“A Property Of the Clan” by Nick Enright: Analysis Essay

A attribute of the clan unravels the death of a teenage girl at an pocket-size drinking party and explores how the youths handle the situation.A Property of the Clan is not light entertainment, or an easy nobble to read. It deals with an ugly and disturbing subject, but does so in a thoughtful and sensitive way, acknowledging the brutal reality of violence against women as an unfortunate experience in life. The plot of A Property of the Clan is about teenage violence that existed within Australia at the time an example is that the language and actions teens make are actually abusive throughout the play when of all time they drink alcohol. The play contains many themes that involved the lifestyle of Australian youth including Surf culture, mateship, teenage rebellion, peer instancy and partying (Underage Drinking and Drug use).However, A Property of the Clan centralises on the idea of Mateship, where you are put into a position to do the right thing or betray your friend. Jare d is to choose either do the right thing and tell the police who the murderer is or to keep the secret. With supporting themes such as teenage rebellion where the person opposes their parents command, peer pressure level is when you are forced to do something because people are basically abusing you to do so otherwise you will be unpopular. Also the theme of partying is quite eventful to the Australian youth culture, compared to other countries. Australian teens tend to underage drink and abuse drugs more. It also explores the diminished responsibilities of people under the influence of alcohol and the shocking consequences of actions linking to the events in A Property of the Clan. A Property of the Clans targeted audience should be about 17 years old and over, whether a less mature person can understand and explore their own ideas and experience or as an adult (or parents) can further understand the ring culture their children are in due to the sensitive content. The main char acters from A Property of the Clan are from the surfing community of Newcastle, Australia. At the beginning of the play you can see the community in the play is quite rough, Ricko, an aggressive boy, is the leader of the group. The other characters always seem to be intimidated by him the kinship between Ricko and others is interesting because they know that he isnt a good person, but still hang out with him.This linksto the idea of mateship and peer pressure because of Rickos violent characteristics. People who watch this play will be influenced by the violence at first, but towards the end of the play, you can see the miscellany of Rickos characteristics transform from a Hardcore to week depressed teen when he admitted that he murdered the girl. The language of A Property of the Clan contains very Australian typical 1990s slang, using slang to communicate often, i.e Bush pig, Pay out and mate. Also the swearing is quite intemperate for a drama play being performed it contains a lot of swearing and abusive words.Bibiography Play script A Property Of The Clan