Triumph of Will Over Circumstances Juxtaposition of Select Plays of Canada and Australia

Abstract

There are black pages in the history of each nation, which the nations do not want to revisit. The period of supremacy and control is idealised and idolized in terms of colonisation, reducing human beings, and social events into mute spectators. Each country s trauma, agony, pain, and suffering have volumes to say but are mostly hidden behind the setters interpretation of the Indigenous people as barbarians and cultureless people. This colonial past has remembrances, and reminiscences which have impacted the growth, development, and prosperity of nations that have been colonised. Canada, a democratic country with a highly globalised economy in the present day, has been a nation of wilderness with its indigenous history aging thousands of years back. Like Canada, Australia, otherwise referred to as the bush continent has once been a virgin land with an abundant landscape, and wilderness, and has been home to nomadic natives who have lived there since time immemorial. The British settlers have played a major role in the erasure and upheaval of the Indigenous culture, their lands and their identity. This study conducts a qualitative analysis of Select dramas from Canada and Australia, both settler colonies with a significant Indigenous heritage that has been disrupted due to colonisation. Four dramas from two nations have been chosen for detailed textual analysis studied through the lens of Intergenerational Trauma theory and Resilience theory. newlineKeywords: Trauma, Resilience, Indigenous people, Settlers, Scoop of the Sixties, Stolen Generation. newline newline