Jan Exam English

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1) To what extent do authors use the portrayal of trapped characters to criticize society

- Jane Eyre - red room entrapment - critcize society because of their class struggle or

social platforms

and how the poor are treated more horribly than the rich (enslavement)- being trapped in society - governess - no respect

trapped on marriage due to class barriers..only after gaining wealth she can marryrochester

trapped as governess-a position with knowledge of upper class but paid as a servent,

sometimes society is criticizes owners because they treat people who have more

knowledge than them

Hamlet - Hamlet is trapped in inability to make decision, shows the political unrest of Denmarkto a certain extent- Hamlets entrapment between antic disposition and real life, he has to put an act to figure outwhat exactly is happening in Denmark- Love vs Fathers revenge - Hamlet is trapped between Ophelia and hatred for women, showsthe women in Denmarks unmoral act, marrying someone without being afraid of incest aftertheir husband have died, shows unloyal wives in Demarks society

Solitude-Colonel is trapped between the wars, shows the corruption of the government, no differencebetween communists and liberals-Jose arcadio buendia is trapped between technology annd family..cricticizes technology for thedownfall of the town (railroad lead to the banana massacre)...ya but this guy if the one first soflying carpets, ice, alchemy so less time spent with ursula and spends all money of his family- same guy as above is tied to that tree, limits his personal character development-meme whose lover is killed by fernanda is imprisoned in convent by fernanda...critizesfernandas policies/society because in order to keep her respect/dignity she sacrifices shechilds freedom

2) Literature often concerns itself with the concept of change. Explore the varying ways change

in impacted

Lear

- change occurs when Lear divides up kingdom (civil war and fight inbetween families), change

of power

- change as the youth betray and overtake the old...shows the hunger for power, impacts the

whole kingdom as it is drawn into a state of war,confusion,chaos and turmoil...shows that

change can lead to the downfall of not only the family but also the kingdom.

- change in Lear (he becocmes more humble as the play progresses after he endures the storm

rather than when he was at the beggining when he was arrogant)

- change in the realization of truth (blindness to the truth)

- main character Lear and Gloucester realize who their really loyal and loving children

are towards the end of the novel rather than at the beggining when they were believing their

unloyal ones and got fooled and betrayed)

Hamlet

- change of the king (stable to more corrupt) nation as a deceased body

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Jane

- change occurs when Jane moves from Gateshead and Lowwood (her worst moments in her

life) to Thornfield and Moore HOuse

- she is acutally loved and finally has a HOME

- from the beginning of her life to the end of the novel, jane life is moving in a linear fashion and

she is experiencing change throughout (she is married and now has family where as opposed tobeggining where she was a orphan)

Solitude

-change when gypsies arrive - improvement in technologies

-change with banana plantation/railroad-loss of innocence of macondo

before: people used to be surprised with technology(ice/flying carpet) Now: people have no

emotions or reactions towards it, are are more normal with it, it has become norm to society

-change the war brings to the city of macondo and buedia family

3) Compare the ways in which writers have explored the impact of religion on human behavior

Solitude

-Whole of macondo just believes in God

but after the introduction of the church..this view changes now ppl have to worship only in

church

-Fernanda has different religious beliefs and she tries to enforce them on the buendias

- people lost faith..remeber spiritual decline..sex with donkeys..too much parties and drinking so

shows religion is important for the sustainability of society

-the five year rain symbol to cleanse the evil similar to the floods of noah bible

-history of macondo similar to the bible itself ..

Jane eyre

-Brocklehurst..Evangelical, hypocritical (uses money that is supposed to fund Lowood to feed

and luxurize him family), very harsh and strict towards the children at the gateshead, very

hateful and oppressive

-Helen burns...passive nature, her principle: to love enemies and to not defy/revolt

-St.john... beliefs that god is his life, and devoting himself to god is a proper use of his life,

therefore he is missionary and very structured and principaled character (god is everything to

him)

-jane eyre...moral, complete faith in god, (prays when she is in need) but does not accept any

one of the other 3 characters belief in religion...this keeps her moving in whenever she

encounters any problem such as marriage which rochester (she rejecys because she is morally

bound against religion and also society)...believes in supernatural call from rochester

Hamlet

-characters want to go to heaven not hell

- therefore they admit their mistakes before they die (Leartes apoligies with hamlet)


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- Hamlet doesnt kill when Claudius is praying shows how he wants his soul to go to hell from

hamlets point of view and from Claudiuss point of view, shows his remores and his afraid of

death, so he seeks religion

-Laertes does not care abt his soul...ready to kill hamlet with deciet and even in a church

4) Defiance becomes our duty in the face of injustice. How have writers persuaded readers toaccept or challenge this view

