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Alter-ego Puck
Mentor to characters in crisis
Social engineer of play
Ironically, given his impending death, he becomes a source of life and
radiance
Tom represents Everyman dreams, fears, aspirations of Australian
youth today
Time-bomb
In both Shakespearean and classical Greek drama and in Away, the
purpose of each characters journey is to gain self-knowledge
Tom is referred to as a Chips Rafferty by both his headmaster and his
father, that is, he is regarded as an accomplished thespian. In this way
Gow elevates an average teenagers life into that of a hero, a character
who will impact on others behaviour and change them, for the better
sacrificing his own life in return.