AWAY TEXT RESPONSE ‘While we unburdened crawl towards death’ says tom in the final page of Michael Gow’s play Away. This reference from Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of the many techniques that Gow uses to express the theme of reconciliation, the quotation from King Lear shows that Tom has reconciled with his fate and learns to continue through his life ‘unburdened’ towards his inevitable fate. Like Tom, the rest of the characters must deal with the same theme of reconciliation throughout the play, although not to the same extent of accepting their death. So in this essay the theme of reconciliation within Away will be explored in terms of how Gow uses techniques such as Characterisation, symbolism and production elements to express the theme of reconciliation within the play.
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One. My position at school I can’t go on turning up at school functions with you if you’re going to going to behave like a ghost, you walk around with that smile staring into the distance, not seeing anyone, ignoring people” this is showing his unhappiness with Corals current mental state. But in the play with Tom when Coral as a mermaid says “I’m walking, I’m walking “ As she walks out of the water represents her coming back into the real world, reconciling with herself to let the pain of losing her son in the war go, she is finally able to come back I sync with
One. My position at school I can’t go on turning up at school functions with you if you’re going to going to behave like a ghost, you walk around with that smile staring into the distance, not seeing anyone, ignoring people” this is showing his unhappiness with Corals current mental state. But in the play with Tom when Coral as a mermaid says “I’m walking, I’m walking “ As she walks out of the water represents her coming back into the real world, reconciling with herself to let the pain of losing her son in the war go, she is finally able to come back I sync with