Travelling North (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: David Williamson
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1969-1972
- Setting: Australia
- Genres: Social realism, Drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Parents and children, Love or romance, Death or dying, Old age or elderly people, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia
Characters Discussed
Frank, a retired construction engineer and widower, more than seventy years old, from Melbourne, Australia. He has taken his lover, Frances, north to live in a small cottage in a remote tropical area in Queensland, where he intends to escape people and examine the meaning of his life. A disenchanted former Communist and an atheist, he is an assertively self-assured man governed by his own rationality. He sees the world in terms of measurable quantities capable of explanation or analysis. Direct and opinionated, he does not relate to people easily. Estranged...
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