Comparative Analysis of Death and Gender Stereotypes in Prose

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Explore the presentation of death and gender stereotypes in literary texts, analyzing how authors convey these themes in unique ways. Consider contextual factors and the impact of gender roles on characters' experiences with mortality.


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  1. Writing a comparative essay on Prose

  2. Question the question Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts convey the threat or presence of death. In your answer you must consider the following: the writers methods links between the texts the relevance of contextual factors.

  3. Brainstorm your ideas for both texts Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts convey the threat or presence of death.

  4. Develop your line of argument Question: How is the impact of gender stereotypes on the individual explores in the two texts Argument: In the Woman Who Walked into doors adherence to gender stereotypes impacts neagtively on female, but positively on males; in Regeneration, on the other hand, deviation from stereotypes imapacts negatively on males but positively on females. Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts convey the threat or presence of death.

  5. Now write your own:

  6. Essay structure Intro Comparative point: Text A and B Comparative point: Text A and B Comparative point: Text A and B Conclusion

  7. Read the essay you have been given Underline: the comparative topic sentence the discourse marker that signals the comparison the summative conclusion about what they have in common

  8. Match the AOs to these points AO1 Articulate informed, personal and creative responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology, and coherent, accurate written expression AO2 Analyse ways in which meanings are shaped in literary texts (language, structure, form) AO3 Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received AO4 Explore connections across literary texts ways writers introduce the threat or presence of death: the spiteful nature of 124 in Beloved; writers use of structure, the ways which Morrison reveals Sethe s story in Beloved and the effect of this roles of the narrators or characters in the chosen novels in conveying bravado, fear, etc: Jonathan Harker sattitudes to the warnings from the innkeeper s wife comparisons of the writers uses of settings: Count Dracula s castle and its surroundings, attitudes towards death and the supernatural at the time each text was written: e.g. Victorian values in Dracula how attitudes of the time may be criticised: comparisons of the ways modern readers might react to the values implied in each text, e.g. attitudes to slavery in Beloved or to women in Dracula.

  9. Plan comparative sentences

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