Comparing The Outback And Island Of Prospera

Similarities and differences of the Outback & Island of Prospera In the movie Walkabout it take place most of the time in the Australian outback. The outback is depicted as a desert, extremely hot, flat for miles and then hilly for a little bit, but there are still signs of life. There are three main characters in this movie, a brother, sister, and an aboriginal man. The movie the Tempest takes place on the Island of Prospera the island is dark, gloomy and dry there is some life there but not much. This movie also has three main characters, Prospero and her daughter who got banished to the island, and Caliban a man who has always lived on the island. In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the outback in Walkabout with the Island

The landscape of both is rather plain and in a sense dry. For miles the landscape is the same, in the outback is all flat and sandy for miles and occasionally a sand dune. The island is not flat but it is all rock and dirt for miles. In the outback there were some plants and the further they went in the less plants there were, but they did find tree. On the island trees could also be found, there seemed to be also just one main area but on the island the area was one forest of trees instead of just one tree. Both the island and the outback could sustain life, human and animal. In the outback and the island you could find birds flying above and some animals roaming around. And there were sources of water, the two most important things to sustain

Before the two main characters arrived in the outback the Aboriginal people lived there. The Aboriginal people are a group/ groups of people who scientists believe came to Australia 45,000 years ago, they are hunter and gathers and live from the land (Survival International Charitable Trust). The two main characters met an Aboriginal man the day they were laying under the tree they looked up and saw him running down the sand dune hunting a lizard. On the island before the other characters arrived there it was inhabited by a man named Caliban, he was born there and was living there alone until the character Prospera and her daughter