Tempest & Explorers
Compare how two prescribed texts you have studied explore the tension between humanity and the natural world.The tensions between human aspirations are their perceptions of the wild and the reality of the forces of nature have been shaped in both complimentary and contracting ways in the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare, and Tim Flannery's The Explores, a collection of diary entries of explorers of Australia. In particular, the entries Coal Black and Stark Naked by Jan Carstensz 1623, Panic and Shake by Robyn Davidson 1977, and The Little Explorer's Diary by Emily Caroline Creaghe 1883, show the extent of the relationship between human perceptions of the wild and the reality in which they are confronted, both in The Tempest and in The Explorers. Through the exploration diaries of Jan Carstensz we are able to conclude that he initiated a large degree of conflict or tension between the civilised world and humanity. We join Carstensz on his journey of exploration with ten musketeers, portraying the assumption that in his view, the world and its inhabitants were hostile. Carstensz exhibits a negative attitude toward the wild, and this is evident through his comment regarding the foreign landscape. "This is the most ba
" An aggressive nature is shown towards one of the aboriginal inhabitants when he is kidnapped by Carstensz to aid in the exploration of "their ways and customs. As Davidson describes, the wild in a foreign context, such as in contact with the natural world "There is no reference points. In Robyn Davidson's account, we join her on her journey of self discovery, at a time where she feels fragile, vulnerable, and hopeless. She is very aware of the natural world and because of her seemingly desperate predicament she regards the natural world as being cruel and hostile "The country seemed alien, faded, muted, the silence hostile, overwhelming". This can be seen as a result of going in the wild, into a foreign place where "there (are) no reference points" as asserted by Davidson and "the elements" are "the ministers of fate" as described by Shakespeare through the symbolism of the element air with spirit Ariel. It is clear in The Tempest and The Explorers that tensions exist between human aspirations. rren and arid land I have ever seen". The unpredictability and the rhythms, as their safety mechanisms "weapons" are "tempered" by nature and it has the capacity to destroy them. The Australian landscape is one he is unfamiliar with, and his insecurity is shown through this comment. " When his tribe tried to rescue him, one of them was shot dead. It is clear through Caliban's description of the wild as harbouring "sounds and sweet airs that delight and hurt not" that those that love in harmony with nature, their perception of nature is not an idealistic perception of it. She regards the world as being cold, cruel and menacing "I walked out into that evil whispering sea. Carstensz tone is cynical and objective and this is demonstrated though his quote "The inhabitants, too, are the most wretched and poorest creatures that I have ever seen in my age or time. Davidson only carries a gun for her own personal protection and only uses it if it is absolutely necessary.
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