My Brilliant Career is a novel written by Stella Maria Miles Franklin.
The text focuses around ideas of marriage, social inequities involving class and gender in Australian society and myths of Australian bush landscape during the 1890s. Using various narrative conventions such as characterization, symbolism and point of view, these ideas have been presented as elements of the Australian identity in the course of the era.
My Brilliant Career is a testament of the courage and conviction of Australian woman aspiring artists during the era. It may have sparked the dawn of feminism, ultimately redefining the Australian identity of gender roles in society.
My Brilliant Career is a coming of age story centred on an intelligent and headstrong girl of the 1890s, Sybylla Melvyn. The novel tells Sybylla’s journey towards …show more content…
However, Sybylla was impeccably represented as the contrary - a confident bush heroine who remained true to herself. She threw the social strait jacket of being a maid or being married as it meant being ‘forced to sit with tied hands and patiently suffer as the waves of fate tossed them hither and thither, battering and bruising without mercy’.
Richard Melvyn is Sybylla’s father, a cattle rancher and dairy farmer whom Sybylla previously admired. The former Dick Melvyn was ‘worthy of his name’ as a kind and gentle being. After they move to Possum Gully, he becomes ‘a slave of drink’ which creates financial hardships for his family. He ‘seemed to lose all love and interest in his family, grew cross and silent, utterly without pride and pluck.’
Lucy Melvyn is Sybylla’s mother, wife of Richard Melvyn. She enjoyed her childhood as a ‘full fledged aristocrat’. However, she regrets marrying Richard, and takes her frustration out on her children. Lucy is ‘cruel and unjust’ towards her children, neglecting their emotional
The text focuses around ideas of marriage, social inequities involving class and gender in Australian society and myths of Australian bush landscape during the 1890s. Using various narrative conventions such as characterization, symbolism and point of view, these ideas have been presented as elements of the Australian identity in the course of the era.
My Brilliant Career is a testament of the courage and conviction of Australian woman aspiring artists during the era. It may have sparked the dawn of feminism, ultimately redefining the Australian identity of gender roles in society.
My Brilliant Career is a coming of age story centred on an intelligent and headstrong girl of the 1890s, Sybylla Melvyn. The novel tells Sybylla’s journey towards …show more content…
However, Sybylla was impeccably represented as the contrary - a confident bush heroine who remained true to herself. She threw the social strait jacket of being a maid or being married as it meant being ‘forced to sit with tied hands and patiently suffer as the waves of fate tossed them hither and thither, battering and bruising without mercy’.
Richard Melvyn is Sybylla’s father, a cattle rancher and dairy farmer whom Sybylla previously admired. The former Dick Melvyn was ‘worthy of his name’ as a kind and gentle being. After they move to Possum Gully, he becomes ‘a slave of drink’ which creates financial hardships for his family. He ‘seemed to lose all love and interest in his family, grew cross and silent, utterly without pride and pluck.’
Lucy Melvyn is Sybylla’s mother, wife of Richard Melvyn. She enjoyed her childhood as a ‘full fledged aristocrat’. However, she regrets marrying Richard, and takes her frustration out on her children. Lucy is ‘cruel and unjust’ towards her children, neglecting their emotional