How does a GCSE English Literature student come to understand a classic novel such as Frankenstein‚ and what teaching strategies for framing and critically analysing the text can be truly useful to the student? Large scale educational reform in the last decade or so has become a common and accepted part of life. However‚ too many failures have been highlighted and “amply demonstrated” by low performance outcomes (Moss‚ 2009). Literature as a subject in the classroom has long been a top priority
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‘Joseph Andrews’‚ Fielding claims that human vices in his novel are ‘never set forth as the objects of ridicule but detestation’. To what extent are ‘Joseph Andrews’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’ concerned with issues of morality? Despite the fact that ‘Joseph Andrews’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’ approach their concern with issues of morality differently‚ they both interrogate the subject to the extent whereby‚ throughout the majority of both novels‚ they reveal and question existing ideals of society’s principles:
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once proclaimed‚ "we do not read novels for improvement or instruction‚" however there are many individuals who would disagree with Holmes’ inference. There is a great deal of literature that offers much more than amusement for its audience. In fact‚ insight and wisdom is often gained from reading‚ which can be applied to most all of our lives in some way. The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel as well as Keeping Faith by Frank and John Schaeffer significantly opposes Holmes conception
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This part of the research project is an opportunity to focus your thinking about your topic and thesis. Using the techniques we’ve discussed in class (such as brainstorming and freewriting)‚ develop a draft research question and thesis that will help guide your research in the forthcoming stage of the project. You may wish to do that brainstorming around textual elements we have discussed in class–setting‚ plot‚ character‚ diction etc.– or look at how critical contexts such as postcolonial theory
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BROTHER IN THE LAND Character Sketch of Rhodes In the play script “Brother in the Land” by Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline‚ Rhodes is portrayed as a sadistic P.E. teacher who is an active member of the MASADA and participates voluntarily in tasks which are set up‚ in order to overthrow the Civil Defense Team. Unfortunately at the end he turns out to be a selfish person who deceives the MASADA. Rhodes proves to be a good strategist as he prepares the students and tells them about
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forgive’ pages 3-6 How does McEwan establish the genre of tragedy in this extract? In relation to the rest of the novel‚ how typical are the tragic features used here? When thinking of a tragic novel or play‚ you may think of the great Greek tragedies. You may think of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. You may even think of a more modern play such as Death of a Salesman or Hardy’s Novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. All of these end‚ as has become the custom for tragedy‚ with the death of their tragic
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Adrian Barlow writes of Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting: “At the time of its publication‚ to write a novel about intense relationships between men in the First World War was considered an ambitious risk for a woman writer.” Compare and contrast the ways in which your three writers present relationships between men. ’One of the paradoxes of the War - one of the many - was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between officers and men that was... domestic. Caring. As Layard
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In many ways Walton’s depiction of Victor Frankenstein is made accurate through the first five chapters; Frankenstein judges Elizabeth immediately on her beauty and likens it to that of an angel who has been ‘heaven-sent’. Then‚ in the next chapter he describes her soul as ‘saintly’‚ indicating that she is as good as she is beautiful. The depiction of Frankenstein as a ‘wanderer’ is primarily true as he spent the beginning of his life travelling with his parents until they gave up their ‘wandering
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Chapter 4 (85-94) – “The fire was dead…” to the end. What is the Importance of this section in the plot of the novel? How does this passage help our understanding of the main characters? How does it help us to understand what Golding is trying to say in the novel as a whole? The major event of these few pages is the first sentence. “The fire was dead.” This is clear and simple‚ like Ralphs anger at the confirmation of his fears at the fact it has gone out; this is exaggerated further by the
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September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962)‚ also known as Will Faulkner‚ was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford‚ Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media‚ including novels‚ short stories‚ a play‚ poetry‚ essays and screenplays. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories‚ many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County‚ a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County‚ where he spent most of his life‚ and Holly Springs/Marshall
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