Tempest Hagseed - English Advanced Assessment Task 2 Response

• Gender T1 - Controlling men having ownership

  • Demanding imperatives, "lend thy hand" and "sit down"
  • Dialogue Reflect ownership, "a gift and thine own acquisition

  Male unjust abuse of power
• Gender T2 -

  • Gonzalo's view Nuanced dialogue - "All men idle, all. / And women too, but innocent and pure”
  • Assertive dialogue "I'll bear your logs."

  Women's powerful value in an equal society
• Gender H1 - Modern perception of Miranda

  • 'Feisty Tom-Boy'
  • Relaxed Colloquial terms, "Being a girl is the pits, trust me"
  • Paraprosdokian "The heavy Artillery. Goddess Power"

  More modern depiction of women
• Gender H2 - Limited First Person Narration

  • Third Person Limited Narration, Ownership "Miranda's made a decision: she'll be understudying Ariel"

  En-grained biases, work to come.
• Race T1 - Varying ideas of Caliban

  • Derogatory Terms "Earth" "Slave"
  • Historical allusion to "Of Cannibals", "But nature should bring forth it's own king."

  Despite differences other ethnicities should be equal
• Race T2 - Caliban defies expectations when saying

  • Verse "the isle is full of noises/sounds and sweet airs"

  Knowledge of indigenous
• Race H1 - Reality of racism now and then

  • Catharsis "He gets a bunch of diseases... Then flops over and dies... Silence... It's all too plausible"

  resonances and dissonances of racism
• Race H2 - Empowering and continuing Shakespeare's ideas

  • 'A musical star'
  • Rap - "Aint gonna get on the back of the bus and you can give our land right back to us"

  relating to struggles creating pastiche - understand intentions