David Williamson. Essay dealing with themes/ideas in Williamson's "The Club" and "The Removalists"

Part A

In his scat The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes argon unsounded relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, although well-nigh of mannequin have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty years ago.

        Tradition plays a very important part in The Club. Each of the characters of course has his own ideas and attitudes towards tradition, but there are some which are more or less universal throughout the play. In The Club, tradition is mainly presented as the opposite to progress and achiever; that is, to achieve success in todays world, tradition must be abandoned. For example, Laurie (the coach) blames an old Club tradition for his failure to win a premiership, You and your cronies wouldnt let me grease ones palms players. Jock (the vice-president) replies, We were upholding an old tradition. It was wrong, but we believed in it. Then in the next line, Laurie acc mathematical functions Jock of supporting the break of the committee in upholding the tradition not because he believed in it himself, but because he didnt want Laurie to succeed, They might have believed in it but the reason why you wouldnt let the Club buy players was to stop me winning a flag.

        However, Jock does support and use tradition when it is in agreement with his goals. For example when trying to keep off a players strike, Jock claims that former Club heroes would be stimulate by the idea, I want to turn all those photographs around so they dont have to look down on this shameful scene. However, it is by and by revealed that Jock supports the buying of players and a coach who has not compete for the Club, both of which are against traditions,

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