Picnic at Hanging Rock (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Universal character type representing broader ideas/patterns

Symbolic representations of Victorian society

Transcendent ideal whose absence catalyses chaos

Repressive colonial authority

Repressed adolescent desire colliding with Victorian discipline

Rational masculinity undone by feminine mystery

Pretty survivor whose return offers false closure

Class dunce who witnesses inexplicable terror

Absence itself (Miranda's disappearance)

Collectively rather than individually