Hey hope this helps guys, Please simply do not copy and paste, but use this essay as an example. I finished my HSC in 08 and this is what i went in with.
Good luck guys!
Please note there is no question, just general information**
Dialogue can be defined as a conversation between two or more people who are exchanging ideas or opinions on particular issues. In this case David Williamson uses numerous techniques to assume control, purpose and status. Some of the techniques Williamson uses in the play to highlight the themes of Power, Tradition, Commercialism, The role of women in society and Loyalty, are insults, interruptions, expletives, sarcasm, idioms and hyperboles. In addition, it is the characters that reinforce these techniques and themes through the use of dialogue. Another text that clearly uses dialogue in order to reinforce themes and characters is “Weapons Training”.
One of David Williamson major issues in “The Club” is Tradition & Loyalty. Each of the characters in the play have different attitude towards tradition. Throughout “The Club”, Tradition is mainly presented as the opposite to progress and achievement. Dialogue used for such a topic was usually defensive for ones own morals and beliefs. For example, Laurie blames an old club tradition for his failure to win a premiership. “you and your cronies wouldn’t let me buy any players” in return, Jock replies “ we where up holding an old tradition, it was wrong but we believed in it” in this Laurie uses colloquial and slang language to lash out at jock, but Jock uses a more sensible, formal language style of replying to Laurie’s statement. Further More Laurie believes in Tradition and Loyalty first and for most he Judges others harshly when they do not openly display these values. This is highlighted with the non- respect for Ted because of the fact Ted has not honoured tradition due to his non-background. This is indicated by Laurie’s Quote “I resent the fact that he’s come into the club with no background and experience and carried on as if he’s god almighty”. When Geoff states “he’s also seen every game this club played since he was six year’s old…” Laurie realizes that Ted is not responsible and feels guilty for making incorrect assumptions about him. This is illustrated with “now maybe I’m just feeling guilty about what I did to him in the press this morning.
Another text that reinforces these themes and characters is “Weapons Training”. Where the Poem is a Dramatic Monologue, one way conversation between a sergeant and his recruits because the recruits have been silenced, the sergeant is in a position of power. The sergeant holds this position though his tone, sexual language, expletives, racism. He achieves in doing so through rhetorical question, onomatopoeia, repetition and jargon. In order to have the soldier’s ready to be sent to war, where as the “weapons” are the soldiers that are in “training” expresses the human experience on dialogue.
Further more David Williamson’s “The Club” exposes the conflict that exists to Commercialism within Australian rule football club (AFL) where the club is seen as a satire of a professional football club, who are under pressure of a group of people trying to gain the upper hand. Commercialism is portrayed by Gerry, where he derives power and wealth from the club at any cost. This is also highlighted through Laurie implying the committee has shifted to business and money. This statement is represented when Geoff explains how they thought of him as a “giant pork chop”. In the statement it also states that Gerry is more about the business rather then Loyalty, Where Gerry implies that they get wealthy supports to get a membership through breaking Club Tradition. This is known through his phrase “I don’t love the club’ and I don’t particularly like the game” knowingly that he is all about business as he mentions it and money. Gerry’s Sole objective is to derive power and wealth from the club. Gerry knows he has achieved in doing so with the phrase “I’m the best football administrator in the country”. This also shows that Gerry is up himself by putting the others down with “you’re only the second best”, which reinforces the power he has gained through the club administrator.
Power is also explored throughout this text. Most of the play is based on the power struggles involving the characters. The power struggle between Laurie and Jock is evident by Laurie’s accusation that Jock only Supported the Committee Traditional approach to stop Laurie from succeeding. Other characters may have more power such as Gerry, Who has the ability to manipulate others so he can achieve and accomplish his own hidden agenda’s. Ted uses sarcasm to achieve power over the other characters, for example Danny replies “the players want their point of view before the committee makes any decisions about Laurie” Ted replies with “the players can go to hell”. Ted uses sarcasm to show his attitude towards the issues, even through he doesn’t literally mean for the players to go hell exactly. Where as Jock has no realistic aspiration of power without the support of Gerry. Jock appears to be foolish due to his gullibility. When Geoff offers him a hash cigarette, he does not realize he is smoking drugs even through he is experiencing its effects. This is depicted through his comment, “That bloody tobaccos made my eyes go funny, I’ll swear I saw these photos move”. This is all shown through the combination of the drugs and Geoff’s bizarre story highlights Jock innate foolishness.
