Comparison Essay of Smasher, Blackwood and Thornhill Simran Kaur Gill 11th Grade

New South Wales is more a battlefield than it is a colony. Smasher is the vicious commander steering colonization forward where else Blackwood is an innocent bystander protesting the war. New South Wales is the beginning of colonization; firstly, instead of troops, Britain sent convicts to live there. The idea that a convict will always have a criminal mind/criminal tendencies is certainly true here as New South Wales quickly turned into a violent colony, unlike the peaceful colonies Britain had in India for example. Additionally, the colonizers in New South Wales did not exploit the locals, like how the British exploited the locals in Malaya by making them harvest raw materials for Britain to export. Instead, they were more concerned about showing superiority over the locals.

Smasher’s hatred for the aboriginals is very clear from the way he talks about them, referring to them as ‘savages’ and also by the way he abuses them. He treats them worse than animals. By kidnapping a native woman and using her as a sex slave to fulfill his sexual desires, Smasher shows a behavior pattern similar to a typical colonizer. He craves the power that colonialism gives him and it fuels the belief in him that he is better and more superior as...