Composer's use their distinctive voices to explore their ideas about humanity, revealing the unvarnished truths of idealism and change. In Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth
Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital Letters” at TEDxSydney, verbalises the voice of the often overlooked and marginalised within Australian society.
Playwrights such as Ray Lawler use their distinctive voices in texts to create characters that
Expose the dangers of excessive idealism. This is …show more content…
Here, Lawler utilises colloquial language along with idiom and emotive language to signal to the audience Roo’s blunders in not accepting the passage of time and facing up to the true nature of his life as self-indulgent and idealistic.
Through his utilisation of characters in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Lawler constructs a rich, and thought-provoking play that captures the essence of youthful idealism and reverie.
Though, the character’s experience times of happiness and joy in the layoff season, their life of unbridled hedonism and extravagance comes crashing down after the reality of their idealism is revealed through Roo’s deteriorating physical and mental strength and the loss of Barney’s youthful larrikin nature.
Slam poetry is a genre that allows poets to express their individual ideas and situations which often challenge the traditions of society that claim absolute authority over literary value, as seen in Omar Musa’s Capital Letters. He gives voice to the experiences of unknown Australians, demonstrated in “I knew none of their government names back then back then” and
Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital Letters” at TEDxSydney, verbalises the voice of the often overlooked and marginalised within Australian society.
Playwrights such as Ray Lawler use their distinctive voices in texts to create characters that
Expose the dangers of excessive idealism. This is …show more content…
Here, Lawler utilises colloquial language along with idiom and emotive language to signal to the audience Roo’s blunders in not accepting the passage of time and facing up to the true nature of his life as self-indulgent and idealistic.
Through his utilisation of characters in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Lawler constructs a rich, and thought-provoking play that captures the essence of youthful idealism and reverie.
Though, the character’s experience times of happiness and joy in the layoff season, their life of unbridled hedonism and extravagance comes crashing down after the reality of their idealism is revealed through Roo’s deteriorating physical and mental strength and the loss of Barney’s youthful larrikin nature.
Slam poetry is a genre that allows poets to express their individual ideas and situations which often challenge the traditions of society that claim absolute authority over literary value, as seen in Omar Musa’s Capital Letters. He gives voice to the experiences of unknown Australians, demonstrated in “I knew none of their government names back then back then” and