MY BRILLIANT CAREER THEMES ESSAY

Themes play a very significant role in the novel My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, helping to develop the plot and characters. Themes like Australian society and wealth and poverty impact the way in which Sybylla is able to live her life; as do the ideals of marriage with which Sybylla is confronted. These themes impact and even control the way in which the characters are able to live out their lives.

In the late 1800’s society played a consequential part in the way people could live their lives. Sybylla wants to break free from the shackles of society and live her life the way that she wants. “Career! That is all girls think of now, instead of being good wives and mothers and attending to their homes.” Sybylla does not want to get married and have children as society is pressing her to do, she wants a career, a life and an identity outside of whom she is married to and how much power he wields. Society back then was very racist. People from other countries w...