Henry Lawson, an Australian author, employs extensive imagery to create an Australian story. His writing engages the audience with the elements of Australia and narratives of surviving in the relentless and inhospitable environment. In order to co-exist with the nature, individuals may have to surrender their identity as well as luxuries, to develop protection against the relentlessness of the Australian outback. In The Drover’s Wife and In a Dry Season, Lawson explores the meaningful connections or a source of conflict that exist between the relationship of individuals and nature, through the loss and strength demonstrated …show more content…
The narrative starts with a dull tone, capturing the bleakness of the Australian bush. The use of imperative provides the audience with an image unchanging landscape by imitating an artist painting an artwork. The mundane description of the struggles of man, depicts the barren nature of the bush, as well as encapsulate the sources of conflict, forcing individuals to abandon their inhospitable home and search for a better place to sustain. The townspeople are all stereotypes or generalisations of groups of people in the monotonous outback. They are characterised though their clothing, where the accumulation highlights the people’s archaic and bizarre choices in fashion. This accumulation also exemplifies the deficiency of the townspeople in the barren bush. Sarcasm and Irony, further reinforces the menacing elements that envelop the bush. This elucidates that death is the only thing that could free the people from their tedious and isolated life. Therefore, Lawson displays the conflict of man and nature through the abandonment of man from nature to