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hey i kno im not the only person sweating on this module.. so i thought ide chuck my essay on THE CLUB and my two supplementary texts ; KATH 'N' KIM and THE GLASSHOUSE. hopefully it helps some one cram something in tonight for the exam tomorow! :uhhuh:
Composers frequently use dialogue to highlight certain aspects of society though texts. In this prescribed play, THE CLUB, by David Williamson, numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970's are presented such as tradition, commercialism, competitiveness, power, the role of women in society and loyalty. Two other selected resources for the discussion are THE GLASSHOUSE, an ABC comedy panel series and KTH 'N' KIM, an ABC comedy series.
One of David Williamsons major issue in THE CLUB is tradition. Each of the characters in this play has a 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 turn, Jock replies, "we were upholding an old tradition, it was wrong but we believed in it". In this Laurie uses colloquial ad slang language to lash out at Jock, but Jock uses a more sensible, formal language style of replying to Lauries statement.
Another issue discussed throughout THE CLUB is commercialism. THE CLUB itself is the beginning of the road ot commercialism with the purchase of Geoff Haywar for $90 000. The attitude of the acceptance of commercialism of sport is very evident inthis play. At first, Laurie seemed very upset and angry about purchasing a player for such an amount of money, when he showed no skill on the field. Laurie uses irony to get his view across to Gerry about the issue of Geoff Hayward. "No, it's just not that, i resent.... and carried on asif he's God Almighty" (page 13). Laurie claims that the clubs members have chosen to spend way to much money on Geoff Hayward. His attitude and tone indicate his feelings on the topic.
Power is also explored throughtout this text. Most of the play is based on power struggles involving the characters. The power struggle between Laurie and jock is evident by Laurie's accusation that Jock only supported the committee's traditonal 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. Ted uses sarcasm to achieve power over the other characters. For example, Danny: " the players want their point of view heard before the comittee makes any decisions about Laurie". Ted replies with, " the players can all go to hell". Ted uses sarcasm to show his attitude towards the issue, even though he doesn't literally mean for players to go to hell exactly. Profanity is used in this sistuation as well, so Ted can achieve control over the others. (page 18). Ted: "we're not going to renew his contract at the end of the year, lets get rid of the bastard now". Teds one who lets everyone know his feelings and by using abusive language, expletives, sarcasm, profanity, irony and prejudice and emotive language, he gains power over the other characters.
Non-verbal language such as hand getsures, facial expressions and body movement indicates a characters level of power. Ted always has taunting facial expressions when he is angry and moddy, whereas the others seem more placid. At the start, Ted is obviously the character with the most power but gradually loses it as the play develops. There is resentment for those who have power and towrds those who are denied this authority.
Competitiveness is also an important attitude in the play. The players and members of the club are fiercely competitive with each other and also withother football clubs in the league. The failuire to secure a premiership in years, strengthened the desire and competitive attitude towards victory. Jock uses irony to show his attitude towards achieveing a victory. For example: "with the team we'll have next year, Jesus Christ will be pushing to make the reserves". Homour and sarcasm are also used to indicate his attitude.
Loyalty is also an important issue in THE CLUB. Each of the characters are different in thier own ways. Danny is very loyal towards Laurie. Danny: " It's no threat, you sack Laurie tonight and you won't have a team tomorrow" (page 10). Danny takes a stand towards the comittee.
The role of women in society isn't greatly explored in THE CLUB. Every one except Ted, believes that it is unacceptable for a man to commit acts of physical violence against a woman. it is evident throught out the play, the level of sexism against women.
The club explores a range of dialogue either verbal or non-verbal. The use of colloquialism, slang, emotive lanaguage, sarcasm and irony is evident in all issues discussed. Even though THE CLUB is talking about an AFL football team, the play is based on umerous controverisal issue in the society of 1970., so because of the AFL background, frequent AFL jargon is used.
Two other resources, KATH 'N' KIM and THE GLASSHOUSE relate to THE CLUB and the society through the use of language devices as mentioned previously. THE GLASSHOUSE bases its issues around political headlines in todays news reports bu recreates them with the humour because it is a comedy show. Sarcasm is regularly used aswell as irony to change headlines into comical issues which are intended to create humour. The characters Kath and Kim use considerable Australian language and sarcam, idioms, profanity and emotive language to display thier attitude towards each other and society at large. Kim tries to impress her husbands boss by mispronouncing big words, in result unintentionally humiliating her self while embarassing her husband, Brett aswell but in turn providing humour for the audience.
In THE GLASSHOUSE, an ABC comdey pael t.v series, Will Anderson, one of the four members on the panel, uses facial expressions and hand gestures to describe and humilate a news reporter. Other members of the panel also use the same humour to express thier views. In KATH 'N' KIM, the way in which Kath walks, wears, facial expressions and body movement shows that she tries too hard to impress people and she thinks she is good when in fact she is portrayed as a loser an doesn't impress but in fact humiliates and degrades herself. The characters' accents, colloquial language and lifestyles show that this comdy is an unmistakeably Australian show.
Composers often use dialogue to highlight important aspects of society, such as traditon, competitiveness, commercialism, mateship and corruption though verbal dialogue such as irony, sarcasm, emotive language, jargon, colloquialism and slang, as well as non-verbal language such as facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement, stance and clothing to set the tone and mood of the show in order for the audience or readers to undertsand key issues, what the play is about, why is is humourous and what itis based on. Viewers can improve thier understanding of what is going on or if the show is comical, they will understand the intended humour.
damn thats alot! wel i hope it helps someone!
