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Themes

Audiences engage with Australian cultural issues and the personal concerns of the characters on the stage when they are presented as themes. These themes are primary features of the piece and are therefore heavily emphasised throughout it. For example, the "stolen generation", referring to the Aboriginal peoples being taken from their families at a young age, is still a very serious cultural issue in Australia, and when presented as a theme in the play //Stolen// by Jane Harrison, it engages the audience to think about and gain understanding of the issue. ​ This is done through a Brechtian technique that is employed right from the start of the first scene, where the actors come on stage and acknowledge people in the audience before adopting their characters. This technique distances the audience from each individual character as they know they are just actors, and instead the audience is compelled to contemplate the situations each character is in from an objective standpoint and therefore contemplating the themes and issues (i.e. the stolen generation) of the play. (How?? - you need to elaborate here and give some specific examples) Themes such as "grief" and "loss" are based around human emotions and experiences, such as in Matt Cameron's //Ruby Moon.// //​​//Cameron shows these themes through repetition of lines such as "past tense", which is said by Ray or Sylvie whenever the other talks in past tense about their missing daughter. This shows that they are still grieving for their loss and cannot admit to themselves that their daughter may be gone. (again, where? when? how? - you need to be far more specific) These themes of grief and loss (Name them) allow the audience to understand the personal concerns of the characters as the human emotions portrayed are easily empathised with. The use of themes such as ​"the stolen generation", "grief" and "loss", help the audience to engage with and understand Australia's cultural issues and the personal concerns of the characters on the stage ​​through Brechtian techniques and repetitive, emotional lines. (summary statement needs to include some of the point you have made throughout your discussion. It should be more than the topic sentence)

A good start, Josh. I left your instructions in here after my corrections so that you can see what I have tried to do. Thank you for the help miss and I hope it is what you wanted :)

Well done, Josh!! Much better!