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 creating a contrast between the values and attitudes of this dominant society of the particular time in history - and Ellen's dependence upon it for structure and stability - and settings within the text which contain societies who do not conform with such social restraints, the novel creates an even greater contrast between Ellen's respon...
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