Rainbow’s End by Jane Harrison: an essay-writing guide

Description While Jane Harrison’s first play Stolen focuses on traumatic separation and its aftermath and the loss of family and cultural identities, Rainbow’s End deals with the “unsung” heroes living on The Flats in Shepparton in the 1950s. The families battle floods, sub-standard living conditions and racist policies.   Harrison pays particular tribute to the women, who “fought the good fight in their daily struggles to keep their families together, house, feed, cloth, educate and, above all, love and protect their children”. 1. Act One: Analysis of characters and themes 2. Act Two: Analysis of characters and themes 3. The social, political and racial context 4. Theatrical conventions 5. Essay Plan – Key Ideas 6. Planning your essay This essay-writing guide consists of tips for A essays:  how to contextualise Harrison’s views and values; how to embed references to the historical and cultural world of the text; how to include stage-directions and stage-craft; how to include quotes and tonal and stylistic features. Tweet