Common Module
List three text types which may be found in this section.
Speech
Narrative extract
Poem
Transcript
Journal Entry
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What paper and section would you expect to find the questions related to ‘The Merchant of Venice'?
Paper 1 Section 2
List the FULL TITLES of the 5 poems we studied.
Preludes
Journey of the Magi
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
The Hollow Men
Identify the three ways you can be asked to respond in this section.
Imaginative
Discursive
Persuasive
What is the title of this module and the elective we studied?
Module A: Textual Conversations
How does this text represent the importance of discovery to the human experience?
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Metaphor “lake”
Personification
Simile – ‘like a terrible fish’
Who says this?
"'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'"
Solanio (he's quoting Shylock) :)
Which poem is this quote from? List one technique that is present.
“Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium”
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Techniques:
Simile
Symbolism
Fill in the gap.
Students reflect on the complex and ___________ processes of writing.
Recursive
Who is the author of the novel and the director of the film; What year were they created?
Virginia Woolf (1925)
Stephen Daldry (2002)
Which aspects of human behaviour do texts give insight into?
Anomalies
Paradoxes
Inconsistencies
What is the significance of the relationship between Antonio, Shylock and Portia?
Antonio and Shylock are the manifestations of mercy and justice, which are reconciled by Portia (Balthazar)
Which poem is this statement true of?
The poem cycles through transitional times of day: evening and morning rush hours (sections I and II), night time before dawn (III), and back to evening rush hour. The passage of time appears futile and without goal, an idea that the closing lines also imply: “The worlds revolve like ancient women/ Gathering fuel in vacant lots”. Bergson’s influence clearly underlies this negative representation of time, measured out and reduced to a meaningless, mechanical repetition.
Preludes
Identify one of the purposes for writing identified in the prescription.
express insights,
evoke emotion,
describe the wonder of the natural world,
shape a perspective or to share an aesthetic vision.
Why does Clarissa Dalloway choose to buy the flowers herself?
Challenging class and gender roles of the time
Describe one visual element which indicates a human experience in this image.
(Go to this link for the image: https://tinyurl.com/JEOEAD)
Track leading into the distance – discoveries can be unforeseen
Railway track – discoveries can be planned
Children together – the journey towards discovery can develop relationships
Costumes – discoveries can come about as a result imagination and / or a desire for adventure
What is Shylock’s hamartia?
Desire for revenge
Which poem is this true of?
Which poem is:
It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. The poem dramatises the state of mind of the persona, a tragicomic figure of uncertain age.
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
What is the significance of Harwood’s use of setting in Father and Child?
Day break/ Rural = innocence.
Nightfall/ Urban = Experience
What contextual concern of Woolf’s time would influence her to write about a man struggling with mental illness?
WWI
The rise of psychoanalysis.
Woolf’s own battles with mental health
Discuss this text in relation to texts and the human experience (assumption and 3 Technique/quote)
When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear
When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.
The human experience can be challenging and enlightening, requiring us to overcome obstacles
Refrain/ repetition “When we come to it”
High modality
Metaphor - “We are the miraculous”
How does the concept of eudaimonia relate to "The Merchant of Venice"?
Human flourishing
Influence of Renaissance Humanism
Made manifest in Portia
Read the following extract from a sample paragraph about Prufrock. Identify what perspective the composer is influenced by:
The imperative of the opening line “Let us go then, you and I” not only alludes to Bergson’s notion of the double-self, one being attuned to reality while the other is attuned to deep truths, but is in fact immobilized by the simile “like a patient etherized upon a table” clearly establishing the antithetical framework of action versus inaction in the poem ultimately resulting in a paralysis which is reflected in the pathetic fallacy of the “evening… spread out against the sky”. Indeed, when viewed from a ________________it can be understood that the representation of the flaneur’s journey is in actual fact a stroll through the depths of the subconscious of Prufrock through which Eliot’s modernist introspection and embrace of the fragmented nature of the human soul, immerses us in this uncertainty of self through placing us in the metaphorical “half-deserted streets” and “muttering retreats” of the psyche that we follow “like a tedious argument”.
Psychoanalytic Perspective
Discuss the significance of one allusion to a significant figure in Atwood’s, Spotty Handed Villainesses?
(Teacher discretion for this answer). :)
List 3 contextual concerns which influenced the content and style of the film, 'The Hours'.
WWII and aftermath
o Afghanistan and the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, 2001 Terrorist attack on USA – 9/11
Twin Towers New York, Invasion of Afghanistan, pursuit of ‘Weapons of mass destruction
o rapid growth in use of TV, mobile phones, computer technology – world wide web and internet
• Growth of capitalism and its influence
o multinational corporations and globalisation
o advertising, marketing and consumerism
o consumption of popular culture items
• Rising influence of media and powerful media organisations
• Growth in feminism
• Greater focus on the individual and individual freedom
liberal attitudes to sexuality
growing acceptance of homosexuality, Gay mardigras and the idea of Gay marriage
Further decline in religion - growing secularism