In “Weapons Training” the theme of power is highly explored, through the sergeant’s tone and the way the soldiers are being silenced reinforces the sergeant’s power over the soldiers. The sergeant gains power through his insults towards the soldiers such as “are you queer” and “what are you going to do about it” are both rhetorical questions asked by the sergeant, through his way of preparing the soldiers for war. The use of “click” and “pitter patter” are both onomatopoeias produce’s the sounds of weapons. The use of no punctuations is done so on purpose to set out fast pasted actions, emphases that war is no joke, no time for fooling around. This is illustrated in the repetition on “Dead! Dead! Dead!”. Sergeants gives the soldiers hope though both his sexist language “Turning the key into the ignition considerable reduced?” and insulting the enemy though calling them “Charlie’s”. Illustrating that the sergeant is similar to Jock relating to “the club”.
The role of women is greatly explored through the non-presence of women exposes the late 1970’s, this is depicted through Ted’s act of physical violence against a women. It is evident throughout the play, the level of sexism against women. This is highlighted through the terms of describing women, “Sheila’s”, “trollop” and “slut”. Where as Jock comment “when I got home Rosemary said think you met your match today, and I thumped her one” illustrates Jock Physically attacking a women portrays both the 1970’s and women in society. Another tasteless observation that “Raylene’s a hell of a nice girl but the word is she’s not a great for hiding the sausage” Indicating even when women are mentioned it is either for assault or harassment in order to gain the upper-hand, Therefore representing the human experience through the use of dialogue.
In conclusion David Williamson “The Club” and “Weapons Training” expose a range of Dialogue to represent the human experience, in order to dominate other characters in the text, verbally or non-verbally. Where as Williamson uses the Themes to highlight on Power, Tradition, Commercialism, The role of women in society and loyalty. The use of colloquialism, slang, emotive language, sarcasm and irony is evident in all issues discussed. Even through “The Club” is talking about an AFL football team the play is based on numerous controversial issues in the Society of 1970’s.
Good luck guys!
Please note there is no question, just general information**
Dialogue can be defined as a conversation between two or more people who are exchanging ideas or opinions on particular issues. In this case David Williamson uses numerous techniques to assume control, purpose and status. Some of the techniques Williamson uses in the play to highlight the themes of Power, Tradition, Commercialism, The role of women in society and Loyalty, are insults, interruptions, expletives, sarcasm, idioms and hyperboles. In addition, it is the characters that reinforce these techniques and themes through the use of dialogue. Another text that clearly uses dialogue in order to reinforce themes and characters is “Weapons Training”.
One of David Williamson major issues in “The Club” is Tradition & Loyalty. Each of the characters in the play have different attitude towards tradition. Throughout “The Club”, Tradition is mainly presented as the opposite to progress and achievement. Dialogue used for such a topic was usually defensive for ones own morals and beliefs. For example, Laurie blames an old club tradition for his failure to win a premiership. “you and your cronies wouldn’t let me buy any players” in return, Jock replies “ we where up holding an old tradition, it was wrong but we believed in it” in this Laurie uses colloquial and slang language to lash out at jock, but Jock uses a more sensible, formal language style of replying to Laurie’s statement. Further More Laurie believes in Tradition and Loyalty first and for most he Judges others harshly when they do not openly display these values. This is highlighted with the non- respect for Ted because of the fact Ted has not honoured tradition due to his non-background. This is indicated by Laurie’s Quote “I resent the fact that he’s come into the club with no background and experience and carried on as if he’s god almighty”. When Geoff states “he’s also seen every game this club played since he was six year’s old…” Laurie realizes that Ted is not responsible and feels guilty for making incorrect assumptions about him. This is illustrated with “now maybe I’m just feeling guilty about what I did to him in the press this morning.
Another text that reinforces these themes and characters is “Weapons Training”. Where the Poem is a Dramatic Monologue, one way conversation between a sergeant and his recruits because the recruits have been silenced, the sergeant is in a position of power. The sergeant holds this position though his tone, sexual language, expletives, racism. He achieves in doing so through rhetorical question, onomatopoeia, repetition and jargon. In order to have the soldier’s ready to be sent to war, where as the “weapons” are the soldiers that are in “training” expresses the human experience on dialogue.
