Australia - Character Review

Australia is the second movie we watched during our English class. We all had fun with these two movie. After we watched this movie, we are given a task - write a bout a character review.

Lady Sarah Ashley
Set just before the South Pacific invasion during World War II, Australia centres on English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley who journeys to remote Northern Territory of Australia to persuade her husband sell his ranch and return to England together with her. Lady Sarah Ashley is the main character in the movie, Australia. She is a charming, confident and unique lady. She is an arrogant upper class woman who stays in London. She is also tall and elegant. She lives a luxury and comfortable life in London. However, she faces a lot of challenges since she goes to Australia. Finally, she falls in love with the Drover and marries with him.
She is a tough and brave woman. When she discovers the tragic death of her husband, it turns out she inherits the running of a cattle station, Faraway Downs. She accepts the fact sturdily and takes on the big responsibility with an open hand although she knows nothing about the cattle. Believing what a half-white, half-indigene boy, Nullah has told her, she gets help from a brawling, surly, no-nonsense vagrant called The Drover as an unlikely crew to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most deserted landscape to Darwin, in order to sell to the government, which is at war with the Japanese.
She has strong determination in order to achieve her goal. She dares to go with them and stays in the harsh environment in which she never stays before. She faces the obstacles along the journey which includes the fires and the poisoning of the water sources did by Fletcher. She never gives up in these circumstances.
She is loving and kind too. She becomes a surrogate mother to Nullah when Fletcher kills Nullah’s mother. She treats Nullah and his mother kindly unlike the other white people. She does not discriminate them. She even lays off Fletcher after seeing he mistreats Nullah. She loves Nullah just like her own son. She gives him everything and takes good care of him. She attempts to make the upper class whites realize that half-Aboriginal children belong to their mothers and not to the government in the ball of “Children Mission Island”. She is willing to protect and sacrifices for Nullah. At the end, she let him go as she knows that Nullah does not belong to anyone.
In the end, she outback together with Drover and live happily together. She learns to respect and cherish each others after they face lots of challenges and arguments.