Frankenstein
This influential 18th-century writer and philosopher argued that women deserved the same opportunities for education and intellectual development as men.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This replicant disguises herself to gain access to J. F. Sebastian and his apartment, where she hides from the police.
Who is Pris Stratton?
This phrase refers to a moment of intense happiness or pleasure experienced by a character in one of Browning’s poems.
What is her “spot of joy”?
These are words that help writers move beyond identifying what a text does to make a judgement about its significance, effectiveness or meaning.
What are verbs of critical evaluation?
This artistic and literary movement emphasised emotion, imagination, individual experience and the power of the natural world, often reacting against the growing influence of reason and industrialisation.
What is Romanticism?
During the Cold War, the United States was deeply concerned about the spread of a competing political ideology. This anxiety was reflected in the surveillance, suspicion and social paranoia that influenced the dystopian world depicted in Blade Runner.
What was the fear of communism?
This occurs when the audience understands something about a situation or character that the speaker does not fully recognise.
What is dramatic irony?
This is a paragraph structure that helps writers integrate textual evidence into an analytical argument.
What is IQTVE?
This remote, frozen region surrounding the North Pole is where Robert Walton begins his expedition and where Victor’s story eventually comes to an end.
What is the Arctic?
One of the most debated questions surrounding Blade Runner. Fans and critics continue to examine the film’s clues, symbolism and ambiguity to determine...
Is Deckard a replicant?
This theory suggests that Browning’s poems can be understood through two layers of identity: the poet creates a speaker who presents one version of themselves, while the reader can detect another identity beneath the speaker’s words. Which Renaissance intellectual movement, associated with thinkers such as Erasmus, sought to reconcile classical learning and human reason with Christian morality and used education as a means of encouraging ethical reform?
What is the theory of the double mask?
This is a statement that expresses the central idea or argument a paragraph will explore, rather than simply identifying a technique or event from the text.
What is a concept statement?
This phrase describes attempting to take control over the creation or destruction of life in a way traditionally associated with a divine power. Victor’s scientific experiment can be interpreted through this idea.
What is “Playing God”?
This question sits at the centre of both Frankenstein and Blade Runner, as audiences are invited to reconsider the boundaries between creator and creation, human and non-human.
What makes us human?
This deep-blue semi-precious stone appears in one of Browning’s poems.
What is lapis lazuli?
This is the central argument of an essay that establishes the writer’s overall position in response to the question.
What is a thesis?
This young woman's character arc highlights the injustice and prejudice surrounding the Creature's actions.
Who is Justine Moritz?
This cultural and artistic movement questions ideas of absolute truth, fixed identity and clear distinctions between reality and illusion. It often mixes different styles, blurs boundaries and asks audiences to question what they think they know.
What is Postmodernism?
The social and political system that existed in France before the French Revolution.
What was the Ancien Régime?
This is the quality that makes the ideas in a piece of writing connect logically and flow smoothly from one point to the next. This unsettling final phrase of Rhapsody on a Windy Night encapsulates the speaker’s fragmented psychological experience as the night and his memories draw to a close.
What is cohesion?