Further more David Williamson’s “The Club” exposes the conflict that exists to Commercialism within Australian rule football club (AFL) where the club is seen as a satire of a professional football club, who are under pressure of a group of people trying to gain the upper hand. Commercialism is portrayed by Gerry, where he derives power and wealth from the club at any cost. This is also highlighted through Laurie implying the committee has shifted to business and money. This statement is represented when Geoff explains how they thought of him as a “giant pork chop”. In the statement it also states that Gerry is more about the business rather then Loyalty, Where Gerry implies that they get wealthy supports to get a membership through breaking Club Tradition. This is known through his phrase “I don’t love the club’ and I don’t particularly like the game” knowingly that he is all about business as he mentions it and money. Gerry’s Sole objective is to derive power and wealth from the club. Gerry knows he has achieved in doing so with the phrase “I’m the best football administrator in the country”. This also shows that Gerry is up himself by putting the others down with “you’re only the second best”, which reinforces the power he has gained through the club administrator.
Power is also explored throughout this text. Most of the play is based on the power struggles involving the characters. The power struggle between Laurie and Jock is evident by Laurie’s accusation that Jock only Supported the Committee Traditional approach to stop Laurie from succeeding. Other characters may have more power such as Gerry, Who has the ability to manipulate others so he can achieve and accomplish his own hidden agenda’s. Ted uses sarcasm to achieve power over the other characters, for example Danny replies “the players want their point of view before the committee makes any decisions about Laurie” Ted replies with “the players can go to hell”. Ted uses sarcasm to show his attitude towards the issues, even through he doesn’t literally mean for the players to go hell exactly. Where as Jock has no realistic aspiration of power without the support of Gerry. Jock appears to be foolish due to his gullibility. When Geoff offers him a hash cigarette, he does not realize he is smoking drugs even through he is experiencing its effects. This is depicted through his comment, “That bloody tobaccos made my eyes go funny, I’ll swear I saw these photos move”. This is all shown through the combination of the drugs and Geoff’s bizarre story highlights Jock innate foolishness.
In “Weapons Training” the theme of power is highly explored, through the sergeant’s tone and the way the soldiers are being silenced reinforces the sergeant’s power over the soldiers. The sergeant gains power through his insults towards the soldiers such as “are you queer” and “what are you going to do about it” are both rhetorical questions asked by the sergeant, through his way of preparing the soldiers for war. The use of “click” and “pitter patter” are both onomatopoeias produce’s the sounds of weapons. The use of no punctuations is done so on purpose to set out fast pasted actions, emphases that war is no joke, no time for fooling around. This is illustrated in the repetition on “Dead! Dead! Dead!”. Sergeants gives the soldiers hope though both his sexist language “Turning the key into the ignition considerable reduced?” and insulting the enemy though calling them “Charlie’s”. Illustrating that the sergeant is similar to Jock relating to “the club”.
The role of women is greatly explored through the non-presence of women exposes the late 1970’s, this is depicted through Ted’s act of physical violence against a women. It is evident throughout the play, the level of sexism against women. This is highlighted through the terms of describing women, “Sheila’s”, “trollop” and “slut”. Where as Jock comment “when I got home Rosemary said think you met your match today, and I thumped her one” illustrates Jock Physically attacking a women portrays both the 1970’s and women in society. Another tasteless observation that “Raylene’s a hell of a nice girl but the word is she’s not a great for hiding the sausage” Indicating even when women are mentioned it is either for assault or harassment in order to gain the upper-hand, Therefore representing the human experience through the use of dialogue.
In conclusion David Williamson “The Club” and “Weapons Training” expose a range of Dialogue to represent the human experience, in order to dominate other characters in the text, verbally or non-verbally. Where as Williamson uses the Themes to highlight on Power, Tradition, Commercialism, The role of women in society and loyalty. The use of colloquialism, slang, emotive language, sarcasm and irony is evident in all issues discussed. Even through “The Club” is talking about an AFL football team the play is based on numerous controversial issues in the Society of 1970’s.