He witnesses Jeffries murdering and raping Indigenous Australians and eventually kills him in self-defence after Jeffries attacks him. Plot Summary (1) In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. Parents Guide. Oscar and Lucinda Summary. Hasset instructs her in the properties of glass; d’Abbs handles the finances. He sees betting as a vile monster that he must, yet cannot, deny. She is forced to leave the subdivided farm for the city, determined to experience the working world. In 1859, in order to purchase the glassworks, Lucinda seeks assistance from Dennis Hasset, a vicar with a fascination with glass, and Jimmy d’Abbs, an accountant. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory with her money and takes to gambling after her accountant introduces her to it. [citation needed], The soundtrack to Oscar and Lucinda was released by CBS Masterworks Records on 9 December 1997 in Australia and the United States, it was recorded by Thomas Newman and the Bruckner Orchestra. Themes; Style; Quotes. Learn more. Lucinda’s father is killed by a horse in 1852, and Lucinda’s mother dies when Lucinda is seventeen. This study guide contains the following sections: Plot Summary; Chapters; Characters; Objects/Places. | She has been in London to study glass manufacture. In New South Wales, Oscar lives within hearing of the Randwick racecourse. We see them formed by their early lives; he studies for the ministry, she inherits a glassworks and becomes obsessed with glass, and they meet during an ocean voyage from England to Australia. The bishop directs that Lucinda’s friend be sent to the rough town of Boat Harbour. When she goes in search of the game below decks, she finds herself face to face with Oscar by chance. [3], Filming took place in Sydney (as well in the Sydney suburbs of Glebe and Randwick) and all around New South Wales. Oscar and Lucinda is a satire about two star-crossed lovers that takes place in the mid-nineteenth century. Oscar is shy and painfully sincere, Lucinda has evaded her century's strictures on women by finding a private passion, and they would both agree, I believe, that people who worship in glass churches should not throw stones. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. [2] In March 1998, the film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design. In March 1998, the film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design. Plot. Bestsellers / Contemporary Fiction. The film grossed $4,953,510 between USA, Australia, UK and Germany. They play cards together until Oscar becomes panicked at the sight of a storm. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. She watches as Oscar, blindfolded and terrified, is lowered onto the ship in one of the cattle cages. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “Oscar and Lucinda” by Peter Carey. In 1856, Theophilus Hopkins, a preacher for the Plymouth Brethren, does not acknowledge the festive trappings of Christmas. For madness, this matches the obsession in Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" to move a steamship across a strip of dry land. "Oscar and Lucinda" begins with the look of a period literary adaptation, but this is not Dickens, Austen, Forster or James; Carey's novel is playful and manipulative, and so is the film. In many period films, we are always aware that we're watching the past: Here Oscar and Lucinda seem ahead of us, filled with freshness and invention, and only the narration (by Geoffrey Rush of "Shine") reminds us that they were, incredibly, someone's grandparents. Plot. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.