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Jack Davis Red Monologues

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Jack Davis uses an authentic voice through the implementation of genuineness that’s evident through his lack of biasness. Jack Davis doesn’t degrade the characters of those such as Neville and Neal, instead exhibiting attitudes in response to the context of the story. The characters that Davis had created has motives in response to their displayed behaviours. The characters of Sergeant and Constable are considered to confirming to the set stereotypes against the aboriginals that’s evident in ‘Natives are best left to keep to themselves’ (Act 1, Scene 2), although the Sergeant may appear as condescending and racist at times, one needed to empathise with his prerogative as to an extent, he can be seen as simply following the orders set by AO Neville. The depth and complexity added to each characters are also manifested through Sister Eileen and Matron Neal. Sister Eileen is classified as one of ‘do gooders’ in the stage play, irrespective of her rank within the social hierarchy. She allocates respect the Aboriginals by addressing them by their full name and sympathising with their …show more content…

Sister Eileen’s prerogative to teach the younger Aboriginal generations of the English language is a product of the assimilation, as the extinction of the traditional language in exchange to English could cause a destruction of a culture. The complexity of Sister Eileen’s character allows the audience to witness her transgression against the futile treatment of the aboriginals, while at the same time, affirming the stereotypes of Aboriginals as uneducated, henceforth the enforcement of the English language. The variance within the paradigm of the characters used within Jack Davis’ stage play allows the readers to witness the hidden motives beneath each character, strongly influenced with the careful establishment of complexity added to each

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