contexty stuff

Question 1

isolationism

Answer 1

• political principle or practice
• e.g. cold war
• resrticts and limits societies

Question 2

Mob mentality

Answer 2

2011 London Riots

Question 3

Punishment and justice

Answer 3

Justice: process or result of using laws to fairly judge

Today, gov and jusiciary control laws. In Harvest, Master Kent alone can control the law

fuedal system means clear hierarchy

Question 4

witch hunts

Answer 4

moral panic and mass hysteria e.g. Red Scare

• In Salem, male leaders took control, they stripped women and searched for signs of withcraft
• fear of the unknown
• Trump uses the term in self defence (rise of Islamophobia)

Question 5

Threat of terrorism

Answer 5

2013
9/11
fear of IRA

Question 6

Narrator

Answer 6

• gradually detaches himself from the collective
• turbulence within the we causes much of the books tension
• increasingly involved in own narrative. less passive.
• pathological obsession with the pronoun ‘we’
• his contradictory nature alienates the reader
• plot device of burned hand

Question 7

nature

Answer 7

• the villagers are pastoral, penned in by Master Kent
• Crace was inspired by the landscape at watford gap
• saw an aerial view of an enclosure at the tate

Question 8

Crace

Answer 8

• suggests his novels aren’t directly political
• wary of the digital revolution in publishing (used to be a journalist)
• interested in storytelling not facts, so didn’t set his story in a particular time

Question 9

stereotypes of women

Answer 9

femme fatale
whore
maternal/dutiful wife
vulnerability

Question 10

Biblical references

Answer 10

• Genesis 4: cain and Abel - comment on jealousy (shawl, dovecoat, Gleaning queen)
• number 7 is symbolic of completion
• -> creation of new society
• -> new cycle begins

Question 11

Allegory

Answer 11

can be interpreted to have a hidden meaning

information ages
commercially driven world
organised religion
consequences of inaction

Question 12

Structural point

Answer 12

flashback to burning of dovecoat
progression of walt's character
end: idyllic society becomes apocalyptic
starts and ends with fire
setting
pace of change ( 7 days )

Question 13

Political context

Answer 13

Thatcher - revolutionary new leader in 1980s
- changed the economy, focusing in on the technological branch at the expense of miners

modern politics. tension between collective (labour) and individual (conservatives)

Question 14

Modern response

Answer 14

metoo

brexit
trump

Question 15

Death of the author

Answer 15

reader controls the meaning of the text, not the author

but the author can fix the fight e.g. appeal to the readers values

Question 16

language tecniques

Answer 16

personal pronouns
foreshadowing
contrasts and oppositions (e.g. leaders)
natural imagery

Question 17

Pillory

Answer 17

punishment

Question 18

doves

Answer 18

freedom

Question 19

Gleaning feast

Answer 19

class struggle

Question 20

high hat

Answer 20

power and status

Question 21

drawing materials

Answer 21

knowledge and art

Question 22

Quill

Answer 22

creativity

Question 23

shawl

Answer 23

secrecy

Question 24

green sash

Answer 24

jealousy and individualism

Question 25

sheep

Answer 25

meek, collectivism, vulnerability

Question 26

earl king

Answer 26

death

Question 27

walts hand

Answer 27

selfishness

Question 28

shaven head

Answer 28

injustice

Question 29

crops

Answer 29

cycles

Question 30

oxen

Answer 30

exploitation of workers

Question 31

ploughing

Answer 31

loyalty and servitude

Question 32

sowing

Answer 32

new beginings

Question 33

mushrooms

Answer 33

escapism