Criticisms/lenses

• Who wrote the stasis and movement article?

  Stanley
• What lens does the stasis and movement article apply?

  marxist
• How does the stasis and movement article link to the text?

  • pinkie behaves in that way as he is in stasis
  • he is in stasis as it is hard to climb the ranks of societal class
  • because he is lower class he is stuck in the lower class for life
• What is the nature-nurture view?

  • nature is where our behaviour is caused by genetics
  • nurture is where our behaviours are caused by our surrounding we grew up in
• How does nature nurture link to the text?

  • pinkie grew up in the seedy underworld of Brighton
  • his behaviour may therefore be linked to the environment he grew up in
  • we can never know if he links to nurture because his family aren't alive
• What does the revolving moral compass of greens brighton rock claim?

  that 'morality is not black and white but black and grey'
• Who wrote the revolving moral compass article?

  crossland
• Who wrote the article on pinkie being a purley evil character?

  G.A Wilkes
• What does the article on pinkie being purely evil state?


  pinkie is a character possessed by evil. nelson place may have contributed to the making of him but fundamentally pinkie is a monster
• Who wrote the article on there being more to brighton rock than just an entertainment?

  R.H Miller
• What did the article on brighton rock being more than just an entertainment say?

  the thriller plot is just the surface underneath the melodrama the dominant concern is profoundly religeous