How has Atwood created a convincing ‘world’ in The Handmaid’s Tale? (1000 words) Develop a clear thesis in response to the question: sum up the ‘world’ of Gilead. Base your essay on what you have read so far, drawing clearly from the detail of the text. Select ‘moments’ from Offred’s narrative which outline the power […]
HL Language Literature
The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 5 Close Analysis
How does Atwood present the nature and power of the Gileadean regime? The juxtapositioning of the past and the present in Offred’s interior narrative The language of the regime The ways in which the regime exerts control The significance of the introduction of the motif of the double In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood presents the […]
Saint Hoax Consolidation
Saint Hoax is a pseudonymous artist that best describes his work as ‘POPlitical’—an amalgamation of pop art with a political message. His activist art pieces use satirical and humorous self-explanatory visuals to create a form of political and social currency. In his campaign ‘Making America Misogynistic Again’, Saint Hoax provides political commentary on Donald Trump’s […]
Guerrilla Girls Consolidation
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists that aim to expose bias, discrimination, elitism and imbalance in the art world. By using startling statistics, humour and outrageous visuals, the Guerilla Girls aim to undermine the mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, subtext, overlooked and unfair. Their activism targets the ‘cookie-cutter’ definitions of […]
IO Outline Reflection
What two things will you foreground for your next IO practice? 1. To provide wider contextualisation within the body of works Although I managed to touch upon this to some extent, I need to situate the poem or advert within their body of works as a whole right from the very beginning. This includes specifying […]
Delilah – Carol Ann Duffy
The polyvocal poem Delilah by Carol Ann Duffy is a form of intertextuality that reconstructs the traditional Biblical story of Samson and Delilah. Samson is presented to constitute alpha male tropes whilst Delilah, previously portrayed to be a temptress that led to the ultimate downfall of Samson, is presented anew by Duffy as an empowered […]
“The Look” – P&G Advert Analysis
In what ways is the advert “The Look” ‘a story about bias’ in contemporary American society? (300 words with textual examples) In response to criticisms revolving around the absence of African American men as father figures in their previous advert “The Talk”, P&G released “The Look” as a means to address those concerns whilst concurrently […]
The Talk – P&G Advert Analysis + Notes
In an advert released by Procter & Gamble titled “The Talk”, the theme of bias is illustrated through the depiction of pre-civil rights movement and post-civil rights movement and what has changed in terms of both unconscious and conscious bias. Audiences are made to understand that bias manifests itself in many different forms but […]
Individual Oral Reflection (P&G Advert Analysis)
Timing I felt that 10 minutes was much shorter than I imagined. In the beginning, I tried to begin slowly, thinking that perhaps I didn’t have enough to speak about and at the same time, trying to be conscious of my pace. However, when I took note of the time, I only had 5-6 mins […]