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Book review of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Can be Undergrad or graduate. I used for my Creative Writing MA. Includes sources. Can customize for you if you'd like

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[...] thesis. Lindsay, J.W. (2018) Picnic at hanging rock. Australia, Penguin Books. Miller, R. (2016) Return to Hanging Rock: lost children in a Gothic landscape. Green Letters. [Online] 21 - 166. Available from: doi:10.1080/14688417.2016.1233822. O'Neill, T. (2012) Lindsay, Joan à Beckett (1896 - 1984). [...]

[...] that would later influence a key scene in Hanging Rock. Through comparing Lindsay's alma mater Clyde to Appleyard College, one can see that Appleyard mimics Clyde in certain ways, and definitely has the same framework. In Friths "Fact or Fiction in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1990) her in depth study of Lindsay's life reveals Lindsay' distaste for her formal education, a factor in the direction of the novel. Lindsay's housekeeper of many years described her as a "forceful woman who enjoyed having things her way." (Frith 1990, p. [...]

[...] The text is littered with " . little wolly white clouds were sailing across the dark spikes of the pine plantation on the mountain's crest." (Lindsay, 114). No detail is spared in showing the reader a precise view of Appleyard college and beyond. Malcolm Crick said "Picnic at Hanging Rock poses particular problems for structural analysis since it very much revolves around the inchoate, the unsystematic and the dissolution of order." (Wild, 124). This just goes to show that there are many possible interpretations of Lindsay's work, but that they all come back to her beautifully crafted unworldly setting. [...]

[...] However, I was left bereft of a magical experience while reading this book. I excitedly read Lindsay's preface: "Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide . all the characters who appear in this book are long since dead, it hardly seems important." After the excitement however, came the fall. I was disenchanted when I discovered the events in this book were not based on fact, however rooted in Lindsay''s childhood the setting may be. [...]

[...] Appleyard taking her own life at the Rock. An unpublished 18th chapter was published after Lindsay's death and in it the mystery is somewhat solved. The girls are swept into a dreamlike state at the top of the rock and Marion and Miranda go through a mystical crack in a rock. There is much talk around the verity of the 18th chapter, and whether or not it should have been published, originally or posthumously. However, one thing is clear; the mysterious 18th chapter still doesn't answer all of the readers' questions, nor does it satiate their hunger to know more about the mystery of Hanging Rock and its author. [...]