[english] more practice prompts - women/feminism

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 - gods are discriminatory/corrupt/voltaile
 - gods' ignorance is detrimental to Trojans
 - Athene - submits to Poseidon
 - gods are discriminatory/corrupt/voltaile
 - gods' ignorance is detrimental to Trojans
 - Athene - submits to Poseidon

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+> In Euripides' *The Women of Troy*, the women are all passive victims
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+Victims of hardship are typically cautious to fight back and hence are passive to further suffering. However, Euripides emphasises how this is not necessarily true, and exemplifies this through the responses of some of the women. There is a great contrast in the responseses to the d
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+> Euripides' *Women of Troy* is not only an innovative perspective on the aftermath of the Trojan War, but also a portrayal of the barbaric actions of the Greeks towards the women and children the subjugated in the defeat of Troy. Discuss.
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+1. Aftermath of war
+2. Barbaric actions of greeks
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+Women
+- what happened to them
+- imagery (violent, vivid) - depicts the women as lamenting. Loss of life, uncertain future, devestation
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+Innovative perspective
+- strength of the women of Troy
+- condemning of Greeks
+- Condemning war
+- actions have consequences.
+- focus on the victims
+- direct reaction to Melos
+- women aren't always passive victims
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+Greeks
+- journey back to Athens
+- Gods impact on the trip
+- loss of life
+- loss of courage
+- loss of humanity

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 - war effects everyone (e.g. Astyanax) therefore everyone should see the brutal outcome
 - acknowledgement that children should not be involved
 
 - war effects everyone (e.g. Astyanax) therefore everyone should see the brutal outcome
 - acknowledgement that children should not be involved
 

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+## Extra English 3/4/19 - Building complexity
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+### Structure
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+- interesting opening statement/quote
+- background hooks
+- link topic to views & values
+- do not list points
+- emotional engagement - e.g. poignantly, "barbaric cruelty" etc
+- do not evaluate play
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+### Vocabulary
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+- make a list of useful words/synonyms for essays
+- suffering/grief, comfort, cruelty, condemnation, hope
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+### Ideas
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+- subtlties of characters - offer rebuttals/contrasts
+- subtle differences between characters
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+### Detailed knowledge
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+- discuss >1 character / paragraph
+- focus on ideas/motifs in paragraphs, not characters
+- comment on stage directions, context etc
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+### Views and values
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+- rewrite link sentences as views & values statements
+- develop a personal interpretation of the text
+- consider how Taylor's translation impacts the message
+- context (time, society etc) - Euripides warns his contemporaries against war
+- women - Hecuba's power over men vs Helen's power over women
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+### Text construction
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+- motifs/images - water, song/dance, animals (dehumanisation), personification of Troy
+- graphic depictions of violence & dehumanisation
+- entire play is like its own ending/conclusion (lamenting, despair)
+- gods do not care about Trojans, but readers do
+- discuss significance of single characters and representation of groups, e.g. Talthybius & Menelaus are the only Greek characters.
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