How Does Bruce Dawe Use Visual Techniques In Enter Without So Much As Knocking

In my visual representation of ‘Enter Without So Much As Knocking’ By Bruce Dawe, I used several visual techniques to depict some of his key quotes and ideas of the play. I placed an angry businessman, wearing a green suit and about to stomp, in the middle of my poster as the main salient image. The bright green suit along with the character’s angry gaze symbolizes the idea of materialism and greed, a constant theme throughout the play. His legs are chained with a quote “Don’t run” and a quote under his leg that is about to stomp “Keep clear of grass” to depict the idea that the world is full of rules, where this idea is strongly depicted in the third stanza of the play. These quotes encouraged a reading path, leading the viewers down the page.

This portrays the idea that when another person is starting to become more successful and achieves more things than another person/group, they will betray them and attack them, trying to bring them down and keep them below them so that they may be more successful. The multitude of heads, sticks and blood creates a vector in the middle section of the poster and gives the effect that this is a major idea in the play and expresses that this is a very common thing in the real

HOSPITAL. SILENCE.” next to the pram and the closing line “Blink, blink. CEMETERY. Silence.” to create a reading path at the bottom of the poster. The pram buried symbolizes this key quote from the 5th stanza: “it was goodbye stars and the soft cry in the corner when no-one was looking”. This expresses that when people grow up they have to lose their emotions as if that was something only in childhood in order to survive the real world. This also portrays how childhood innocence is quickly lost once someone enters adulthood. The pram and the casket were placed next to each other to depict that life is a cycle, shown by the opening quote in Latin, “Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.” This quote expresses the idea that we were born from dust and we will return to dust, and this questions the idea and meaning of life, for we will return to where we came