How does Euripides use dramatic irony for effect in this scene? Euripides uses dramatic irony by having Medea start to completely agree with Jason. She starts to regret and take back all her statements from before about Jason, Creon, and the new bride. Jason being as condescending he just thinks that Medea has finally realised […]
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First Episode- Second Stasimon
Examine Medea’s behaviour with Creon: what strategies does she use to manipulate him? Initially, it seems like she is struggling and flustered under the pressure when Creon comes to confront her. However, she very quickly realises that Creon is a family man and that to him the daughter is the most important thing in the […]
Medea Prologue and Parados
–What is the significance of the information the Nurse gives the audience? The Nurse is the first introduction to the play and the understanding of Medea as a character and her situation. We get to learn what happened to her and how she’s feeling from an outside perspective. Her insight as a slave helps people […]
Swimming with Hougang Centre Check-in LO3,6
After spending nearly 2 seasons with the buddies from Hougang Centre it has been a great experience. We have been planning many sessions and started to notice more and more about each buddy. Like how we should talk and react to some of them. Some buddies just want to chill in the corner of the […]
Intersectionality In The Handmaids Tale
Intersectionality is a concept and framework where different factors of discrimination come together like race, gender, age, disability, religion etc. This problem is firstly very evident in society that we live in, for example, black women is a very simple one. Where there is discrimination due to race in black people and also discrimination due […]
Is Atwood’s novel ultimately a feminist work of literature, or does it offer a critique of feminism?
At first glance, I feel that The Handmaids Tale is portrayed to be more of a feminist work of literature, as it makes very evident the relationship between the commanders and the Handmaids. To be superordinate to subordinate. However, in society especially in the past and during Atwood’s time where she was an advocate for […]
Symbolic Power Of Naming in the Handmaid’s Tale
The power of names is a big theme in The Handmaid’s Tale. Firstly, the names of the handmaid where they have off- then the commanders name. So there is offred. Initially, this highlights how handmaids and really women in Gilead mostly object that men and Gilead use to progress their own ideals for society. The […]
What is the most effective way that Atwood creates a repressive atmosphere in these chapters?
Atwood uses a variety of themes and techniques to create a repressive atmosphere in Gilead. This is mainly done through Imagery, gender roles, religion, flashbacks and the rebellious thoughts and feelings shown by Offred. Firstly, I will discuss the use of flashbacks to show Offred’s past. In chapter 5 there is a part where Offred […]
Reflection on English IO
Leading up the IO I actually changed my non-lit text from Naruto to yesimhotinthis because I realised that Naruto could work but yesimhotinthis is a better fit. After the switch, I wanted to adjust my refined global issue a little bit to talk more about generalisations and stereotypes. But I couldn’t really think of any […]