Literature

Year 12 Initial Bibliography: A Clockwork Orange Help With Harvard Referencing: http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/content.php?pid=82408&sid=774832#2498517 Books Burgess, A., 2000, A Clockwork Orange , London: Penguin Morrison, B., 1996, Introduction in Burgess, A., 2000, A Clockwork Orange , London: Penguin ·          Leavis, F.R, 2008, The Great Tradition, Faber and Faber, London   ·          Burgess, A., 2002, You’ve Had Your Time , Vintage, London ·          Burgess, A., 1980, 1985 , Arrow, New York ·          Burgess, A., 2002, Little Wilson and Big God , Vintage, London ·          Burgess, A., 1978, The Clockwork Testament , Penguin, London   Television Programmes Strange Days , 2013, television programme, BBC, London, November 2013 Ne...

Charlotte Crewe Candidate Number: 1056 Compare ways in which ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘The History Boys’ portray sex. In ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘The History Boys’, both authors present sex through the lack of maturity and experiences of the male characters as well as exploring alternative attitudes to sex which reflect the novel contextually. Arguably, the portrayal of sex in both texts, on two different extremes, is controversial; in Anthony Burgess’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’, the characters’ attitudes to sex gradually alters as the texts and narratives progresses. Unmistakably, the male characters in ‘The History Boys’ have attitudes based upon a normal ‘school boy’approach towards sex as opposed to the boys in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ who perceive sex as more of a power over women; characters in both texts lack understanding of that sex is a meaningful concept as opposed to just a necessity of men. In both texts, sex is portrayed through ...

Charlotte Crewe Candidate number: 1056 Comment closely on ways in which Heaney presents his attitude towards the past in poem or extract of your choice, considering how far and in what ways in reflects the style and concerns of poems in Death of a Naturalist. In the poem Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney there is a distinct sense of nostalgia but also slight ambivalence towards his childhood memory of picking the blackberries in his past. The other poems within Heaney’s ‘Death of a Naturalist’ collection also feature similar feelings towards his own past. Heaney’s use of biblical language in “Blackberry-Picking” helps to convey his attitudes towards the past which he acknowledges greatly in a range of his poems from the Collection. In this poem Heaney regularly utilises words which share connotations of Christianity and religion; within lines 5-7, Heaney describes the ‘flesh’ and ‘blood’. Suggestively, the use of these words symbolize a Eucharist, which could show how Hea...

How does Heaney convey the process of growing up in ‘Death of a Naturalist’? Heaney conveys the process of going from childhood into adolescence in ‘Death of a Naturalist’ through vivid imagery and his use of language. In the first stanza we are immediately told how the ‘flax-dam festered’; the use of the word ‘festered’ implies a sense of decay and all things dying out, suggesting how the poem is going to reflect the ‘Death’ of something. Even though the voice of the first stanza appears to be unaware of this existing element of change due to the naïve tone, the language used such as ‘rotted’ and ‘sweltered’ shows the sense of threat which is gradually developing on the voice of the first stanza. Heaney is using the flax-dam where he grew up in Ireland to symbolise the process of growing up and how the innocence of childhood is stripped away without you even realising it. The concept of simple pleasures within childhood is reflected when Heaney describes how the ‘warm thick ...