Themes
Name 1 of 3 chosen themes prominent in Claude McKay's If We Must Die
1 Resistance/Retaliation, 2 Dignity, 3 Courage
Event that happened from 1914-1918 and led to Britain's decline as the world's biggest economic power
World War I
Held the British throne from 1910-1936, king during the first World War, represented a "peculiarly golden" period known as the '_____ian Period'
King George V
“Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back”
McKay, If We Must Die
Name 1 of 3 chosen themes that define the Edwardian period
1 Elegance, 2 Luxury, 3 Moral Looseness
(for 30 and over)
His book, the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), "changed how people say and described rationality, the self, and personal development"
Sigmund Freud
“Sometimes we feel that we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools”
Salman Rushdie, The British Indian Writer and a Dream-England
Name 1 of 3 chosen themes prominent in Waiting for Godot
1 Modernism, 2 Nihilism, 3 Absurdity
Became first woman to hold the office of prime minister in 1979?
Margaret Thatcher
Name of the slave in Waiting for Godot
Lucky
“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Name 1 of 3 chosen themes/characteristics of the Georgian period
1 Industrialism 2 Radicalism 3 Artistic
1902 marks the end of which war that suggests the beginning of Britain's modern political history?
the Anglo-Boer War
Held the British throne from 1901-1910, "stamping extroverted and self-indulgent character upon" the period
King Edward VII
“Am I a noble scruff who hopes a proud academy might canonise his poems for their faith in canonical allusions?”
Daljit Nagra, A Black History of the English-Speaking Peoples