Dialogue is a powerful form of communication. It portrays immediate configurations seen throughout "The Club" by David Williamson and other various texts. It depicts relationships - how the characters relate to each other, who holds the power in the relationships, expresses ideas and attitudes, and conflicts implicated.
"The Club" is a play about the politics inside an Australian Rules football club. It examines power, class and progress cloaked in the context of sport. "The Club" is an expose of power struggles within an institution. Football is incidental in the exploration of the characters" motivations for power. All the characters have their agendas in the pursuit of power, which reflect their individual needs. The characters dialogue reflects their relationships through humour, irony, sarcasm, prejudice, power, tradition, and loyalty.
Gerry is the Club's Administrator. His dialogue offers an alternate manner by which he relates to other characters. Through his dialogue it is evident Gerry is the main conspirator. He is the instigator of manipulation, and his sole objective is to take advantage of his position to derive power and wealth from the Club. This is depicted from his dialogue by exhibiting an air of professionalism, and illustrates a skill in mediation and problem solving. He is not bound by complicated emotional ties, which allows for such deception and ruthlessness. He exerts his position by using economic jargon ("market price") and reinforces himself as the foremost football administrator " but I"m the best football administrator in the country-.
David Williamson satires the characters as a way of revealing the relationships and exposing personality traits of characters. The character Jock is revealed as being a very unlikable character, he is egocentric, gullible, prejudice and foolish. He gives long, verbose speeches about the Club's history and about past coaching and playing abilities.
Purpose of the Club We shall be known as the Success Club, and henceforth may be referred to as the Club in matters of discussion. ... We are the Success Club. ... Shall be responsible for overall operation of the club b. ... Shall keep track of all Club funds d. ... Shall be responsible for promoting the Club when possible c. ...
The ideas of the leaders of these groups are sometimes contrary to that of society, as in the movie "Fight Club". The main characters from "Fight Club" form a group that is centered on members taking their aggression out on the other members in order to cope with the issues that they are currently facing. The "Fight Club" allow the members to enter into a world in which pain and hurt distract them from the realities of the real world. The main character, Tyler, starts the "Fight Club" as a way of dealing with his problems and by doing this he incorporates Marla and Jack into this aggressive...
There are various types of clubs, including; RSL's, cultural, sporting clubs, and community clubs. ... Sport is a major focus of many clubs and in the whole of Australia, 11,980 sporting facilities have been provided by Clubs Australia (Clubs South Australia, 2011). ... Due to the fact that clubs are a non-profitable organization, food and drink offered at clubs have low mark-ups which make it affordable. ... The National Club Census (2012) found that the Australian club industry directly employs more than 96,000 people (Clubs South Australia, 2011). As well as the paid staff required fo...
Fight Club isn't about words (Palahniuk 55). ... No one, however, ever talked about Fight Club. The rules of the Fight Club were as follow: Rule #1: You do not talk about the Fight Club. Rule #2: You DO NOT talk about the Fight Club, Rule #3: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out; the fight is over Rule #4: Fight club exists only between the hours of when Fight Club starts and when Fight Club ends. ... After Fight Club, you"re just so relaxed you just cannot care," (Palahniuk 139) Fight Club calms you down so much. ...
Club Med After reading the article I can see that the strengths of Club Med are they have great word of mouth. Most people have heard of Club Med in one way or another. ... I thought Club Meds biggest strength was there price. ... Club Med must always have a high quality product. ... Club Med med has to live up to the customers expectations. ...
The protagonist of Fight Club enters the movie without a name. ... Fight Club was a therapy for the lost soul. ... Fight Club helped these working men relate to each other. Fight Club taught these working men what was truly important. ... Fight Club essentially, taught us the true meaning of life. ...
The Didactic Purpose of Fight Club Rarely does a modern novel or motion picture captivate the mind like Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. ... Times deems Fight Club " a witless mish mash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone crushing violence that actually thinks it's saying something of significance- (Fight Club: DVD Review, 1). ... If art can't examine those issues, then we are in a lot of trouble- (Fight Club: Supplemental disc, 27 min.). ... Transcendentalism, in all its forms, seeps out of Fight Club's pages and motion picture frames. ... The sarcastic tone of ...
The Cotton Club was an integral part of the Twenties and personified what this period of time stood for. ... Started by heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson at the corner of 42nd Street and Lenox Avenue, it was originally called Club De Lux. Failure of the club resulted in the selling of it in 1923 to gangster Owney Madden who dubbed it The Cotton Club. ... The Cotton club became the most popular club in not only Harlem, but also all of New York. ... "Featuring the most talented and best black entertainers, the Cotton Club brought out a host of celebrity clientele" (Cotton). ...
Fight Club is a film directed by David Fincher which was released in 1999. ... At first you wonder what Fight Club really is in the film. ... The members of Fight Club were all middle class citizens. ... At last I want to discuss is what homoeroticism meant in the movie Fight Club. ... Remember no women were in Fight Club. ...
"Fight club"; directed by David Fincher (1999), is a movie that holds many themes. ... This club is a place where they can fight each other and feel like real men again. ... Similarly, another male character, known as Angelface, is also a member of Fight Club. ... The Fight Club is liberation, an escape for the members. They forget their normal weekend jobs and responsibilities and during Fight Club, all men are equals. ...
