Doctor Faustus - Student Lectures

All of the lectures recorded by the class are available here.

Doctor Faustus - The Character of Faustus

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Media Language - Posters

The Truman Show - Essay Guide

The Truman Show Critical Response - Essay - Guide - Bullet Boints from Mister Connor

The Truman Show - Reality Television - WOW WORDS

Some vocabulary from this week's discussions...

Voyeurism
noun

the practice of obtaining pleasure by looking at people, especially secretively.

Prurience
noun
being inclined to have, or characterized by an unhealthy interest in other people's affairs.

Schadenfreude
noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

The Heisenberg Principle
The notion that the behaviour of a subject changes when it is observed.

Empathy
noun
the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

Standard Grade - Writing - Exam Preparation

 

Tess of the d’Urbervilles – The Most Important Line?

1.    “’Good night, Sir John,’ said the Parson.”

2.    “And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!’”

3.    “Well, my big Beauty, what can I do for you?”

4.    “When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!”

5.    “Yes; at that dance on the green; but you would not dance with me. O, I hope that is no ill-omen for us now!”

6.    “You are very good. But it strikes me that there is a want of harmony between your present mood of self-sacrifice and your past mood of self-preservation.”

7.    “I am ready.”