The Well Literary Elements

The Well Literary Elements

Director

Samantha Lang

Leading Actors/Actresses

Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto

Supporting Actors/Actresses

Paul Chubb, Frank Wilson

Genre

Drama

Language

English language

Awards

AFI awards, FCCA awards

Date of Release

31 July 1998 (USA)

Producer

Sandra Levy

Setting and Context

a farm in Australia

Narrator and Point of View

Third person omniscient

Tone and Mood

Tone: indirect, questioning
Mood: anxious, jealous

Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist: Hester Harper; Antagonist: Hester's fear of loneliness which makes her obsessed with Katherine

Major Conflict

Hester takes under her care a young orphan girl called Katherine.

Climax

The well gets sealed and Hester begins to accept the fact that she can't keep Katherine to herself.

Foreshadowing

"I don't care if we are alone here," she said. "Dogs don't save people if strangers come."

- A stranger will indeed come and it might have been better if the two women had a dog to watch the house while they are gone.

Understatement

N/A

Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques

N/A

Allusions

"She thought about the word meadow, a grassy paradise- someone had written that about a meadow."

Paradox

"She felt sure, she said, dismissing the ancient mixture of manipulation and devotion, that the troll would be the best person to haul up from the bottom of the well."

Parallelism

"She felt as if her hair was loose and as if her clothes were bright and light and as if they moved too, easily with her own rhythm.
She felt free of bitterness, jealousy and longing."

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