The Antidote to Alpaca Farming

SCENE SUMMARIES - WITH QUOTES, TECHNIQUES CRITICS & CONTEXT *I have posted this half-completed simply so it can be accessed by others at all times but I will be updating and adding to it in the next few days before the EDEXCEL A Level 'Drama' paper' (7th June) AO1 - Informed, personal & creative responses to texts / using associated concepts and terminology / coherent and accurately written expression AO2 - Analysis of how meanings are formed in literary texts  AO3 - Understanding of the significance and influence of contemporary views and receptions AO5 - Different interpretations of the literary texts in question ACT 1 Scene 1 Introduction to Iago's jealousy and manipulative nature IAGO : "I know my price, I am worth no worse a place" ( 10 ) IAGO : " 'I have already chose my officer' " ( 16 ) IAGO : "Michael Cassio, a Florentine-" ( 19 ) IAGO : "Mere prattle without practice" ( 25 ) IAGO :...

KEY QUOTATIONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS ' There is something about her uncertain manner... that suggests a moth ' ~ Stage Directions (on Blanche), Scene 1 ~ Hints at Blanche's fragility, and perhaps her preference for night-time. It is thought that Blanche was based off of Tennessee Williams' dear sister Rose who suffered with mental instability and was confined to a mental asylum for the majority of her life. An earlier version of the play was entitled 'The Moth'! "There weren't any papers , she didn't show any papers , I don't care about papers ." ~ Stella (to Stanley, about Blanche), Scene ? ~ Stella uses a triplet to emphasise to Stanley her disinterest in how 'Belle Reve' was "lost" and her happiness to accept the vagueness that Blanche delivered this news with. She is evidently exasperated at Stanley for pushing the matter but is this due to a lack of interest in material wealth, or a reluctance to question ...

LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE & FORM A question that emerges fairly commonly is how language, structure and form can be incorporated into an essay. Obviously form varies depending on which paper you're analysing, for instance poetic form would incorporate rhythm, metre and they poem type (sonata, lyric, etc.) whereas prose form may be linked to genre. It is important to look at these three sections of analysis as interlinking. If you took a house for a visual example: Form - House outline Structure - Individual rooms Language - Furniture Below are some aspects of each of these three sections that you should aim to cover within your essays! FORM : o Fiction / Non-fiction: Novel | Poem | Drama | Biography | Travel Writing | Letter | Diary o Genre: Dystopian | Specualtive | Tragedy | Allegory | Epic | Ballad | Sonnet | Elegy | Free Verse | Comedy o Narrative: Omnicient | Monologue | Dialogue | Objective | Self-Conscious | Stanzas | Scenes | Chapters | Rhyme Sc...

CONTEXT Timeline of the American South ( 1800-1940 ) ~ events that may have influenced Williams ~ o  1812-1815: War of 1812  - known as the 'second war of independence'  - fought between the US and UK over territory  - United States nationalism rose after the victory at the Battle of New Orleans o  1812 Louisiana became a state   o  1861-1865: Civil war    - ‘war of southern independence’  - struggle for the abolishment of slavery o  1874: ‘New South’  -  (Henry W. Grady): was a term used to represent the modernisation of the south. This was due to the impacts of the civil war where the south was still relying on crops with low market prices (e.g. cotton) and was also still very rural. The outcomes of this industrialisation and urbanisation meant slavery was abolished  - shown through the binary opposites of Blanche (Southern Belle) and Stanley (Northern Industrial Working Class...

GENERAL Unit 1 - Drama 30% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o SECTION A : One Shakespeare Play ( Othello )  - Critical Essays relating to Shakespeare Play ( A Critical Anthology - Tragedy ) o SECTION B : One other Tragedy or Comedy ( A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams ) HOW'S IT ASSESSED? o Written Examination ( 2hrs, 15mins ) o SECTION A : 35 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 | AO5 ) o SECTION B : 25 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 ) Unit 2 - Prose 20% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o Language, Structure & Form o Theme: Science & Society  - Pre-1900 Text ( Frankenstein - Mary Shelley )  - Other Text ( The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ) HOW'S IT ASSESSED? o Written Examination ( 1hr ) o 40 marks ( AO1 | AO2 | AO3 | AO4 ) Unit 3 - Poetry 30% of total qualification WHAT'S ASSESSED? o Poetic Form, Meaning & Language o SECTION A : Post-2000 Specified Poetry  - Compare with one Unseen o SECTI...