Heart of Darkness
The main character
Who is Marlow?
The author
The war that MGRITS is about
World War II
The main character
The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony
The setting for the majority of the play
What is the Congo?
Xenophobia
The book the play is based on
Merry-Go-Round In The Sea by Randolph Stow
The murderer of Nicholas
Perdita
The main reading of Kinsella's work
Ecocritical
Two speakers in the novel
Marlow and Narrator
The Act that Gino dies in
Act II
The kind of stage used
A revolve and a cyclorama
Name three of the Shakespeare's plays used in Sorry
Hamlet; The Winter's Tale; Macbeth; King Lear; The Tempest; Othello; King Richard II
The style of poetry used by Kinsella
Free verse
The people Marlow and Kirk are based off of
Marlow - Joseph Conrad
Kirk - King Leopald II
3 key themes
Acceptance and Belonging; Power, Freedom and Equality; Tolerance and Understanding; Racism; Change; National Identity/Australian Society; Violence; Awareness
“Look, kid, I’ve outgrown you. I don’t want a family. I don’t want a country. Families and countries are biological accidents. I’ve grown up and I’m on my own.”
The scene this takes place and the speaker
Rick, in Act 2, Scene 16 (final scene)
The significant event that inspired the novel
Stolen Generations
The poem with the long name...name it
On Arriving At A Deserted House Deep In The Country After Running Over A Rabbit On A Gravel Road, At Night
The reading that the following line supports:
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth
Colonial/Post-colonial
Finish:
The one on the right forms an almost formidable barrier;
a length of barbed wire even running along its top
The merry-go-round symbol's meaning
Child-like logic versus reality
Children focusing on positive and happy things rather than the brutal reality of the war
“She captured and killed a red-bellied black snake, whipping it onto a rock, breaking first its back and then crushing its head with her digging stick”
The symbol this line represents and what the symbol conveys.
The snake - represents the evil in Imperial control
What poem has the final lines:
Furious he was – the salt left lines on the bath, the soap wouldn’t later
Why They Stripped the Last Tree from the banks of the Creeks