A Comparison between The Drover’s Wife and Robbery under Arms.docVIP

A Comparison between The Drover’s Wife and Robbery under Arms Abstract：Rolf Bolderwood and Henry Lawson can best represent Australian literature writers, with their work frequently contrasted by readers. This paper makes contrasts between their representative works in genera. Keywords: contrasts; The Drovers Wife; Robbery under Arms 摘要：本文从不同角度对比了两篇文章,对于《畜牧者的妻子》和《武装抢劫》两篇文章所体现出的共同点加以排比并给出自己的观点。 关键词：对比 《畜牧者的妻子》 《武装抢劫》 The long novel Robbery under Arms written by Rolf Boldrwood and The Drovers Wife written by Henry Lawson, both of the two masterpieces has become an important landmark for the development of Australian literatrue, they are typical and representative for the local manners and cutoms. Here are the comparison between them in those following aspects: First of all , a comparison between the two authors and their writing style. Bolderwood was born earlier than Lawson, both of them were living in the period of great immigration of Brithish and the gold rush, thus in the story Robbery under Arms, we can see a real and magnificent spectacle of the gold rush. And besides, through The Drover?s Wife, Lawson depicted the miserable while hopeful life of a single mother of that period. Different from the long novels of Rolf Boldrwood, Henry Lawson was more good at writing short stories. When talking about the local scenery and Australian character, both of the two authors spent large amounts of words in describing it from various angles. Apart from that, there are many unique Australian animals and objects mentioned in the two articles, such as musk-duck, rock-wallaby, lowan, talegalla, veranda, undergrowth, swag and tucker, etc. All of them give the readers a lesson to learn the native geographical creatures and living habbits of the Australian. Last but not least, both works menntioned about the dog, the one named Alligator in The Drover?s Wife and the old Crib in Robbery under Arms, they were all loyal to their masters and played an important role i