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My Brilliant Career Essay How far are the film and novel versions of My Brilliant Career feminist in their interpretation? My Brilliant Career was a coming of age story based on the Miles Franklin's book of the same title. It told the journey towards maturity of an idealistic and headstrong girl, Sybylla Melvin who had been raised in relative poverty on her father's property in the Australian bush during the 1890's. Her journey was enriched …

…novel both contain characters besides Sybylla that hold both feminist and antifeminist ideals. Frank Hawden is portrayed to be patronising and arrogant and displays anti feministic tendencies, he expects Sybylla to fall in love with him because only of the fact that he is the only male around and he will inherit a great deal of money. Both the novel and the film hold feminist ideals through their interpretation through varying techniques and character portrayals.