Cultural Context (Playboy of Western World/Silas Marner/On the waterfront)

Mutant_Fruit

How would i go about answering a question with those texts in mind? I've been kind of banking on theme or issue...

subway_ie

It's gonna be hard to find people who are doing the same comparative as you - unless they're in your class. There's just too much possible combinations. Given that you've got about 13 hours untill you've gotta be in your exam centre, it's probably best to leave out cultural context if you don't know it already. Stick with theme/issue and literary genre.

DEmeant0r

You mean your teacher didn't tell you how?

I'm doing Playboy so I got notes on them:

Well start off with a very general introduction to Cultural context, about your understanding of the term.

Then go on to talk about the "importance of family".
- Pegeen is obedient to her father
- Violent behaviour influence by her father who wanted to hang Christy

Then a paragraph or two on "Class Structure"
- Only one level - peasants
- There are different levels of poverty e.g Michael James owning a pub while on the other hands the Mahon's owning small farms
- Possession is important because of poverty

"Religion"
- Evidence of religion in lifestyles
- Language of fear is used when talking about religion e.g Shawn is "feard" of Fr. Reilly

"Role of men and women"
- Women dominancy
- Women seen as housewives or in this case a pubkeeper.
- Men regarded as patriarchs and had more freedom and opportunities.

Then do a paragraph on your response to the culture of the text.

Hope this helps

Mutant_Fruit

Are you allowed use the different topics like role of women/religeon in the same question? I thought you had to focus on just one item...

If you can do severl, that makes it a LOT easier.

PowerHouseDan

i'm kinda banking on theme /issue aswell i am doin playboy/silas/and a room with a view,anybody be able to copy a summary of playboy for me?cant find mine

Mutant_Fruit

you can read it in an hour! log off and read it!

A good topic for theme/issue for the playboy and silas is "love, and how it changes people"

here are some of the points... silias's love is betrayed at the beginning, and he changes to being a quiet introverted person, and loves gold. Eppie comes, and through her love, he changes to a working member of society.

Nancy changes godfrey from an indecisivie "rogue" (is that the right term?) to being an honest man.

Playboy: Christy starts off as being scared, but through the love of the two women fighhting over him, he becomes a real playboy (not to porno kind you sick people), and leaves being the master of his father.

That can be expanded upon a lot, and easily get 2.5-3 pages on that alone if you want.

DEmeant0r

Originally posted by Mutant_Fruit
Are you allowed use the different topics like role of women/religeon in the same question? I thought you had to focus on just one item...

If you can do severl, that makes it a LOT easier.

You are, as long as the question does not ask you to do one aspect of cultural context you can do as many as you like, although I think 4-5 is enough.

Burago

www.skoool.ie Print off study notes on each of your texts and read, ad nauseum

Swifty

Anyone attempting cultural context is crazy. Genre and theme are so much easier and one of them has to at least come up.