Lear

- Edgar and cordelia challenge the enemies who are doing injustce

Edgar - fighting for Gloucester and he is cruelly got his eyes plucked out

Cordelia - fights for the injustice done to her father, fights against her other two sisters

Hamlet

- injustice done to his father (killed secretly), mother (to some extent lured by claudius), the

kingdom and most importantly himself because he was next to take the throne and become king

-he defies claudius explanation of the death being (was does he say abt how king hamlet dies -

snake bit in garden)...he does not trust/rely anyone

-he denies committing suicide resists his temptation to die and leave his problems...to be or not

to be...because he has to take revenge for his fathers injustice

Eyre

- Helen Burns accepts injustice done to her

- love her enemy policy

-Jane eyre ready to revolt whenever she sees injustice

-in thornfield against her cruel aunt...she defies her aunt and argues so much that at onepoint even her aunt thinks she is defeated...shows how even a small child can revolt when there

is injustice.i

Solitude

- colonel defies communists for their ideologies, corruption, power and therefore joins forces

with liberals to bring the uprising....injustice to people of macondo

-similarly jose arcadio segundo leads an uprising with the workers in the banana plantation

because u know why

5)How and to what extent have seasons and weather been used

King Lear- storm - shows unrest in country and shows lear mood

Jane Eyre - shows her mood (bright weather when she is happy and Storm when she is in

desperate and horrible condition - for example the red room)

-chestnut tree split ...love splits


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6) Symbols and motifs are important elements of literature. Examine how they have been used

and how successful they are.

Jane Eyre

- Seasons, weather, storms

- Splintered Chestnut Tree- Bertha Mason

- Fire and Ice

- Gross Porridge

King Lear

- Storm

- Feather

- Lear's Crown

- Blindness and Madness

Hamlet

- Yorick's skull

- ghost

- unweeded garden

- hamlet's costume change

- flowers

- Hearing and ears

- Madness

One hundred years of solitude

- golden fish- encyclopedia

- term "yellow"

- railroad

7) Relationship between character and setting

- Refer to #6

8)how do perspectives of women and men differ, how does it make the narrative more

interesting

Lear

Hamlet

Solitude

Jane


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9) In literature the concept of home is often used to locate the thoughts, memories and dreamsof humankind. In the light of this quotation, explore the ways in which home is used

Lear - home refers to his kingdom and where he has shelter

Jane

- home refers to a place where Jane is loved and is protected and has shelter- multiples places where she lived but all not considered as home cause she was not loved in allthe places

Solitude - a place where characters take refuge.

-Buendia home captures all the memories

- Macondo- Colonel Aureliano Segundo wanting to find home and way too much solitude there- the Buendia house how it has all these memories and ghosts

King Lear and 100 Years:

- Madness (wisdom in madness). Jose Arcadio Buendia goes insane, King Lear does, the Fool

shows wisdom in his madness, Edgar pretends to be mad

- Storms representing pathetic fallacy (what the characters are feeling is represented by a

storm). So the Deluge in 100 years that lasts 4 years, and the storm expereinced by Lear as hes

going mad with pain of losing his kingdom.

- Tragic Ending of Goodness. So in King Lear, Cordelia dies at the end when she was a good

person thrhoguht and also right near the end Edmund when killed by Edgar repents and says

"But they loved Edmund!" indicating hes sad for what he did. In 100 years, Remedios dies while

being a good person and innocent.

Hamlet and 100 Years:- Ghost of Conscience (Hamlet's Father, Prudencio Aluigar who was killed by Jose Arcadio

comes to him and torments him as a ghost)

- Meloncholy, philosophical characters. (All the Aurelianos throughout the book are liek this with

the exception of Jose Arcadio Segundo who is also like that, except thats cuz he was switched

at birth with Aureliano Segundo so that should've been his real name. Hamlet himself is like this,

having studied at the University of Wittenburg and being really speculative and philosophical,

and sad.)

Incest (Aureliano Jose, son of Colonel Aureliano, wants to fuck his aunt, Amaranta. Arcadio

wants to fuck his mom, Pilar Ternera. Ursula is really scared about incest and is herself married

to her first cousin so all the problems in her descendents she blames on that. Aureliano (II),

illegitimate son of Meme (Renata Remedios) who is daughter of Aureliano Segundo, fucks his

aunt Amaranta Ursula and they have a baby with a pig's tail just like Ursula didn't want.

In Hamlet incest is between:


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Gertrude and Claudius (they were brother,sister-in-law)

Hamlet and Gertrude (in that scene where he says frailty thy name is woman and is angry at his

moms sexual affairs with Claudius)

Laertes and Ophelia (sometimes Laertes makes sexual innuendo to Ophelia, and when she

dies he puts his hands in her hands in the coffin indicating he loved her or something)

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