1. How Heightended Contrasts Of Setting Create Meaning In A Fringe Of Leaves By Patrick White
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White is a novel whose major themes circulate around the protagonist Ellen, and her journey of self-discovery by breaking free of the moral and social conventions of her nineteenth-century Anglo-Centric society. By constructing various settings outside of the protagonist's comfortable environment that she is forced to encounter during the progression of events within the narrative, the novel A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White creates its meaning. ... When Ellen has been shipwrecked ashore the Australian mainland, she is faced with a society of people who ...
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