Away Michael Gow Journey Analysis

No journey is complete without a change in perspective. Journeys are things that everyone will experience in their lifetime. Through journeys, whether physical, intellectual or emotional, people will inevitability experience a change in perception. Michael Gow’s play Away explores the physical holiday journey of three families and how it impacts them in emotionally and intellectually. As this play presents numerous changes for each different character, this paper will focus solely on the changes we see in the character of Gwen. J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit explicate how the unlikely hero’s change in perspective during his adventure. By deconstructing each of these texts and characters, one can assess that journeys brings growth and changes in perspective.
Journeys can transform one’s conflicts and denials into reconciliation and acceptance. In the play Away by Michael Gow, Gwen’s physical journey to the beach brought her some emotional and intellectual changes. We first meet Gwen in act one scene
R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. His maturity is similar to both Gwen’s emotional reconciliation and Hall’s intellectual development. Bilbo is a hobbit, “a short, human-like person”, who prefers domesticity to adventure, as his race is not known for their audacious nature. Gandalf, a wise old wizard, has come to take Bilbo on an adventure but he is not having any of it. In his desperation to get out of having tea with his company, he tells Gandalf to come back for tea anytime, even tomorrow. This justifies that Bilbo is comfortable with his current style of living therefore he denies such opportunity of venture and discovery. He is anxious of leaving his familiar surroundings for fear he might lose this sense of security. He, as we audience can see, is hardly the raw material of a hero although as the story progresses he grows into a courageous and intelligent