Elements of PSP Writing Flashcards
Control
Power to direct or influence people’s behaviour or course of events
Rebellion
Action or process of resisting authority, control or convention.
Punishment
Sanction given to someone for an offence
Ambiguous endings
The ending could have multiple possibilities
Oppression
Prolonged persecution an unjust treatment
Literature being a social commentary that gives a voice to the voiceless
The author protests injustice on their behalf. People that are silenced without choice
Social Organisations
Groups that may go against the status quo
Challenge to authority
This may be through direct/indirect action
Treatment of women
Women may be silenced due to patriarchy
Gender Imbalances
Women and men may have contrasting experiences due to gender
The law
The law may be manipulated in different hands. Think: Religious law. Could be used to oppress
Contrasting idealised worlds
This may come through flashbacks or nature
Deprivation of language
Silent or silenced?!
Defiance
The oppressed begin to rise against the tyranny
Morality
Many rules and values change over time and impact what we view as right and wrong (moral or not.) E.g. slavery
