A Comparison of The Drover’s Wife and The Neighbours.docVIP

A Comparison of The Drover?s Wife and The Neighbours The drover?s wife is one of Henry Lawson?s best known short story. Form the novel, we can get the feature and the basic writing style of Henry Lawson and the specific cultural background of that era as well as the country. Henry lawson?s writing style is featured by some specific things. From analysis of this short story, we can have some idea of it. Tim Winton is one of Austrilia?s famous modern novelist. Neighbours by Tim Winton is one of his famous short stor. The plot is very simple and easy to understand. From this short story, we can grasp some basic writing style of this writer and some fixed feature of the modern Austrilia literature. I will analysis this thesis through three sections. The two writers belonged to different era, therefore, they have different writing content and they foucus on different community and things, which has something to do with the fixed era and social background. Henry Lawson was born in 1867 and he died in 1922, when he wrote the drover?s wife, it was the late 19th century. According to the Austrilia literature of professor Huang, we know that it was a time of national literature, it was a time of gradually abandoning the immgrant influence on the indigenous literature, it wad a booming period of national cultural and nationalism The symbol of that period is the unique Australia bush, so basically all of the literature work of that special period is concentrated on bush and bush people? life. The deover?s wife is one of lawson?s best known work. It is a narration of a bush woman?s hard life. The comflict of this novel is between the snake and the woman. The woman want to kill that snake,otherwise the snake will bite one of her children, the author give us some informations of the bush woman?s harsh living enviroment and many other obstacle she must overcome by hersrelf. Tim winton was born in 1960, nowadays, he still is a active and fruitful writer in Australia literature