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The play script Blackrock by Nick Enright is a suspensfull and comepelling script based on a true story from new South Wales. The structure in which Enright uses positions the reader to adopt similar values and attitudes toward the issues being presented, such as gender and alcohol issues. Though the author doesn’t prescribe these views and values to us, he strongly promotes them, revealing whether he views these as appropriate or in-appropriate in today’s modern society. One of the values which Enright presents as being really positive and which he believes we should adopt in relation to other people is to see gender as a territory for equal treatment. This can be demonstrated by reference to a variety of situations through-out the text. One example of a positive gender issue Enright tries to re-inforce is in scene twenty-four. In this scene Jared accompanies his mum, Diane to the grave of Tracy Warner, a girl raped and murdered by Blackrock locals. It is here where Jared aids his mother in the removal of derogative grafitti on Tracy Warner’s headstone. In this scene it shoes more than the one value, there are underlying values in which Enright presents. Apart from the obvious issue that the guys have a lack of respect for females shown through the gang rape, murder then grafitti of the headstone, there are others, noticed by reading between the lines.
Approximate Word count = 804
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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