Initial IO Outline (Planning)

Global Issue: How an imbalance in power can affect one’s identity

Combo 1:

Lit text: Thetis (Carol Ann Duffy)

• The poet, a woman, is victimising herself as she’s aware of the imbalance in power between gender
• Every stanza, the woman ‘turns’ herself into a new animal, a more powerful one each time, with a ‘predator’ present each time regardless of how powerful she becomes – the predator symbolising a man, or rather the power men seems to have over women
• As she transforms into more powerful animals, she becomes more in control in terms of not actually getting shot or hurt by the predators
• She turns into the wind, gas, into intangible items, she has more freedom and loosens from the men’s control
• initial animals represents imbalance, and how she felt small and incapable – imbalance in power affecting identity

Non-Lit Text: Saint Hoax – Schlitz beer advertisement

• man in the center of the ad, woman at the back serving him
• “not someone who is always griping and bitching
• emphasizes on misogynistic idea, stereotypes between genders in terms of capabilities and roles

Main Ideas:

• Both texts emphasizes on imbalance in power specifically between males and females – emphasis misogynistic ideas
• Duffy’s poem shows a progression in her self worth, while advert shows the role women are expected to have in society (conforming to social norms vs. disobeying)

Combo 2:

Lit text: A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan Song)

• It seems like he is talking to the higher class of society
• “you never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns”
• protesting the arrogance which is common within the people of the higher classes
• should be a change in how people interact with each other as imbalance affects individuals attitudes to society and morals

Non-Lit Text: Billie Eilish Bury A Friend Music Video Scene

• Hands acting as external environment, the power which people/society’s opinion has on an individual 
• Needles stabbed into her (forceful, threatening, more fear)
• Expectations = identity affected

Main Ideas:

• Idea of social class power in dylan’s song, while billie focus more on society’s power over her as a celebrity
• both induces fear to appeal to audience’s emotions
• Impact of these external power on the individual (for dylan, the middle income class and then billie eilish herself)