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london - writers purpose
To expose the OPPRESSIVE power of the Monarchy and Church
To attack the ABUSE of power by the Monarchy and Church
To show how those in power CONTROL THE MINDS (thoughts and beliefs) of the people
To portray the SUFFERING / MISERY of those who are powerless (the ordinary people)
To reveal the HYPOCRISY of those with power – they cause misery, rather than helping the people
My Last Duchess - writers purpose
To portray TOXIC MASCULINITY in it’s extreme: the Duke EXPECTS TOTAL OBEDIENCE from his wife and to be the centre of her attention
To expose the ABUSE of MALE POWER: the need for DOMINANCE and CONTROL: DF has the power to take life
To portray the OBJECTIFICATION of women: as a portrait, she literally becomes his POSSESSION; Duchess: innocent and POWERLESS; a VICTIM of MALE PRIDE
To show how POWER MAY CONCEAL MORAL CORRUPTION
Emigree - writers purpose
The poem is an ACT OF DEFIANCE AGAINST OPPRESSIVE RULERS who have taken over the narrator’s homeland: she REFUSES TO LET THEM CHANGE HER MEMORY of the place and HER FEELINGS OF AFFECTION for it.
Portrays the STRUGGLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO DEFY THOSE IN POWER: her views and feelings are in conflict with those who have taken power in her homeland
CRITICISES the EFFECTS OF TYRANNY: how it outcasts people, causing them to leave the home they love: she feels NOSTALGIC about the country she cannot return to.
kamikaze - writers purpose
To critique the POWER OF SOCIETY OVER INDIVIDUALS in war; how people can be BRAINWASHED by PATRIOTISM and notions of HONOUR (the family is symbolic of society).
To expose how SOCIETY’S POWER, not the enemy, CAN DESTROY lives and families: by choosing to live, the pilot brings shame on the family and is OUTCAST BY SOCIETY
To explore the STRUGGLE of the INDIVIDUAL to DEFY SOCIETY’S EXPECTATIONS: IRONY that the kamikaze faces devastating consequences for choosing to live and for the love of his family
To explore how LOVE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN PATRIOTISM: he CHALLENGES SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR THE LOVE OF HIS FAMILY; the narrator is his daughter, who is now a parent and REALISES THE SACRIFICE HE MADE
checking out me history - writers purpose
EXPOSES how the British colonisers use EDUCATION as a form of OPPRESSION / CONTROL:
+ British IMPOSE THEIR CULTURE on the people of Guyana - KEEPS THEM IGNORANT of their own culture; what they learn is TRIVIAL; it INFANTALISES them.
The poet DEFIES British colonial control – shows his DETERMINATION to EDUCATE HIMSELF ABOUT HIS OWN CULTURE – EMPOWERS himself.
+ REJECTS the education that is imposed on him
+ What he learns is MEANINGFUL – CONTRASTS the British education.
UNDERMINES British education by presenting FIGURES FROM HIS OWN CULTURE which INSPIRE HIM;
+ They are presented as HEROIC; they REBEL against the colonial powers - this explains why his British education ignores them.
checking out me history - context
Writes using CREOLE DIALECT and LACK OF PUNCTUATION: DEFIANCE AGAINST his FORMAL COLONIAL EDUCATION – uses his own language
