Throughout early Australian literature, the language employed allows audiences to understand the expression of community identity and values by coming away from the traditional British identity and larrikinism. Famous Australian writer Henry Lawson was sent out to the Australian outback to write short stories for the Bulletin magazine in the 1890s, to end the Bulletin Debate with Banjo Pattison who romanticised the bush. In two of Lawson’s short stories, The Union Buries its Dead and The Loaded Dog, it is clear that he focuses on ensuring that his language highlights the new community identity away from the British structure, and how the value of larrikinism allows for this identity. The overall use of distinct language in the short stories, …show more content…
The Union Buries Its Dead follows Henry Lawson as the narrator who retells his thoughts on a real funeral he attended while working in the outback as a part of the General Labourers Union. The Australian outback, during all Lawson’s sketches, has a normalisation of alcohol and death being a standard part of life, however, Lawson highlights that there was always a united front for paying respect to the descendant. Lawson writes “but unisom is stronger than creed. Drink, however, is stronger than uniform”, where the narrator talks about the bushmen turning up to the start of the funeral purely because of their link with the General Labourers Union, but the alcoholism was stronger. The parallelism of “is stronger than” in this quote emphasises the comparison of creed, alcohol and unionism. Alongside this, the juxtaposition is used when highlighting the difference between creed, drinking and uniform. However, Lawson created a common thread that links to the loyalty to religion and the mateship formed from the union, whilst maintaining their own community identity. The narrator of the story shares all his thoughts when walking in the funeral line, “We passed two
graphic content, and gruesome dramatisation, is often referred to as the original ‘Grand Guignol.’ The play satisfied the Jacobeans’ ghoulish obsession with the macabre. In this essay, I intend to discuss the importance of the extract from Act 1V scene 1, and consider the distinctive features of Webster’s language. The essay will explore how Webster skilfully weaved the rampant hypocrisy of the Jacobean era, including inequality, injustice, and moral corruption into the text and theme of the play.
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