David Williamson The Removalists Analysis

David Williamson is unanimously acknowledged by literary critics as a towering playwright in the contemporary Australian dramaturgy. His main domain is society as a structure with multiple institutions, and individual as its soul. The two entities are in close nexus and are interdependent. A society is what its inhabitants make it. The real essence of an individual lies in his social behavior. The flaws and faults of a person may stigmatize the sacred edifice of the society. Williamson as a social philosopher demonstrates very artfully the ins and outs of his society vis-à-vis its people. He holds up a mirror to Australian society with all its positives and negatives. He does the same in an entertaining manner, and thus accomplishes the two fold objective of literature i.e. amusement and enlightenment. The present study deliberates on the same idea by critiquing The Removalists and Don’s Party, two masterpieces of David Williamson.
Keywords: society, individual, police and politics. Introduction: Literature and social reality are indivisible, and one cannot be thought of without the …show more content…
Its dominant themes may be identified as: the police brutality and unruly behavior; anti-authoritarianism; domestic violence and injustice; and limbic emotion and motivation. All these somber subjects are in a naturalistic mode that presents the individual struggle against the social norms, and even biological drives. Like dramatist of absurd mode, Williamson mostly uses black comedy as a form of writing in a shocking and startling manner. Behind this method is the purpose of moulding the audiences’ temperament and so to prepare them to receive distressed message in a light vein or humorously. So as per requirement and suitability, he employs this ‘black comedy’ colour in his plays with diversity and his The Removalists is a prototype among