Section C

Question 1

**Explore the significnace of settings/place in two of the crime texts you have studied this year **

Question 2

SETTINGS

The Duke’s gallery

Answer 2

• foregrounds the Dukes characterisation as perversely voyeristic as he ruthlessly objectifies his wife.
• His admission that he ordered th ekilling of his wife because if her autonomy and indepencdence foregrounds Browing’s satricial indictment of gender inequality. The Gallery symbolises the prison inhabitated by all women in a patriachal society where they are the possessions of men (“dowry”)
• The fact the Duchess is “painted on the wall” is symbolic of the extent to wich the grotesque female ideal on the 19th century was passivity, submission and subservience for the Duke celebrates his conyrol over her.
• The fact the Dule owns the gallery foregrounds his wealth and power and reinforces Browing’s protests against toxic masculinity and the patriarchy.

Question 3

SETTINGS

The prison in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’
- significant in developing Wilde’s bid for social reform of the penal system

Answer 3

By focusing on the oppressive claustrophobia and the draconian sisyphean manual labour endured by the prisoners who are incarcerated, Wilde challenges the Justice systen and capital punishment which he considers to be the ultimate betrayal of Christ’s sacrifice.

Question 4

SETTINGS

The lover’s cottage and the storm in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’

Answer 4

• Significant in developing the idea that social conflict lies at the heart of the poem. Porphyria’s “vaanier ties” to a world beyond the walls of the cottage ignites the lover’s fatal resentment
• Contrast between the “gay feast” which suggests the wealthy world Porphyria has left to be with her lover and the numble secluded cottage suggests their social difference.
• The fact Porphyris is also murded in the cottage forges a connection between her “struggling passion”, her lust,a nd the reason behing her murder. As she lets her damp hair “fall” we are faced to see how she is killed for the orginial sin which she is burdened and for her “passion” which has defiled her.
• Browing appears to criticise his society for denying women their sexual identity and social conditioning for rendering men emasculated and threatened by female autonomy and female concupiscence.
• The fact that Porphyria entres the cottage and seducec her passive male lover is a subversion of the gender expectations of the 19th century and it is the equilibrium whcih she disrupts which the lover seeks to restore by killing her.

Question 5

SETTINGS

Dunkirk in ‘Atonement’

Answer 5

• develops McEwan’s attempt to implode the sentimentalised and romaticised view of Dunkirk as a national victory which he criticises as a false narrative of history propagated for generations.
• By demonstarting how the reader has been guilting of misrepresenting a moment in history, McEwan

Question 7

‘Violence is innate within crime literauture’.
Explore the significance of violence in two of the texts you have studied this year.

Question 9

‘It is easy to forgive a criminal if they feel guilt or remorse’
Explore the signifcance of guilt and remorse in two texts you have studied this year.

Question 10

Briony leads a life-time of guilt and this is significnat because it implies that Briony is a victim of a mistake she makes as a child.

Answer 10

• She compares her guilt to a ‘rosary to be fingered for a lifetime’ with the eternal loop suggestive of the relentless of the guilt which