Module A – Comparative Study of Texts Elective 2: Texts in Time (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese) The two comparative texts‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese reflect changing values and perspectives of the modernistic 1920s and the Victorian Era of the mid 19th Century. Through the change in context and literary form‚ The Great Gatsby reshapes our understanding
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Module A: Text & Contexts Essay Texts are although a form of composer’s ideas and imaginations‚ they also reflect contexts and discuss different issues in the society of the time in which they were composed. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Ridley Scott’s noir film Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut are good examples of texts that reflect on contexts and the composer’s ideas and imaginations. Mary Shelley’s novel‚ Frankenstein‚ is a gothic fiction that represents the context of the
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seventeenth-century Boston. On the surface‚ this novel’s tale is the opposite of proto-feminist‚ a term applied to works that show the emergence of modern feminist concepts. Via the actions and characteristics main characters‚ or perhaps heroines of the novel‚ Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl‚ Hawthorne is able to contrast them with society’s expectations‚ showing them to be proto-feminist characters within a proto-feminist novel. In Puritan society‚ gender roles are distinct‚
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The texts Life of Pi written by Yann Martell‚ On the Sidewalk Bleeding by Evan Hunter‚ War Horse directed by Steven Spielberg and World’s Fastest Indian directed by Roger Donaldson are all related to the theme belonging. The definition of belonging is the feeling of being secure in your s relationships and surroundings. This can be achieved by communicating with others or by finding a special connection and friendship. A similarity between On the Sidewalk Bleeding and War Horse related to
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rhetoric that embodied much of the organization. Gender roles would be judged within the BPP as the ideologies of its members clashed. Furthermore‚ black women were not only misplaced within black organizations. Their interests were neglected amongst feminist organizations mostly led by middleclass white women. These neglected interests were not small by any means where
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The feminist movement was a mostly unorganised uprising against an injustice that was perceived to be the norm. Women had been treated as second rung citizens for long and finally found a means to be heard and accounted for through this movement. What started as a perspective‚ characterised by the colorful activists who leant their personalities and ideas to the movement‚ soon catapulted‚ and has a cult following even in this modern era. A feminist is a person who believes that people should have
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s Feminist Piece Charlotte Perkins Gilman orchestrates an all-out feminist assault on societal male dominance in her work‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She cleverly conceals her points in an attention-grabbing story about a wife seemingly held prisoner by her mental deterioration. However‚ the real captors turn out to be societal norms where men are in charge and other women unwittingly supporting the oppressors. Set in the late 19th century‚ the story reflects the current
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Introduction………………………………………………………………..……. Chapter 1.Text and text type: definitions and classifications……………………. Text types……………………………………………………………... 1.2 Beaugrande and Dressler’s typology………………………………..… 1.3 Longacre’s classification…………………………………………..….. 1.4 Werlich’s textual typology……………………………………….….... 1.5 Biber’s text type………………………………………………………. Chapter 2.Text Forms………………………………………………………….... 2.1 The descriptive text form……………………………………………....
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Don’t text and drive Victoria Guerriero Image Analysis “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph‚ that ’s enough time to cover the length of a football field.” (2009‚ VTTI). While texting and driving has always been an issue since people were able to text on phones‚ it has not gained much media attention until recently. People may have sent an occasional text while driving ten years ago‚ but because the keyboard was
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The module comparative study of texts should remain in the Board of Studies syllabus as it can provide a powerful insight into the human condition and social values of an era. The play “Away” by Michael Gow and poems published in “Sometimes Gladness” written by Bruce Dawe are both texts which reflect similar conditions that the typical person living in suburban Australia between the 1950’s and 1960’s experienced. There were many significant events that took place during these two decades such as
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