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Eunice Babalola
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Questions
Analysis
PERSONAL RESPONSE
Women
Reflect on the way in which at least one literary test
has resonated deeply with your because of your own
cultural assumptions, social positions and/or gender
Intro Key points
 Reflect – what are you reflecting?
o Reflecting on the dominant ideologies of
the time as shakepear adheres to a lot of
the ideologies during those times
 What are your social positions, gender and cultural
assumptions? – state in introduction
o Gender: female
 Ophelia’s and gertrudes portrayel
has resonated with me as it has
made me angry to know that
women in that society were
treated in that way.
o Cultural assumptions: customs, beliefs,
values and activities of a particular group in
a particular time
 My beliefs about religion is vastly
different
o Stoicism
 Very prominent in modern day
society
 How does the text resonate with you? (Can be
negative resulting in negative emotions)
o Resonates with me on different levels. As it
adheres to some of the values present
within modern day society (stoicism) but it
also challenges and provides a window to
perceive the values present in society
Reflect upon the ways your connection to a text has
been influenced by aspects of your own identity
Intro Key points
 What are your connections? (Personal and
meaningful)
o I connect to the text personally, through
the dominant ideologies of the time, that
Shakespeare represents as my own identity
has influenced my understanding and
reading of the text
 Communicate on the fluidity of identity
o Texts as fluid as they have interchangeable
meaningins based on the readers idneitty
wjich is made up of their context, culturall
assumptions and gender
 Make clear link between my identity and chosen
text (draw on aspects of cultural heritage, ethnicity
or race , gender, place in society) (make sure to
make link throughout the essay)
Hamlet has greatly resonated / connected with me due
to my personal identity as a female within
contemporary society. Shakespeare’s representation of
women within the play, shows an accurate
representation of how women within Elizabethan
society were perceived as naïve and timid and has a
loss of agency due to expectations of following their
fathers orders. This has provoked sympathy and anger
within me, seeing how women were treated and
perceived during Elizabethan era, due to my gender and
individual belief which has been shaped by our
progressive contemporary society. Through the
characterisation of Ophelia, Shakespeare portrays the
lack of female agency within Elizabethan society.
Throughout Ophelia’s appearance within the play, there
is always a part where she is given instructions and no
consideration of her own feelings, for example. In act
one scene 3, ophelia is instructed by both hamlet ‘s
advances with the reasoning of his position as a prince
and the assumptions that he is sjsut playing with her
feelings (examples) of
Religion
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My identity (gender) has a women ahs
allowed me to sympathise with the women
in the elizabthenn society
My identity (cultural assumption) has
allowed me to better connect with the text
as a person with christian values, I am able
to
Mu identity (cultural assumption) has
allowed me to relate to text as I am able to
relate to the stoic value hamlet rpesents as
it is common in modern society were
people continue to suffer and e.t.c.
Literary texts communicate ideological perspectives,
but our responses are mediated by our own social,
cultural and/or historical space. Consider this
statement with reference to at least one text
Intro Key points
 Dominant perspective of text is explained, followed
by an explanation of the medieval position due to
context
o Dominaint perspective: gender women
 In Elizabethan times, women
belonged to their fathers (or their
brothers if their fathers died) and
then to their husbands. Women
could not own property (reason
why queen Elizabeth never
married)
o Dominant perspective: religion
 Religion was seen as such a nig
thing, and was based only on
heaven and earth, afterlife =, but
modern day society has strayed
from that path, developing the
religion even more.
o Dominant perspective: stoicism
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 What are your “ideological perspectives’? (Be
considered based on position on fundamental social
belief promoted text
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 Identify more than one ‘ideological perspective
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 Consider cultural, contextual and historical factors
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Nation’s
Drawing on at least one text, explore how literature
can be considered important in acknowledging a
nation’s past and/or hopes for the future
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Context of production
Knowledge of the past or present of the
relevant nations
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Demonstrate how the text serves to highlight
issues, events or ideolgies that were or are
relevant
Articulate how the text encourages readers to
understand and acknowledge the past, or to
see potential changes and improvement in the
future
Discuss the way the text can acts as a historical
document, allowing the readers to view the
past as it was seen by its contemporaries. By
reading these texts today, we are given the
opportunity to reflect on mistakes we wish not
to repeat or to understand how we have
arrived at our current ways of thinking.
Reflect on the way that literature which holds
up a mirror to a nations past can be
uncomfortable to view, particularly when we
can see there has been a. Lack of progress to
change ways of thinking or behaving
Farewell to arms
- Representation of war (historical document)
Discuss the way in which literature is a cultural
expression of ideas anchored firmly in social and
historical context
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Demonstrate strong understanding of culture
and what it contributes to literary texts
Support the notion of contextual influence on a
text
Explore the notion of change and how
contemporary readings can alter meaning and
reader response. (Modern context could be
referenced to illustrate a difference in
understadnign from that of the original
audience )
Social invites multiple readings (Marxist and
gendered). Discussion of both social and
historical context and their interplay is valued
in addressing question
Shakespear = comment on how these text often
present issues in ways that are less palatable
now but which are reflective of the ways of
thinking and behaviour during that time.
Modern text are responsible to current issues
and events discussing the ways that these ideas
are presented to a literary audience for their
evaluation and reflection
Explore a particular genres and how it
embodies specific conventions which embodies
a particular ideology, time or place
Eliots poetry employs a modernist style of
poetic expression that completely disrupted
traditional form, use of imagery and subject
matter, in order to comment on social issues
and ideologies of his time
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Hamlet
o Religion
 Man is inherently flawed,
painting of men is known as
cartanism – which led to
people being afraid of
expressing themselves and
doing art which led to art being
lagging behind, as it new as
seen as sacrilegious to paint
anything other than to do with
Christianity
o Stoiticism
o Renaissance humanism
o Justice
T.s. Eliot
o Preludes – employ
o Uses modernist style of poetic
expression to completely disrupt
traditional form
o Comments on social issues and
ideologies of his time