Quote Learning website / app

This app/website is designed to help you learn quotes in English (and whole other languages).
http://www.memrise.com/
Create your own account (free), then search for Tis Pity. A brilliant way to learn quotes.

Key quotes from Tis Pity...

... in a way that helps you learn them! Brilliant:

https://www.examtime.com/en/p/954438-tis-pity-she-s-a-whore--key-quotations-flash_card_decks

Platonic Love: a simple guide

This is pretty succinct... and compares with Freud's Eros.

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/Love.htm

Marvell according to the internet

Literature students (of varying ability) comment on all of his poems here:

http://genius.com/search?q=marvell

Add your own comments to help other students around the world...

A Brief Guide to Romanticism

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-romanticism

Blood in Tis Pity

Some interesting ideas on blood (family, passion, violence) in Tis Pity.
Worth a read, with some good AO3 quotes too...

http://ucb-cluj.org/announcing-clujs-fall-2011-issue/vol-21-spring-2012/2903-2/

Or was Emily Dickinson epileptic?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0137ynp

Aestheticism and Decadence in Dorian Gray

http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/aestheticism-and-decadence

Lots of useful Dorian articles on here

The Metaphysical poets: In Our Time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cbqhq

You can quote for A03 and A04...

Effective revision tips

5 tips from The Guardian

10 tips from the Independent

If you have any good ones, add them to the comments...

Mary's Scandals

Thanks for these... there's still one missing, so upload it if it's yours, or bring it in and I'll do it.

A modern take on what it means to be human

This is worth a read because:

a) you can spot similarities and differences with all the other attempts to explain our humanity (Plato, Freud, etc), and

b) it's rather lovely.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/01/andrew-marr-it-urge-create-makes-us-human

Emily Dickinson: Bipolar?

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/16/news/cl-63914

Dorian Gray

Watch this space.

Freud vs Plato

Id, Ego and Superego? Or Reason, Emotion and Appetites?
Here's a good article that explores the similarities.


http://www.electrummagazine.com/2013/05/dreams-and-the-psyche-through-an-ancient-lens/


One important thing to remember is that these urges existed before we had names for them. The names are just attempts to categorise and explain them. So there is no 'right' interpretation, only interpretations that can explain our behaviour more or less effectively than others.

Jake does Frankenstein

Some clever student somewhere studying Frankenstein for A2 covers some of the key themes and finds some key quotes for you. Worth a read, and of course, worth using colours etc to learn quotes:


http://jakedoesrevision.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a2-english-literature-gothic-doubles-in.html


And here he is again on women in Frankenstein. Some good A03:


http://jakedoesrevision.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a2-english-literature-frankenstein.html

Five quotes worth learning

Each of these Frankenstein quotes fits with at least one of the past paper questions. Learn these by heart, and also being ready to analyse meaning and language within these quotes:




https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/quotes.html

Watching clips = Frankenstein revision!

Watch this once just for fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcJwt8XB4M
Then watch it again from different 'creation' perspectives:


Victor as God
Victor as artist
Victor as mother


See if you can see which shots / body language / costume choices reinforce these ideas.
Then have another look at the text.


Also worth watching is this documentary:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422411861&v=Nf4w8heMmKA&x-yt-cl=84924572


- Will remind you of AO4 (how it was written)
- Will give you some AO3 quotes ("the monster was Mary's misery made flesh.")

Tis Pity according to OCR

What the exam board want you to know about Tis Pity:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/75929-unit-f663-tis-pity-she-s-a-whore-john-ford-introduction-and-guided-reading.pdf


And the mark scheme for sections A and B:
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/176118-mark-scheme-unit-f663-drama-and-poetry-pre-1800-june.pdf

Frankenstein: The Ethics of Creation

Georgia State University's take on Frankenstein and key themes: a good, relatively easy read.


Here's the link to the theme of creation, but you can navigate to other themes, too.

http://frankenstein.lmc.gatech.edu/EthicsOfCreation.html

Extract:


One of Shelley's dominant themes is the obligation to one's own creation. When Victor's lack of judgment leads him to create a misshapen being, his self-loathing for the results of his act quickly become hatred for the monster. After the creature's birth, "I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited" (497). He procrastinates in dealing with the monster for as long as possible, but to no avail. When he finally returns to his apartment, he notes that "I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room… I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit" (499). Victor's ensuing illness allows him to put off dealing with his actions for a few months, but ultimately, the more Victor procrastinates, the more he is mentally haunted by the monster. As the plot escalates, the monster begins to quite literally haunt him with the murder of his loved ones. Thus Shelley uses Victor to show that avoiding the responsibilities of a creator is a serious sin that will destroy himself and others