Key Quotations (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Central theme Wertenbaker explores in play
Central theme Wertenbaker explores in play
Redemptive potential of theatre
Purpose of metatheatrical irony in play
Purpose of metatheatrical irony in play
Exposes colonial hypocrisy
Brechtian alienation effect in Recruiting Officer scene
Brechtian alienation effect in Recruiting Officer scene
Audience sees gap between performed words & actual situation
What Recruiting Officer prologue ironically presents
What Recruiting Officer prologue ironically presents
Transportation as patriotic, selfless act
Technique name for Wisehammer's shifting 'country' meanings
Technique name for Wisehammer's shifting 'country' meanings
Polysemy
What Mary forgets when performing Kite's lines
What Mary forgets when performing Kite's lines
Judge's sentence & brutal prison conditions
Phillip's Enlightenment belief about convicts
Phillip's Enlightenment belief about convicts
Unexpected situations reveal unexpected virtues
Tench's essentialist view of criminals
Tench's essentialist view of criminals
Crime is in their nature, unchangeable
What Duckling desperately demands freedom from
What Duckling desperately demands freedom from
Being watched all the time
What Liz Morden's religious doubt reveals
What Liz Morden's religious doubt reveals
Profound spiritual anguish, humanises her