Coral is at the other end of the spectrum to Gwen in terms of values and approach to life and yet she undergoes a change just as profound. A fundamental difference that Coral displays is her lack of concern with the material world. When Roy exhorts her to “ come back to reality” she replies “she might not like it there”. Coral’s change includes facing the loss of her identity. Coral’s whole existence is suffused with the sadness with the loss of her son. Roy is infuriated and embarrassed by her unusual manner when she is in public but his anger exhortations for her to behave more “normally” have little effect on Coral. She acts like a child who will try very hard to do as expected “I’ll be good! I will improve.. Watch me get better…. I’ll be clam, interested, aware of people, I’ll have fun”. Coral does has something in common with Gwen, Neither of them are capable of having fun. Roy pleas for Coral to “be like you were” for it is clear that she is changed from the woman who used to remind him of Kim Novak, who was romantic and beautiful and full of fun. Rick brings back many memories of Corals son as she produces strangers on the shore this desire to be with the dead is transformed into the ability to walk with the living. Coral, as the mermaid says “I cannot walk, I am afraid” it is analogous to what she has been saying through her behaviour, that is, I am afraid of change in my life while my son is not with me. When tom as the sailor says” I will show you how” demonstrating that is possible to change. Coral has seemed somewhat passive but the intensity of the conflict she feels with Roy forces her to act and make a radical change in her life. Just as Gwen acted to determine her life for herself when she left her family. Coral takes action to free her from Roy’s expectations and threats. She is able to express publicly what she could only hide in the dark before. “What’s the word they say in those plays? Alas”
“The Conciliation” by Benjamin Duterreau, 1840. Where Changes are taken place through history by George Robinson. Robinson’s aim was to take remaining aborigines from Tasmania and move them to a remote protected place; never making an allowance for the dramatic amount of change it would create to these peoples lives. They were not allowed to continue on as they were; the dramatic changes were forced upon them. The Lieutenant Governor and Robinson believed they were protecting the aborigines from slaughter. Robinson was preparing them for civilization and to arrange them to live in a white society. It was unsuccessful as they were unhappy since his treatment towards them involved separation of families and prison like routines.
The Conciliation is not only a celebration of Robinson’s achievements but also a lesson for the existing and succeeding generations “ to show the advantage of mild and gentle treatment and final superiority over bloodshed.
We use this text in contrast with text 2b were “the national picture by Geoff Parr in 1985. Parr appropriates Dutteraus work through the medium of photography. Parr reconstructs the viewer intertextuality and transformation, which causes the viewer to reflect the changes in society and how our values and attitudes may have changed over the last 150 years. Parr would certainly suggest that change is necessary.
In the oil canvas, Triganini was seen as a woman persuading her fellow tribe members by holding and pulling her friends towards Robinson and his ideas, not wanting to continue as they were but influencing change towards the environment they lived in. Her presence made an extreme impact and change towards this situation. Triganini was one of the nine aboriginals Robinson took with him to persuade the remaining that the changes he intended on making for these people were the best. She had sometimes been called a traitor but usually considered as a victim.
Trugininis image (photograph) is superimposed on the black figure dressed in white. This was Parr’s way of emphasizing Trugininis enthusiasm to the conversion of black society to not continue on as they were but to do as she had and not resist change. The surveying equipment is symbolic of growth, building and claiming the land. Jeans are an icon or our lifestyles, casual and laid back. The suit worn by the older figure is representative of the business/corporate changes and the political world along with the sterioplayer representative of the growing technological changes of the music industries including all technologies. The esky is another icon of our outdoor leisure and lifestyle. The skin of a kangaroo reflects the attitudes of people towards the environment and animal species. The sense of the “set” suggests it is just that a play of what is the truth; maybe it is all staged, as aborigines still don’t have the authority that Robinson had over the Aborigines. The man in the suit makes this clear to us.
Change is evident in our everyday lives as through each generation acceptance and equal rights become acknowledged among both males and females. In the early sixties women were taken advantage of by restricting them to household duties to care for their houses children in particular husbands. The verification against the phrase “we continue as we are unchanged and unchanging is evident as we compare these times to the generation we live in today. The women of the 20th century have changed from being the figure seen as the loving adjusted house wife which in those days the tv image tuned till perfection, to today’s leather wearing strong and sexy, physically active women without a man by her side. La Femme Fatale is a newspaper article that expresses the changing nature of women in TV dramas
Women are out of the kitchen and into the action figure sexy and slim women of today’s television. Out of star trek voyager series Gere Ryan, wears a skintight blue suit. Sexy, yet still so intelligent looking enough to get ratings through the roof. Now compare this to your average pot roast cooking housewife dramas. Not only has the freedom for women changed but change is evident the forms of technology used in the series of star trek another brave figure which represents the changing nature of women in TV drama.
From La Femme Lakida Played by Peta Wilson, the sexy, pouty, gorgeous blonde heroin hitting the screens, making bit hits on small cable. Lekeda is a reluctant assassin, whom only kills in self-defense. To character like Xena the warrior Princess played by Lucy Lawless. The all woman, tough, brave figure willing to take on the bad guy is a feminist icon to all lesbian women. Proving the change in acceptance to sexuality allowing Xena to be viewed as a lesbian pin up girl. As you can see Lakida and Xena differ from the usual form of a woman, they are strong, invincible and willing to kick butt. This significant change could not have been possible without the time and efforts and Mary Richards. Mary has spawned the mass of women on TV, many of which have their own shows today all to her thanks. Mary Richards was a hard workingwomen who threw her hat up in the air, through sheer joy after the evolution of these characters.
Women are portrayed differently; they have changed dramatically, particularly in the TV industry. Women were once accessories, but that has changed as they are now respected and successful
The times, as they say, a changing