Composers frequently use dialogue to highlight certain aspects of society though texts. In this prescribed play, THE CLUB, by David Williamson, numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970's are presented such as tradition, commercialism, competitiveness, power, the role of women in society and loyalty. Two other selected resources for the discussion are THE GLASSHOUSE, an ABC comedy panel series and KTH 'N' KIM, an ABC comedy series.
One of David Williamsons major issue in THE CLUB is tradition. Each of the characters in this play has a 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 turn, Jock replies, "we were upholding an old tradition, it was wrong but we believed in it". In this Laurie uses colloquial ad slang language to lash out at Jock, but Jock uses a more sensible, formal language style of replying to Lauries statement.
Another issue discussed throughout THE CLUB is commercialism. THE CLUB itself is the beginning of the road ot commercialism with the purchase of Geoff Haywar for $90 000. The attitude of the acceptance of commercialism of sport is very evident inthis play. At first, Laurie seemed very upset and angry about purchasing a player for such an amount of money, when he showed no skill on the field. Laurie uses irony to get his view across to Gerry about the issue of Geoff Hayward. "No, it's just not that, i resent.... and carried on asif he's God Almighty" (page 13). Laurie claims that the clubs members have chosen to spend way to much money on Geoff Hayward. His attitude and tone indicate his feelings on the topic.
Power is also explored throughtout this text. Most of the play is based on power struggles involving the characters. The power struggle between Laurie and jock is evident by Laurie's accusation that Jock only supported the committee's traditonal 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. Ted uses sarcasm to achieve power over the other characters. For example, Danny: " the players want their point of view heard before the comittee makes any decisions about Laurie". Ted replies with, " the players can all go to hell". Ted uses sarcasm to show his attitude towards the issue, even though he doesn't literally mean for players to go to hell exactly. Profanity is used in this sistuation as well, so Ted can achieve control over the others. (page 18). Ted: "we're not going to renew his contract at the end of the year, lets get rid of the bastard now". Teds one who lets everyone know his feelings and by using abusive language, expletives, sarcasm, profanity, irony and prejudice and emotive language, he gains power over the other characters.
Non-verbal language such as hand getsures, facial expressions and body movement indicates a characters level of power. Ted always has taunting facial expressions when he is angry and moddy, whereas the others seem more placid. At the start, Ted is obviously the character with the most power but gradually loses it as the play develops. There is resentment for those who have power and towrds those who are denied this authority.
Competitiveness is also an important attitude in the play. The players and members of the club are fiercely competitive with each other and also withother football clubs in the league. The failuire to secure a premiership in years, strengthened the desire and competitive attitude towards victory. Jock uses irony to show his attitude towards achieveing a victory. For example: "with the team we'll have next year, Jesus Christ will be pushing to make the reserves". Homour and sarcasm are also used to indicate his attitude.
Loyalty is also an important issue in THE CLUB. Each of the characters are different in thier own ways. Danny is very loyal towards Laurie. Danny: " It's no threat, you sack Laurie tonight and you won't have a team tomorrow" (page 10). Danny takes a stand towards the comittee.
The role of women in society isn't greatly explored in THE CLUB. Every one except Ted, believes that it is unacceptable for a man to commit acts of physical violence against a woman. it is evident throught out the play, the level of sexism against women.
The club explores a range of dialogue either verbal or non-verbal. The use of colloquialism, slang, emotive lanaguage, sarcasm and irony is evident in all issues discussed. Even though THE CLUB is talking about an AFL football team, the play is based on umerous controverisal issue in the society of 1970., so because of the AFL background, frequent AFL jargon is used.
Two other resources, KATH 'N' KIM and THE GLASSHOUSE relate to THE CLUB and the society through the use of language devices as mentioned previously. THE GLASSHOUSE bases its issues around political headlines in todays news reports bu recreates them with the humour because it is a comedy show. Sarcasm is regularly used aswell as irony to change headlines into comical issues which are intended to create humour. The characters Kath and Kim use considerable Australian language and sarcam, idioms, profanity and emotive language to display thier attitude towards each other and society at large. Kim tries to impress her husbands boss by mispronouncing big words, in result unintentionally humiliating her self while embarassing her husband, Brett aswell but in turn providing humour for the audience.
In THE GLASSHOUSE, an ABC comdey pael t.v series, Will Anderson, one of the four members on the panel, uses facial expressions and hand gestures to describe and humilate a news reporter. Other members of the panel also use the same humour to express thier views. In KATH 'N' KIM, the way in which Kath walks, wears, facial expressions and body movement shows that she tries too hard to impress people and she thinks she is good when in fact she is portrayed as a loser an doesn't impress but in fact humiliates and degrades herself. The characters' accents, colloquial language and lifestyles show that this comdy is an unmistakeably Australian show.
Composers often use dialogue to highlight important aspects of society, such as traditon, competitiveness, commercialism, mateship and corruption though verbal dialogue such as irony, sarcasm, emotive language, jargon, colloquialism and slang, as well as non-verbal language such as facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement, stance and clothing to set the tone and mood of the show in order for the audience or readers to undertsand key issues, what the play is about, why is is humourous and what itis based on. Viewers can improve thier understanding of what is going on or if the show is comical, they will understand the intended humour.
damn thats alot! wel i hope it helps someone!
