The text Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson offers a range of representations of people and groups that were present during the 1990s in Australia and allows for the audience to gain an understanding of them. Hannie Rayson focuses on how gender roles in Australia produce a patriarchal society in which men had the power and women were greatly restricted. Rayson manages to use characters and their relationships with one another to help demonstrate this representation. Rayson also draws attention to family, by representing the Moynihan family to broken by trust and loyalty. This is be backed up by Rayson’s use of stage directions and the plays structure to show how family can either help build you up or break you down.
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Rayson uses stage directions and the strutcure of the play to show how the three sisters have no family bond visible. The earlier bond seen in the play seems to have been crushed bu choices that each of them have ,ade. Which has lead to the alienation that have been created by these choose, and has gone to far beyond any resolutions. The last scene, which is the sale of the house symbolises the state of there family. As they can not get ride of their problems or solve them so thy resort to what they think it the only way out, getting rid of their house. The death of Wal and the sale of the family home symbolises the families unity and their relationship with one another. This is again reinforced as in scene 19 the family is absent as only the auctioneer is present. The auctioneer presenting the happy stereotype of the family, but we feel as if its a bit hollow, due to the juxtaposition of the previous scene and the entire play. As scene 18 nothing is resolved and a lot of long drawn out silences go on between the siblings, which is a completely opposite image to what the auctioneer is
In Australia traditional …show more content…
Rayson uses stage directions and the strutcure of the play to show how the three sisters have no family bond visible. The earlier bond seen in the play seems to have been crushed bu choices that each of them have ,ade. Which has lead to the alienation that have been created by these choose, and has gone to far beyond any resolutions. The last scene, which is the sale of the house symbolises the state of there family. As they can not get ride of their problems or solve them so thy resort to what they think it the only way out, getting rid of their house. The death of Wal and the sale of the family home symbolises the families unity and their relationship with one another. This is again reinforced as in scene 19 the family is absent as only the auctioneer is present. The auctioneer presenting the happy stereotype of the family, but we feel as if its a bit hollow, due to the juxtaposition of the previous scene and the entire play. As scene 18 nothing is resolved and a lot of long drawn out silences go on between the siblings, which is a completely opposite image to what the auctioneer is