Money or the lack of it is often identify as being the source of most issues in society .
How do artists and writers voice this issue ? Does life spare the better-off ?
How do artists and writers voice this issue ? Does life spare the better-off ?
Social classes in pop culture ...
i Play the song you've been assigned . Analyse its message . Then turn it into a political speech ( try to re-use the literary devices of the song whenever possible and be convincing ! ) .
Song #1: drive.google.com/file/d/1ILvWFUE4RzjT8gR7Zp7M8C_ehcWJA9Zj/view?usp=sharing Song #2: drive.google.com/file/d/1WFgc5SAt98C09o4zfM6LH5QZ_jPo02EI/view?usp=sharing Song #3: drive.google.com/file/d/1n27t_DI6PMs_69ZiHOODitm49uY5X94w/view?usp=sharing |
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In groups of 4 watch the extract you've been assigned .
Describe it minutely and analyse the techniques used by the film-directors to pass a message to the audience .
Then present your extract to the class and explain to what extent this is a political statement .
#1: drive.google.com/file/d/1WPIyJjjutRf0_qBvDbBmNdmpDVGi4f1r/view?usp=sharing
#2: drive.google.com/file/d/1cACpanOk97J2m11YMSChlFXckSUj8_Wz/view?usp=sharing
#3: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xwfeq7fUcaaLb78o0iTwmpn2BGR1COLD/view?usp=sharing
#4:drive.google.com/file/d/1jLDy4vuAd8ABZ8DYMe-jQIHXXXuyl39o/view?usp=sharing
#5:drive.google.com/file/d/1xSRvsVFQjeOhR0uHroFyQntqQhmY_Rsr/view?usp=sharing
#6:drive.google.com/file/d/1VhfagGdTUZM7BYz8fzKkIZOY13v3y2il/view?usp=sharing
Describe it minutely and analyse the techniques used by the film-directors to pass a message to the audience .
Then present your extract to the class and explain to what extent this is a political statement .
#1: drive.google.com/file/d/1WPIyJjjutRf0_qBvDbBmNdmpDVGi4f1r/view?usp=sharing
#2: drive.google.com/file/d/1cACpanOk97J2m11YMSChlFXckSUj8_Wz/view?usp=sharing
#3: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xwfeq7fUcaaLb78o0iTwmpn2BGR1COLD/view?usp=sharing
#4:drive.google.com/file/d/1jLDy4vuAd8ABZ8DYMe-jQIHXXXuyl39o/view?usp=sharing
#5:drive.google.com/file/d/1xSRvsVFQjeOhR0uHroFyQntqQhmY_Rsr/view?usp=sharing
#6:drive.google.com/file/d/1VhfagGdTUZM7BYz8fzKkIZOY13v3y2il/view?usp=sharing
... and in literature . |
Harold Pinter's obituary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1805113.stm + https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/06/pinter-the-caretaker-christopher-haydon-patrice-naiambana |
Compare the two texts. Focus on :
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And the Upper Class...Evelyn Waugh's biography : https://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/evelyn-waugh/about/bio
+ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/15/bbc.radio trailer : drive.google.com/file/d/10-bGme41Yu9kNvp5KQaAJZGw4aQiApvH/view?usp=sharing Study the text and compare it to the series of painting by William Hogarth undeneath .
What do Waugh and Hogarth blame society for ? https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement |
A political and literary statement.
"Hemingway set down his convictions on the writer in politics in the fall of 1934: ‘A writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive,’ he said, ‘by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed…. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador, or have a million copies of his books printed by the government, or any of the other rewards the boys dream about…. But none of this will help him as a writer unless he finds something new to add to human knowledge while he is writing."
Ernest Hemingway
“Old Newsman Writes,” Esquire 2 (December 1934) 25-26 quoted by Carlos Baker, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist
(Princeton 1952, 1966)
How does this quote apply to Hemingway's novel ?
Study the extract closely to answer this question : Determine the point of view and focalization. How do they affect the narrative ? Where does the scene take place ? When ?Why are the place and time so crucial to the action ? What is the conversation about ? Who is Harry ? Is he portrayed as a hero ? Does he suscribe to the revolutionary ideas ? Explain. Show that for "the boy" the political cause amounts to religious faith. Compare Harry and " the boy" ( age, social origin, commitment, goals in life ...) What is particularly striking about Hemingway's style ? To what extent does the title of the book match the contents of the extract? Follow up work : write a sequel to the extract. |
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