Context Sac 2 Flashcards
What to include in the introduction
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy’ - Martin Luther King Jr
- See through the filter of our values
- instinct to challenge and change a landscape that tests our values
- confrontation occurs to overpower a landscape
Paragraph one quotes
- Ruth Benedict - ‘no man ever looked at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it defined by a set of customs and institutions, and ways of thinking’
- Ayn Raid - ‘every man builds his world in his own image’
- Jessica Capeshore - ‘Without dark there is no light, and without light there is no dark’
- APTI - ‘One can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds’
Paragraph One Passage To India Content
- Adela inner vs outer landscape
- Marabar caves - adela’s realisation of her marriage and her internalised need to challenge her conditioning
- The connection between the internal and external landscapes
- dark of caves = subconscious = uncertainty of Adela’s inner landscape
- light + dark analogy
- Adela Metaphor
Paragraph two quotes
Jeff Weiner - You must maintain a culture of transformation to stay true to your values
‘[Mrs Moore] rather likes mysteries, but [she] rather dislikes muddles’
Paragraph two Passage to India Content
- Adela is ‘addled’
- Adela’s reluctance to adapt to the landscape
- False accusation of Aziz divides her and the Indian Community - symbolic of divide between British and Indian Communities
- Adela is a conflicting force against the landscape
- Adela repels her surroundings and attempts to stop them influencing her inner self
- Stability of mrs moore
- Mrs Moore wants to experience the traditional landscape and refuses to accept the newly established hierarchies
Paragraph Three quotes
Denis Diderot - no man has ever received from nature the power to command his fellow human beings
-How is Britain justified in holding India?
Paragraph Three Passage to India Content
- British challenged the Indian landscape
- projection of perception of power onto landscape to attempt to transform it to reflect view of hierarchy
- The manipulation of the Indian land by the British
- Mr Turton’s car knocks Aziz and Mahmoud Ali off bike
- reiteration of power to attempt to maintain dominance
- CONTRAST - Aziz does not challenge the new society - he emancipates himself from it and vows never to see a British citizen again
- Aziz does not challenge the justice despite his unjust arrest
- leaves to a solitary, peaceful environment
- due to dominance of the British is forced to - no other option
- we have the ability to leave the landscape if it contradicts with our values - we do not always have to challenge it
Conclusion Quote
-Oscar Wilde - ‘Society exists only as a mental concept.In the real world, there are only individuals’
Conclusion content
- wrap up all points
- The landscape challenges our values individually