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    Black Diggers Structural Features

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    The document discusses the structure and themes of the play "Black Diggers". It is broken into five parts that reflect the experience of Indigenous Australians from pre-nationhood through their enlistment in wars, experiences at the front, return from war, and legacy. The play uses multiple perspectives through nine central Indigenous characters and tells the story in fragments to represent the fragmentation of Aboriginal and white societies. It employs metaphor and irony to explore the enduring trauma of war and destruction of Indigenous lands.

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    The document discusses the structure and themes of the play "Black Diggers". It is broken into five parts that reflect the experience of Indigenous Australians from pre-nationhood through their enlistment in wars, experiences at the front, return from war, and legacy. The play uses multiple perspectives through nine central Indigenous characters and tells the story in fragments to represent the fragmentation of Aboriginal and white societies. It employs metaphor and irony to explore the enduring trauma of war and destruction of Indigenous lands.

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    The document discusses the structure and themes of the play "Black Diggers". It is broken into five parts that reflect the experience of Indigenous Australians from pre-nationhood through their enlistment in wars, experiences at the front, return from war, and legacy. The play uses multiple perspectives through nine central Indigenous characters and tells the story in fragments to represent the fragmentation of Aboriginal and white societies. It employs metaphor and irony to explore the enduring trauma of war and destruction of Indigenous lands.

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    Black Diggers Structural Features

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    The document discusses the structure and themes of the play "Black Diggers". It is broken into five parts that reflect the experience of Indigenous Australians from pre-nationhood through their enlistment in wars, experiences at the front, return from war, and legacy. The play uses multiple perspectives through nine central Indigenous characters and tells the story in fragments to represent the fragmentation of Aboriginal and white societies. It employs metaphor and irony to explore the enduring trauma of war and destruction of Indigenous lands.

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    Black diggers structural features

    Irony: “Cooee and let our brothers hear”. (Song ‘Sons of the Southern Cross, Page 17). This is ironic
    as the Aboriginal Australians were excluded from society. Irony.

    Metaphor: The bullet casing hidden in Ern is a metaphor of the enduring and often hidden trauma of
    war that inches its way up years after the fact.

    Metaphor: Grandad reminisces about how beautiful his land used to be, before white soldiers
    destroyed it for irrigation, a metaphor for Bertie’s own destruction in the war.

    The play uses colloquial language.

    Five parts

    As explained, the play is broken into five parts.

    - Pre-nation: a reflection on the wars and experience of Indigenous people before nationhood
    - Enlistment: the process of Indigenous people signing up
    - The Theatre of the War: the stories from the front as reported in journals, letters, official
    records and oral history.
    - The Return: the effects of returning and the expectations of both the men who returned and
    those they were returning to.
    - Legacy- what has been left behind for us.

    Black diggers has several perspectives that it is being told from. The play contains nine central
    Indigenous characters, each one portraying their voice through language.

    The story is told in fragments, i.e not in chronological order. This symbolizes the fragmentation
    of Aboriginal Australians and white people. It shows how Aborigines were constantly excluded
    from their society.

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