Merchant of Venice
The pound of flesh is a motif for what?
Name three concepts that the texts explore.
Gender expectations, mental health, time
The structure you have to follow in your essay?
1. Preludes or Rhapsody
2. Long Song or Hollow Men
3. Magi
What are the three types of experiences from Common Mod?
Inconsistency, anomaly, paradox
Woolf's distinct writing technique?
Stream of consciousness
What paradox does does Shylock's character encapsulate?
The simultaneousness of bring a victim and villain
What is one motif seen in both texts?
Water and drowning OR time and clocks
Three different ways to say spiritual emptiness
Disillusionment, disenchantment, ennui, stagnation, spiritual fragmentation etc.
The three verbs in the rubric for Mod A about how the texts interact?
Mirror, align, collide
Difference between monologue and soliloquy?
Monologue: the audience and characters can hear it
Soliloquy: only the audience can hear it
What paradox does Shylock AND Portia endure?
In order to escape one's oppression, you must perpetuate it
Two key contextual points of Eliot that exacerbated his spiritual emptiness?
1. Rising industrialisation
2. Post WW1
Shakespeare writes in two ways. What are they and when are they used?
Prose: to indicate a character/topic of lower esteem
Verse: to indicate a character/topic of higher esteem
Shylock speaks in prose for his monologue in Act 3. What's the significance of this?
- highlighting the low esteem that Shakespeare thought of revenge
By reimagining, what does Daldry reveal about gender expectations over the years?
While the boundaries have become more flexible, they have not changed enough - people still suffer because of it
In order to push yourself up in Mod A, you need to explore how the new text creates what for the old text?
Any answers about: new meaning, relevance, what it reveals about how society has changed but humans haven't
What are three disctinctive features of Eliot?
Allusion, urban imagery, fragmented structure, interior monoogue, combination of meters, shifts between high diction and colloquialism
Why is the opening line, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." and the reciting of the line in the film so significant?
- self-emancipation from the patriarchy
EXT: the necessity in proclaiming such a small act of emancipating ourselves from the patriarchy highlights how entrenched we are in it
What does Magi ultimately reveal about spiritual emptiness?
The remedy to it is religion, but if we are unable to find a community who have the same values, spiritual emptiness will always return
What are the three components of textual integrity for Mod B?
Comes together as one, there are universal themes, generates critical engagement