Posted: June 2nd, 2015

Critical essay

Length : 1500

Weighting : 50%

INSTRUCTIONS:
– You must write on Henry Lawson’ The Drovers Wife’ AND
Barbara Baynton ‘ The Chosen Vessel’

and the following secondary readings,

Nicholas Jose Cultural Identity ‘ I think I’m something else’ ,

AND Sue Rowley ‘ The Journey’s End: Women’s Mobility and Confinement’.

Answer one of the following questions

1) How are gothic modes and/or techniques explored in your chosen texts?

or

2) How are gender and/or sexual identity explored in your chosen texts?

or

3) How are belonging and/or Australian cultural identity explored in your chosen texts?

You should also comment critically on the chosen texts’ use of literary techniques. (EXAMPLE: narrative voice, focalisation, representation, metaphor, irony, literary form, imagery, language.