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white Australian culture. These two theatre pieces also have thematic parallels which include life, death, grief, guilt, isolation, regret and anger. These themes are expressed through the way in which the characters relate to one another and their emotions are reflected through these relationships which are influenced and shaped by the freedom and constraints that their environments hold. The world is made up of life and life is the central thing that people, animals and nature all have in common. It is what makes the world united without having to take into account religion, skin colour, language or gender. The purpose for living beings is to live and this is what is at the centre of the two plays, Garry’s house and the seven stages of grieving. In Garry’s house, it is life that is the reason for the five characters to hold relationships together and it is life that helps all, bar Garry, to push through past their own selfish desires and attitudes to see the needs of the baby and in that frame of mind, the characters change accordingly to meet the needs that have been neglected or not completed.
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