Month: December 2019

Essay Outline

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For the second paper 1 practice it is on articles as a non-literary text type. I chose quotes to do with juxtaposition and irony, descriptive language and their connotations, and the tone. These techniques link with the situation and how Donegan is presenting the different sides of #MeToo movement and the two sides with the feminist and anti-feminist ‘groups’. 

It was hard to decide the different body paragraphs and what to talk about as some things were hard to pick out from the text but also hard to explain. The thesis as well, it is still confusing to write about what Donegan is trying to communicate through the article.

Through the article there was a lot of different language used and different connotations to the words which made it harder to pick out a consistent tone but also a lot of the words linked in with other sections of my essay outline. The descriptive language was the easiest to decide quotes to use as there are a lot of words used that fit with this and the connotations also are clearer to pick out. Though explaining the irony and juxtaposition used in the article was harder as the way it was used I felt it was harder to find good examples. With the tone, it changes as there is a negative tone through most of the article when talking about the assault cases and the anti-feminist movement, probably to do with Donegan’s bias. Though the article kind of intended to show hope for the movement which is shown by the title and how the article ends as well.

IO Preperation

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When preparing for the IO it was difficult to find segments from both the literary and non-literary text types. I couldn’t decide what made lines from different texts connect with each other. I looked through the articles to look for the first pairing and when looking at one of the articles, specifically to do with the “What Christine Blasey Ford reveals about womanhood” article, I found that Moira Donegan gives examples of what is expected of a woman and certain gender roles and behaviours that they are expected to have. This idea that is represented through how Donegan wrote the article is also present in The Handmaid’s Tale through what is expected of the handmaids and other women in their roles for this society. I looked at how the handmaids were expected to act and compared it too how Christine Ford acted.

When using a political cartoon as the non-literary text type I found it was easier as I could clearly see a connection with the ‘Rule of Law’ cartoon and a segment from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ at Jezebel’s when the commander was saying how you ‘can’t cheat nature… at least for men’. I saw a connection as ‘Rule of Law’ implies there is a rule hidden in the law (law against assault and fair judgment of punishment) if you were a man, particularly a rich white man. This links to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ as there are things that men are able to do which in comparison women aren’t, but women understand that men can get away with these things and accept that it’s in men’s nature. I looked at how men can act and be treated differently to women which was what I focused on when thinking of points I can analyse.