Significant discoveries can be provocative and challenging that enables individuals to embark on a confronting journey to rediscover meaning, or a new aspect for the first time. A sense of curiosity and necessity is needed for a discovery to be transformative. An individual must first develop the ideology of being open-minded, strengthening an individual to overcome challenges, perceiving society, self and others differently.
Michael Gow’s play Away explores the aspect of the necessity of physically going ‘away’ in order to develop and open-mind set. Through the character depictions of Gwen and Coral, a confronting journey exploits the women to rediscover lost ideologies thus resulting in a transformative discovery. In comparison, Tim Winton’s …show more content…
Coral’s disconnection and isolation due to the loss of her son, illustrates her distorted reality thus signifying the importance of a discovery to occur. Within Act 1 Sc 3, it is established that Coral is alone, through the stage directions ‘outside. Coral, alone.” The soliloquy “all these children, having fun, playing, and me sitting there in the dark wiping away tears” depicts how Coral has not fully accepted reality. The powerful statement symbolically represents the memories that she possess from her son back when he, was of their age; ultimately she is grieving. Curiosity leads Coral to venture independently resulting in a transformative discovery to take place. The ‘play within a play’, positions the audience to foreshadow the events in which is occurring, allowing Coral to come to her catalyst, ultimately discovering the reality of life “I’m walking [in her own voice] I’m walking”. Stage directions allow the audience to detect the shift in Coral’s mindset and the acceptance of her son’s death. No longer, does she blame her husband for the loss of her son, but now, because of Tom, she has developed the ideology that death is inevitable and that perhaps “it is better for them to die like that [being young]… looking like gods”. Through the developed idea that relationships are of high significance, Coral is portrayed to be ‘inviting’ Roy, to share the grief
Michael Gow’s play Away explores the aspect of the necessity of physically going ‘away’ in order to develop and open-mind set. Through the character depictions of Gwen and Coral, a confronting journey exploits the women to rediscover lost ideologies thus resulting in a transformative discovery. In comparison, Tim Winton’s …show more content…
Coral’s disconnection and isolation due to the loss of her son, illustrates her distorted reality thus signifying the importance of a discovery to occur. Within Act 1 Sc 3, it is established that Coral is alone, through the stage directions ‘outside. Coral, alone.” The soliloquy “all these children, having fun, playing, and me sitting there in the dark wiping away tears” depicts how Coral has not fully accepted reality. The powerful statement symbolically represents the memories that she possess from her son back when he, was of their age; ultimately she is grieving. Curiosity leads Coral to venture independently resulting in a transformative discovery to take place. The ‘play within a play’, positions the audience to foreshadow the events in which is occurring, allowing Coral to come to her catalyst, ultimately discovering the reality of life “I’m walking [in her own voice] I’m walking”. Stage directions allow the audience to detect the shift in Coral’s mindset and the acceptance of her son’s death. No longer, does she blame her husband for the loss of her son, but now, because of Tom, she has developed the ideology that death is inevitable and that perhaps “it is better for them to die like that [being young]… looking like gods”. Through the developed idea that relationships are of high significance, Coral is portrayed to be ‘inviting’ Roy, to share the grief