1. Family in The One Day of the Year
... and a protagonist, is the educated son of ex war veteran Alf Cook. Due to a vast range of factors, Hughie becomes liberated and thus begins the deterioration of the traditional family stance. Seymour represents this challenging of established family dynamics through the concepts of educational background, Australian cultural identity and generational differences. Throughout the drama, all Seymour's characters discard this notion of ... the representation of an alternative father figure that deviates from the traditional. The father, as dictated by traditional expectations, is accepted a...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate