ENGLISH LIT GCSE PAPER 2 revision

ENGLISH LIT GCSE PAPER 2 revision

1. An Inspector Calls

   • "Eva Smith"
     • Eva=Eve=first woman=representing all women
   • "Daisy Renton"
     • "Rent" = her job as a prostitute.
       • Lower class
         • Upper class= Gerald & Crofts
           • Middle class= Birlings
             • Mrs Birling is her "husband's social superior"
     • "Daisy" innocence. IRONY
   • "There's a fair chance that i might find my way into the next honours list. Just a knighthood of course."
     • Downplaying achievement to come across as modest
       • This just serves to highlight his societal status
     • "Just"
   • "Girls of that class"

2. My Last Duchess

   • "As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name to anybody's gift"
     • His surname is very important
   • "Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse, which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"
   • "I gave commands, and all smiles stopped together"
   • "She smiled, no doubt, whene'er I passed her but who passed without much the same smile?"
   • LINKS TO OZYMANDIAS
     • Power of the individual
   • FORM
     • ozymandias=broken sonnet
       • mirrors broken statues
     • My Last Duchess= blank verse

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