Down at the Dump.pptx

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Down at the

Dump by Patrick

White


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Summary of Down At The Dump


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Down at the Dumpcounterpoints two families, and theirjourney on an afternoon.

One family which is the Hogbensfamily is off to the funeral ofMrs. Hogbenssister, Daise Morrow.

T.E : I came here to the funeral (Literature English,)

Another family which is the Whalleysfamily is headingtoSarsaparilla dump, for business and pleasure.

T.E : When your dads got a nice idea. Were goin down toSarsaparilla dump.


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Whalleysfamily went to Sarsaparilla.

Resurrection and dumping of Daise Morrow.

Meg met Lummy Whalley at the dump.

They both kissing and starting to fall in love with eachother.

Megs mother, Mrs Hogben found them kissing in thewire.

Mrs. Hogben did not like very much they both to fallin love.

Both families went back home after they finishestheir business.

Lummy Whalley and Meg Hogben meet at the back ofthe ute,starts to budding their relationship.


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Literary

Criticism


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New historicism

Feminism

Sociological Cultural studies


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New Historicism

Meaning:

May approach a text from numerousperspectives, but all perspectives tend to reflect aconcern with the period in which a text is produced

and/or read.

Historicism is concerned with relating the idea of atext key concepts: culture, discourse, ideology, the

self, and history. New Historicists examineintersections of text, reader, and history and with aspecial emphasis on literatures a cultural text.New Historicists also examine the relationship ofliterature to the power structures of society.


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The ideology of White in his story:

Presents on isolation in the midst of bourgeois

life (belonging to middle class). In all of them,simple and orthodox situations are transformedby White's ability to render both the surfaceboredom of life and its inner intensity.

Patrick White detested what he saw as theemptiness and materialism at the heart ofAustralian life yet it inspired his visionary

literature with its characters searching formeaning. He wanted to convey a transcendenceabove human realities, a mystery and poetrythat could make an ordinary life bearable.


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Emptiness:

T.E: She always had to be doing something.It made her feel better.(LiteratureEnglish, pg 102)

T.E:: So Meg Hogben was, and felt,

altogether awful.(Literature English, pg 102)

Searching for denotation:

the forbidden love between Lummy WhalleyandMeg Hogben. Both it seems are destinedfor morethen what is expected of them.


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Feminism

To raise the awareness of sexual politics of

language and style.

To analyze women writers and their writings

from female perspective.

To interpret the symbolism of women from

the male point of view.

Develop and uncover a female tradition of

writing


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Women in Australia

Women have made significant contributions

to every aspect of Australias development,

including its society, culture and economy.

However, women in Australia, as in other

countries, have had to battle institutional

and social barriers as they struggled for

equality of opportunity.


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Shows the strength of women

T.E: ..and she went on chopping in the yard.

Her right arm swung, firm still, muscular,

though parts of her were beginning to sag.

She swung with her right, and her left armhung free. She chipped at the log, left right.

She was expert with the axe. Because you

had to be. You couldntexpect all that froma man.(Literature English, pg100)


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Women are meant for house chores

T.E: She was glad she hadntgirls. Boys

turned into men,and you couldnt do without

men,..

T.E: ..Stuck at home with a lot of kids


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Cultural Criticism

Middle-class lifestyle

'Down at the Dump' is also a modern day

Australian Romeo& Juliet, the forbidden love

between Lummy Whalley and Meg Hogben.

Both it seems are destined for more then

what is expected of them. The story is also

a comment on the staid middle-class lifestyle,

the petty bourgeois existence of the suburbs.


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Sociological

The rich and the poor

'Down at the Dump' counterpoints two families,

and their journeys on an afternoon. One of thefamilies is off to the funeral of Mrs. Hogben'ssister Daise. The other family the Whalley's, offto the Sarsaparilla dump, for business andpleasure.

T.E: 'I thought the beer was an excuse forcomin'.' (Isba pg.8)

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