their true condition and of the intensity of their lives. Although it ends with a death, the play has an important message from all the readers: instead of living in our comfort zone, we should free ourselves from the control that people have on us, we should explore ourselves. We need to find our own identity in this big and modern