vinays essay plans Flashcards
deception in dorian and dracula
–> omnipresence and overwhelming
- perception of characters
—> dorians appearances in C actions C12 - still pretty
—> draculas C1 = friends –> colours C2/C3 renfield C6 -> C19 - setting
—> C1 -> C4 -> C16 contrast
—> C1 - detrimental effects
—> dorians death C20, basils death C13
—> jonathons improvement C2 –> draculettes
struggle in dorian and dracula
–> struggle against evil
—> temptation and desire:
-> C3 resisted draculetters, sexual dracula C13
-> C10 book, portrait C13
—> inner struggle
-> backstory dracula C23, lucy already somewhat C5
-> within dorian C1, basil C6
—> succumb
-> physical - biting of dracula C8 -> C16, C21
-> physiological - C10 opportunity but doesnt, C13 deaths -> C20 his death
openings in dracula and dorian
–> importance and purposeful
–> establishes in gothic genre
-> echo myth, suicide theme, soul
-> power, draculettes, dead children
—> establishes characters
–> delayed eponymous, portrait, backstory, dorian and relationships
–> delayed, duality of dracula, colour theory, interrupts
—> establishes themes
–> uncertainty C1 setting, myths, impending doom
–> setting, lack of freedom
relationships in dorian x dracula
—> detrimental/ unhealthy
—> corruptive
–> C1 influence, in C2, C5 - feeling better, C10 - basil of reflection
–> Lucy –> bloofer, from C5/C8 positive –> C16 corruption + Mina C22
—> death
–> post identity C5 -> c7 suicide. death of soul C7, basil C13
–> Lucy C16 due to dracula. quincey and renfield
—> lose identity
–> marriage C4, lady henry, illusion C1
–> C5 - Mina and Jonathon, C9 happy but lost, where is Lucy at the end
morality in guiseppe, the deliverer and the lammas hireling
—> distinct lack of morality in situations that desire it most
–> immoral acts - hidden violence LH, disposal of children
–> justification of immorality to heighten situation
–> cyclical nature of immorality - endings and futility of sin vs removal of identity argued in guiseppe and deliverer
control in please hold and eat me
—> lack of control speakers have upon their own lives
–> insidious nature for control - appearance of freedom in both poems, but really in control e.g. capitilisation, icing
–> confliction - personalisation of robot, becoming like them in please hold and reducing identity in eat me
–> attempt to regain control - anger but then consumes, kills in eat me but emptiness
childhood in an easy passage and to my nine year old self
—> bittersweet, complex experience
–> strong excitement, but fear with childhood experience -> fear of others, unknown TM9YOS
–> exhilarating time of childhood contrast/ exemplified via contrast to adulthood, sacrifices in TM9YOS vs mundanity of adulthood in AEP, use quotes to show difference
–> conflation of adulthood and childhood - adult views a blurring in AEP, but attempt to relive thrills, fails in TM9YOS
perspective in ode to a grayson perry urn and the hournal of a dissapointed man
—> complex, multiple to shape views
–> critical - air of superiority in both
–> fascination
–> conclusion - understanding and acceptance in ode whereas emptiness/ confusion in journal
change in the furthest distances i have travelled and an easy passage
—> powerful force that alters perspective
–> excitement to mundane
–> remnants of excitement remain
–> resolution - stable or not
motherhood in material and effects
—> significant impact on own lives
–> consumes identity - nothing outside of domestic sphere
–> appreciation of motherhood after loss, self-sanctuary
–> long lasting effects - moving on or forever guilty, cyclical
masculinity in eat me and chainsaw vs pampas grass
–> in continual conflict with femininity + careful defined extendedn metaphor. binary opposites, stark difference
–> physical differences between the two, chainsaw attitude, difference in person vs object in EM
–> control of masculinity over femininity, insidious EM vs very violent in CVPG
–> lasting impact - weakness of masculinity in chainsaw, emptiness in eat me
identity in a minor role and eat me
—> not inherent, altered by external focus
–> eroded by trauma
–> appears others
–> reclaiming identity
how is past and present explored in an easy passage and to my nine year old self
—> bittersweet experience
–> nostalgia to experience past in present
–> as progress through, loss of freedom
- acceptances or denial of change
illness in a minor role and on her blindness
—> determiness lives of those with illness
–> disasocciate on OHB - mother, relayed by speaker who then disassociates humour. AMR - distraction of others than illness
–> adopt performative behaviour - facades in OHB,
–> long lasting consequences, freedom in death OHB, conclusion on thoughts of illness AMR
perspective in an easy passage and to my nine year old self
—> continually changing, of the time of life they are in
–> adults perspective
–> childs perspective - - childish language TM9YOS
–> attempt at conflation of both perspectives, not always successful - adult view of child, reflection on different times
