Awww, thank you!!! I'll definitely be covering a video on prose (most likely the Atonement) and poetry (either Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or the collection of poems by Gillian Clark). Is there either that you'd like to see first?
Hey, I know that this might sound like an imposition but can you make another video for the A levels literature syllabus? Preferably from the components of Athol Fugard, Robert browning, Emily Dickinson, Handmaid's tale
Thanks so much for this video, it is really helpful! Could you also upload the PowerPoint of the video so I revise from it too? Also, are you planning to do Songs of Ourselves or Atonement in the future? I'd be really grateful if you did, you explain things so well.
Thank you for leaving a comment, I just edited the description to include the presentation! I plan to do Atonement for prose and Gillian Clarke's collection for poems :) I think both videos will be up in around a month, hope this helped!
I have a question I am struggling with picking similarities and differences in how masculinity is presented in both texts cat on the hot tin roof and Regeneration please can you give me some ideas on the theme of masculinity. Thank you
Great question! I'd discuss gender roles during this time period, with the common trend of the women serving as the one to take care of the household, and the man having more of a strengthened role as the figurehead. We see this effectively take place with Big Mama and Big Daddy, with how Big Mama gives Big Daddy all of her love and pride without getting much respect back. Then, you can discuss how Maggie and Brick represent a parallel with how the couple seems to have limited shared desire for children and Maggie tends to take the authoritative, typically masculine, role. Then you can talk about the centralization of this time period, as without technology, most things have to happen in person to happen at all. This relates back to the structure of Cat since all of the events occur within a singular room on a singular day. And I'd also mention the title of the book in general. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Well, the roof is hot because the play takes place in Summer in the South on a large plantation. And, the heat can also serve as wordplay for how tensions heat up and boil over later on in Act 3. The cat can represent Maggie or Mae, and the heat of the hot roof makes them want to jump out of their unsatisfactory relationships. However, due to the time period and place, this isn't reasonable because divorce was frowned upon and would only end negatively. For example, Maggie was born into a poor family, and divorcing Brick would only put her back into that kind of situation. You can also discuss the homophobia going on at the time. Since homosexuals weren't accepted into common society, gay people felt like they needed to hide with who they are. For example, a college student at Brick's fraternity was gay and he was soon harassed out of the school. Additionally, after Skipper confessed his feelings, he died soon after. And Brick now faces a severe depression as perhaps he realized his feelings for Skipper and lives in denial through his heterosexual relationship. Let me know if you have any more questions! There might be a few more talking points but these are the ones I can think about off the top of my head. Thanks for commenting!
Similarities: Cat has a little bit of regeneration through the moments where people try to reach out to Brick about his alcoholism. These encounters represent how they are trying to regenerate Brick as an entire person (as he used to be quite ambitious as a confident, healthy athlete). Not to mention, Big Mama acts as a regenerative person as she tries to take care of Brick and Big Daddy, which represents a parallel to how Maggie tries to fix Brick and get to the root of the problem. In this, you can extend the idea that femininity is symbolism for regeneration and healing as the women presented take that caretaker role. Differences: Cat represents a lot of decay. Decay of relationships as well as the decay of Big Daddy's health. Both forms of decay take place as the play progresses, with them being their worse at the end. Big Daddy goes from being hopeful about not having cancer to getting horrible pains and screaming out, and Brick's relationship with Maggie goes from tense to practically fake as Maggie forces him to go to bed with her at the end. You can use the symbolism of the rose-tinted lamp to show how it's fake regeneration as it is only rose-tinted glasses for the audience. TL;DR Paragraph 1: Similarity - the women regenerate the men; symbolism that feminism is pure/healing for a man Paragraph 2: Difference - Relationships; Brick and Maggie (tense -> broken/fake); symbolism in rose-tinted lamp Paragraph 3: Difference - Cancer; cancer is inherently damaging and Big Daddy's cancer only gets worse throughout the play (hopeful -> crippled with pain); symbolism with big clock to represent how Big Daddy's time is running out, not regenerating, as the play progresses I think there's more differences bc the play is inherently dark and pessimistic, leading to decay taking more of a spotlight than pure regeneration. Hope this helped! Let me know if I need to elaborate more on anything :D
thank you! my mocks are next week, so this will really help me for my paper 1 eng lit exam :]
No problem!! Thank you for watching
that shit was fire im abt to aice my test tomorrow. thanks goat
Please do more analysis or anything that can benefit us in our AS exam. This video is amazing and thank you so much for detailed analysis.
Awww, thank you!!! I'll definitely be covering a video on prose (most likely the Atonement) and poetry (either Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or the collection of poems by Gillian Clark). Is there either that you'd like to see first?
@@jadeteachesaice9713 No worries! We are doing Songs of Ourselves selected poems Volume 2 & Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 for prose.
@@aanonymous1 Oooo gotcha, I'll also try to keep those in mind. Thank you for watching/commenting!
pls do one on Atonement! i love your videos, they are really helpful for my As exams!@@jadeteachesaice9713
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this saved my a level today honestly thankyou sm!!!!!!!
Jade, I really appreciate this video. I got a C on my aice lit exam and information from this video definitely helped with that!!!
