English Standard Essay

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Analyse how language is used in your prescribed text to express community identity.

Intro/Point: Expression of community identity within prescribed texts, ‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘Our Pipes’ and ‘Shooting the Moon’ are shown through effective use of language devices combined with implemented themes and  ideas constructed throughout said texts.

Explain/Example: In prescribed text ‘The Drover’s Wife’, techniques such as imagery and repetition are already painting the picture on the environmental position that The Drover’s Wife is put in. The Drover’s Wife is set in the bush, creating cultural isolation, she is stripped from normal daily social interactions which displays her to be unusual or out of the ordinary. The isolation differentiates her from the typical person within a normal society showing more of her community identity. Repetition in The Drover’s Wife is used by the continual application of imagery enforced throughout the text, to create an idea of community identity cohesively. The Drover’s Wife is shown to be strong, and courageous, further dilating her identity from other women within society, this theme of the wife contributing to the ‘men's jobs’ creates a contradictory anomaly. She fights as seen: “she fought a bushfire”, “She fought a flood” and “She fought a mad bullock!”, which is no normal behaviour coming from a wife in the 19th century. However, with all of these themes showing her as a tough, strong woman, she does not fail at being a mother after all, she is pragmatic as well as loving and caring for her children as seen: “she hugs him to her worn out breast and kisses him”, she is empathetic when she needs to be, whilst maintaining a strict parenthood most of the time. Her community identity is now hinted towards a slightly more loving mother for her children, pulling her closer to a typical mother in the 19th century.

Analysis: The Drover’s Wife has many underlying themes and ideas that position viewers to understand the community identity of a wife as she is not like other wives during the 19th century. The text uses a variety of different language techniques such as collective imagery, and settings to give context around The Drover’s Wife’s community identity, it uses colloquial language very effectively to allow for a cultural background of the wife, this gives more of a cultural identity for the wife as well as expression for her children’s identity within the Australian outback. Anomalies are spread throughout to shape more meaning/positioning that the drover’s wife is going through, she is of low socio-economic status, forced in the outback to look after her children whilst maintaining the jobs of the male which develops more abnormal behaviour. The author displays the language in a quite simple form, the text uses simple wording, making for effective expression of community identity, however, viewing the text from a different cultural background from that of an Australian’s would mean the analysis of the colloquial language is much more difficult.

Evaluation: Overall, The Drover’s Wife is effective at expressing the characters community identity because of the combination of language devices such as imagery and colloquial language, as well as the simple writing formatting and structure.