Themes Depicted in the Play "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"

"17-year-old baby's summer" is an eternal game as it can be converted to the same as today. Play is essentially a tragic comedy, but drama is about change, some people's opinion that it can not deal with it, dream and reality struggle, and loyalty and cooperation are not all. It is also a social document of Australia in the 1950s. Lawler effectively expresses his emotions to the audience using symbols, movement of characters, dramatic structure, and scenes.

The summer of a 17 - year - old baby is seen as "a masterpiece and turning point of the Australian Theater" for its various purposes, its vivid reality, color, language and theme contribute to its success. The dolls somehow managed to make a big breakthrough at the Australian theater, shape their work into realism to the playwrights, encouraged them to deeply think and respect the drama of nutrition. The success of the doll is obvious at this time, and even after years, students in Australia are still studying hard and evaluating.

The summer of a 17 - year - old baby criticized and explored the theme of growth, copulation, conflict between dream and reality, and time corrosion effect. In the drama, the Australian "hero" was deprived of his stereotype, and as an ordinary old man, was exposed to the naked truth. Corruption of olive dreams clearly provides a well-known relationship between dreams and reality. Olive shows the way the audience keeps their dreams while hampering growth and maturation. Compared with other people, the originality of the play is that it includes realism. The doll follows the ordinary Australians and speaks in a language spoken with distinct Australian accents. Directly, when the audience listened to the character's voice for the first time, and saw the character's dress, experience and character problems, the audience said that the doll was unique to the other drama produced at the then Australian theater It was very clear.

The theater and our society have changed, but as the first step of the month is a historical advance, the doll also made a big progress in the history of Australia, so the summer of the 17th baby It is still very important and meaningful. It shaped and strengthened the screenplay that debuted after production and awakened the new genre and experience for Australian theaters, and now I can not sleep for years. "The doll is not the fault of the Australians, but because of its universality still attracts the audience, it's about dramas of ordinary people, people can touch it soon The heart of the drama is sorrow of despair. "