Module A Table
Pride and Prejudice
Both Texts
Letters to Alice
Connections/Comments about texts
Context (prompts, purpose, shapes, values)
Personal context and social, political and historical context
Austen is covert and implicit because she is female
“if you turned out to be barren, that was a terrible disaster, not just personally but socially”
“breaking through the thin walls between idea and experience” – reality poking into your life and preventing artists notions
A teacher
Cold war reference – “missiles dotted here and there about the earth, pointing instant and ever-ready nuclear death at you and yours”
“It‘s always wonderful to find out that there is a view of the world, not just the world: a pattern to experience not just experience – and whether you agree with the view offered… our neighbour; whom we never thought would laugh when we laugh, actually does” – commonalities, miscommunications, patterns to experience, common and shared values and experiences which would she take comfort from.
“I do not think the life or personality of writers to be particularly pertinent to their work” – L2A
“But I do think the times in which writers live are important” – L2A
“women were born poor, and stayed poor, and lived well only their husbands’ favour” – L2A
“to marry was a great prize. It was a woman’s aim.” – L2A
“Alice, by your standards, it was a horrible time to be alive” – L2A about P&P
“so you must understand that there were compensations to be found in virginity, in abstinence, …, and read Jane Austen bearing this in mind”
Purpose (based on context/values)
“art as a retreat from life and not a response to it. I am not condemning, merely observing” – L2A – both texts are both a retreat and a response
To influence the society in which they live in (purpose is derived and shaped their context)
Written as a private text for her family
“sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence” – reading is a
Both Texts
Letters to Alice
Connections/Comments about texts
Context (prompts, purpose, shapes, values)
Personal context and social, political and historical context
Austen is covert and implicit because she is female
“if you turned out to be barren, that was a terrible disaster, not just personally but socially”
“breaking through the thin walls between idea and experience” – reality poking into your life and preventing artists notions
A teacher
Cold war reference – “missiles dotted here and there about the earth, pointing instant and ever-ready nuclear death at you and yours”
“It‘s always wonderful to find out that there is a view of the world, not just the world: a pattern to experience not just experience – and whether you agree with the view offered… our neighbour; whom we never thought would laugh when we laugh, actually does” – commonalities, miscommunications, patterns to experience, common and shared values and experiences which would she take comfort from.
“I do not think the life or personality of writers to be particularly pertinent to their work” – L2A
“But I do think the times in which writers live are important” – L2A
“women were born poor, and stayed poor, and lived well only their husbands’ favour” – L2A
“to marry was a great prize. It was a woman’s aim.” – L2A
“Alice, by your standards, it was a horrible time to be alive” – L2A about P&P
“so you must understand that there were compensations to be found in virginity, in abstinence, …, and read Jane Austen bearing this in mind”
Purpose (based on context/values)
“art as a retreat from life and not a response to it. I am not condemning, merely observing” – L2A – both texts are both a retreat and a response
To influence the society in which they live in (purpose is derived and shaped their context)
Written as a private text for her family
“sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence” – reading is a