Power? Power is frequently defined as the ability to influence the behaviour of people with or without resistance. The term authority is often used for power perceived as a legitimate by the social structure. Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as common to humans as social beings. Good morning senior study today I’ll be discussing the use of power in 2 texts that would be perfect for the study guide creation. The two texts I have chosen to talk about today are “The Club” a play, by David Williamson studied in class and “Weapons Training” a poem by Bruce Dawe. These both share the concept of power throughout the text and are evident through quotes and techniques.
David Williamson engages power throughout his whole text as each individual character plays a different role and position in the committee. Most of the play he has based on the power struggles involving the characters. The power between Laurie and Jock is evident by Laurie’s accusation that Jock only supported the committee traditional approach to stop Laurie from succeeding. “They might have believed in it but the reason why wouldn’t let the club buy players was to stop me winning a flag.” Williamson uses diction and tone to bring out the responders. Tone is the pattern of pitch and stress in spoken language that conveys a speaker’s feelings to the listener. Diction is the specific word choice used in the characters conversation. Williamson’s purpose of using these 2 techniques is to suggest and identifies us how sceaming and manipulative Jock is so he can achieve and accomplish his own hidden agenda’s also as he criticizes Laurie and doesn’t want him to buy players. This quote gives me an understanding of how Jock wants to keep his legacy going and feels he has the power to control that as he doesn’t want the team to improve as he knows he has a good coach Laurie to change it to a first class team. This example from the club associates back to the question...