our country's good character analysis
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- Created on: 26-05-19 21:48
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- our country's good characters
- harry
- officer
- takes advantage of his status
- madness
- hearing voices
- personality disorder
- audience feel slight sympathy for him
- jealous
- duckling
- vulnerable
- needy
- justifies his mistakes and guilt via duckling
- controlling
- good posture, strong gait
- twitchy
- paranoia
- negative effects hanging has on the hangman
- alcoholic
- officer
- duckling
- audience feel sympathy for her
- survival
- manipulative
- vulnerable
- needs attention
- does she want affection or protection?
- fickle
- physically provocative
- uses harry's status for personal gain
- strong
- negative effects of capital punishment- relationship is ruined
- liz
- nature/nurturedebate
- survival
- dislike
- angry/ dangerous
- aggressive
- animalistic
- bold- physically and verbally
- self defence
- solitary
- vulnerable
- transformes from the lowest of the low to a formerly speaking woman- redemptive power of theatre
- how's how convicts were treated with no respect
- her hanging sparks debate about the fairness of the penal system
- status
- sideway
- eccentric
- comic relief
- punishments
- sees vulnerability in others
- sympathetic
- tries to save liz
- camp
- coping mechanism
- theatrical stereotype
- flourish of hand
- redemptive power of theatre
- likeable
- defiantly acts as ross humiliates him- theatre makes him brave
- votes to start a theatre company
- IRL created Sydneys first profesional theatre company
- wisehammer
- intelligent- words and meanings
- what he says is articulate
- raises all the issues in the play
- epic theatre
- love, status, class
- penal system, innocents, justice
- power of theatre/words
- sympathy- in love with Mary
- quietly affectionate
- good natured
- purpose in everything he says
- earnest man
- Mary
- innocence
- limited voice
- in dabby's shadow
- needs protection
- vulnerable
- intelligence
- reading
- in being vulnerable and attractive towards men
- youthful
- act 2- confident, manipulative?
- 'better breed of convict'- Ralph
- servant from a well to do house
- conversations with wisehammer shows the power of language
- theatre brings people together
- uses the play's words to tell Ralph how she feels
- Ralph
- innocent
- relationship out of convenience
- act 1- wants a promotion, he is initially pro punishment
- isolated
- humane
- man of duty
- amiable officer
- want him to succeed
- closer to convict community
- they need him
- affectionate- doesn't order Mary around
- tenderness
- love vs duty
- defends convicts in front of campbell
- later sees the value of education and redemption
- shows mindsets can be changed
- at first is immune to the floggings- counts calmly
- sees convicts as less than human
- theatre can bring people together- Mary
- meg long
- lowest status
- filthy
- stinks
- Ralph is disgusted by her
- unfairness/ inequality
- has no chance at redemption because she has stooped so low
- Dabby Bryant
- pragmatic
- mouthy
- insightful
- 'if god didn't want women to be whores, he shouldn't have created men who pay for their bodies'
- isn't bothered about learning lines
- didn't get involved in the play so didn't change
- plans to escape back to Devon
- ketch freeman
- the girls hate for him gives them something to bond over
- shows the stigma behind being a hangman
- sees redemption through theatre
- by the end he is as much of a part as anyone else
- black caesar
- feared by the convicts
- rapes Mary
- endangers the production in the final scene and going missing
- intention- adds more layers and convicts in the play
- arescott
- brutalised enforcer of the gang
- takes refuge in the play because 'I don't have to remember the things I have done'
- at the beginning wants to run away
- completely converted
- aborigine
- highlights negative impacts on colonisation
- highlights the British lack of empathy
- cultural differences
- innocent bystander watching the first fleet arrive with wonder and bemusement
- saw the settlers as ghosts as they were white
- lieutenant George Johnston
- has compassion especially for the convict women
- "he (Jesus) did propose treating sinners, especially woman who have sinned, with compassion"
- reverend johnson
- believes the play should uphold christian values
- campbell
- major ross' sidekick
- struggles to make fully formed sentences as he is always drunk
- full comedic potential
- comic relief for the audience from the other intense scenes
- Tench
- represents a philosophy of right wing pragmatism
- believes there are more important things to teach the convicts than to 'sit around laughing at a comedy'
- build houses or farm
- represents those resistant to change
- 'criminal tendency is innate'
- nature over nurture
- contrast to Phillips assertion of the convicts innate humanity
- unable to empathise with the convicts
- David collins
- the law must be upheld
- main motivation is the maintenance of justice in the colony
- reasonable and intelligent man
- represents those with an innate sense of justice and fairness
- the issue isn't about liz it's about justice and thus the audience may become annoyed with him
- "the courts will become travesties, I do not want that"
- the law must be upheld
- robbie ross
- pro punishment
- believes they cant be rehabilitated
- "the prisoners are here to be punished and we're here to make sure they get punished
- too much power can make you nasty
- unfair hierarchal system
- despair and hatred of where he is
- shows even awful people are still human
- against the play
- pro punishment
- Captain Phillips
- representation of liberal belief system
- favours redemption over punishment
- redemptive and humanising power of theatre
- respectful
- interested in liz as she is 'the most difficult woman in the colony'
- her redemption through art will be an example to all
- repulsed by the hanging of a 17 year old boy and an 82 year old woman
- contrasts the harsher views of other officers
- "surely no one is born naturally cultured'
- nurture over nature
- harry
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