Hi...i'm from Switzerland and will have a speaking exam about this play and it is really good explained...thank you very much!!🎉🎉
I got my A Level english exam tomorrow so thanks 💀 i barely revised and i got to compare this play with The Handmaids Tale.
Hey, I know that this might sound like an imposition but can you make another video for the A levels literature syllabus? Preferably from the components of Athol Fugard, Robert browning, Emily Dickinson, Handmaid's tale
Great video!!!
thank you so much for this . I would love to see more AS content , maybe poems by Robert browning ?
Ooo, I'll consider it! My class will be going over poems by Gillian Clark, so I'm more likely to post those for sure. Thank you for watching!!
@@jadeteachesaice9713 thank you! Also update i got the sec highest grade for my exam thanks to your notes 😭🤍
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Brick doesn't say the line "we occupy the same cage"...Maggie does
Thanks so much for this video, it is really helpful! Could you also upload the PowerPoint of the video so I revise from it too? Also, are you planning to do Songs of Ourselves or Atonement in the future? I'd be really grateful if you did, you explain things so well.
Thank you for leaving a comment, I just edited the description to include the presentation! I plan to do Atonement for prose and Gillian Clarke's collection for poems :) I think both videos will be up in around a month, hope this helped!
@@jadeteachesaice9713 Many thanks!!
great presentation
I wish u the best
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Hi! what other AS level texts have you done for literature? If you dont mind me asking!
What about animal metaphor for gooper and big daddy
I have a question I am struggling with picking similarities and differences in how masculinity is presented in both texts cat on the hot tin roof and Regeneration please can you give me some ideas on the theme of masculinity. Thank you
how would you structure an essay about the american south
Great question!
I'd discuss gender roles during this time period, with the common trend of the women serving as the one to take care of the household, and the man having more of a strengthened role as the figurehead. We see this effectively take place with Big Mama and Big Daddy, with how Big Mama gives Big Daddy all of her love and pride without getting much respect back. Then, you can discuss how Maggie and Brick represent a parallel with how the couple seems to have limited shared desire for children and Maggie tends to take the authoritative, typically masculine, role.
Then you can talk about the centralization of this time period, as without technology, most things have to happen in person to happen at all. This relates back to the structure of Cat since all of the events occur within a singular room on a singular day.
And I'd also mention the title of the book in general. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Well, the roof is hot because the play takes place in Summer in the South on a large plantation. And, the heat can also serve as wordplay for how tensions heat up and boil over later on in Act 3. The cat can represent Maggie or Mae, and the heat of the hot roof makes them want to jump out of their unsatisfactory relationships. However, due to the time period and place, this isn't reasonable because divorce was frowned upon and would only end negatively. For example, Maggie was born into a poor family, and divorcing Brick would only put her back into that kind of situation.
You can also discuss the homophobia going on at the time. Since homosexuals weren't accepted into common society, gay people felt like they needed to hide with who they are. For example, a college student at Brick's fraternity was gay and he was soon harassed out of the school. Additionally, after Skipper confessed his feelings, he died soon after. And Brick now faces a severe depression as perhaps he realized his feelings for Skipper and lives in denial through his heterosexual relationship.
Let me know if you have any more questions! There might be a few more talking points but these are the ones I can think about off the top of my head. Thanks for commenting!
Please How can I compare regeneration with Cat on the hot tin roof in terms on similarities and differences and both text message.
Similarities: Cat has a little bit of regeneration through the moments where people try to reach out to Brick about his alcoholism. These encounters represent how they are trying to regenerate Brick as an entire person (as he used to be quite ambitious as a confident, healthy athlete). Not to mention, Big Mama acts as a regenerative person as she tries to take care of Brick and Big Daddy, which represents a parallel to how Maggie tries to fix Brick and get to the root of the problem. In this, you can extend the idea that femininity is symbolism for regeneration and healing as the women presented take that caretaker role.
Differences: Cat represents a lot of decay. Decay of relationships as well as the decay of Big Daddy's health. Both forms of decay take place as the play progresses, with them being their worse at the end. Big Daddy goes from being hopeful about not having cancer to getting horrible pains and screaming out, and Brick's relationship with Maggie goes from tense to practically fake as Maggie forces him to go to bed with her at the end. You can use the symbolism of the rose-tinted lamp to show how it's fake regeneration as it is only rose-tinted glasses for the audience.
TL;DR
Paragraph 1: Similarity - the women regenerate the men; symbolism that feminism is pure/healing for a man
Paragraph 2: Difference - Relationships; Brick and Maggie (tense -> broken/fake); symbolism in rose-tinted lamp
Paragraph 3: Difference - Cancer; cancer is inherently damaging and Big Daddy's cancer only gets worse throughout the play (hopeful -> crippled with pain); symbolism with big clock to represent how Big Daddy's time is running out, not regenerating, as the play progresses
I think there's more differences bc the play is inherently dark and pessimistic, leading to decay taking more of a spotlight than pure regeneration.
Hope this helped! Let me know if I need to elaborate more on anything :D
@@jadeteachesaice9713 thank you very much