For this assessment there are FOUR topics. Produce a narrative text in response to ONE of the topics located overleaf. Word count – 1000 words N.B. Your piece can be an extract or exposition. You do not need to write a complete story.
Submission Requirements • This assessment sheet • An edited draft that features clear corrections and/or annotations (All drafts are to be kept) N.B. Failure to submit a draft will incur a 10% penalty. • A final copy of your piece – 1.5 spacing, size 12 Arial font • Your piece must feature a title • Include word count • Authentication
Syllabus content Create imaginative texts, including: • adapting medium, form, style, point of view and language • experimenting with elements of style and voice to achieve specific effects • manipulating literary conventions for different audiences and contexts • reflecting on the ways in which the expectations and values of audiences might shape the created text.
Something these characters have in common is that they have never been able to escape or subvert the patriarchy in any meaningful way which would mean independence and the ability to express oneself freely.
Dinner discussion centres around:
"ballbreaker" - a dominating or threatening woman who destroys a man's self-confidence.
Linking between Dull Gret with Angie(similar), and Isabella Bird and Joyce(polar opposites) in past productions
Marlene is unable to grow out of her lack of morality? She cannot cultivate a perspective on her disregard to her humanity in her pursuit of competitive success in the workplace.
Crimes Against Women: Proceedings of the International Tribunal, Diana E. H. Russell We must realize that a lot of homicide is femicide. We must recognize the sexual politics of murder. From the burning of witches in the past, to the more recent widespread custom of female infanticide in many societies, to the killing of women for 'honor,' we realize that femicide has been going on a long time. But since it involves mere females, there was no name for it until Carol Orlock invented the word 'femicide'.
(http://www.dianarussell.com/f/Crimes_Against_Women_Tribunal.pdf)
IDEA: just like 1000 words of a woman walking down a generic hostile city, perspective is like brutalist and cold and what not and like small discriminatory things and stuff. they are trying to meet a guy probably. Probably an extract of the opening or the middle
Taking inspiration from The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) and Top Girls
Also the dialogue will probably be like the final dialogue for Top Girls (between Marlene and Joyce)
Drawing from your knowledge of the context of one of the texts in the Year 12 Feminist Literature Reader, write a fictional narrative that conveys issues typical of the time. In your authentication, justify your choices. What issues did you determine to be pertinent to the historical/cultural/social/personal space in which the text was created and how have you tried to reflect them in your own writing?
'Top Girls', 'The Fountainhead'.
Eighties Reagan/Thatcher years, in America still was disenfranchising of women in the workplace, seen as useless/incompetent.
City is constructed with inspiration from architecture of 'The Fountainhead', highlights the mundane and soulless nature of the corporate America that evolved from the 1980s.
Lengthy paragraphs then short with timestamps, and returns to a long paragraph. Cyclical nature, daily life is mundane and repetitive.
The ending of this chapter serves as an exposition for the rest of the text, as Aubrey is left to tackle with the discrimination she faces, yet her idolisation of Thatcher suggests Aubrey has a desire for power over others, instead of establishing a gender equality, which is heavily inspired by the central theme of Top Girls. Readers question whether Aubrey is naive or has a specific characteristic which will empower her into the pursuit of a good career, much like Marlene in Top Girls.
I intended the text for an American and British audience of the Eighties and after, with the purpose of bringing to light the discrimination that women faced in the workplace, and to warn of how a removal of existing gender bias in the workplace may only lead to a reduced
I drew inspiration from the context of Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls', and additionally from Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'.
When looking at the Reagan/Thatcher years, i.e. during the Eighties, I felt that while progress had been made toward gender equality, there was a subtle abuse and mistreatment of women, most evidently in the workplace, where they were seen as incompetent.
The construction of the city itself through visual imagery is inspired from the bleak brutalist architecture displayed by 'The Fountainhead', which I intended to portray the perspective of women who are disenfranchised by society, and thus see their environment as gloomy and dismal.
The narrative begins with lengthy paragraphs and progresses into short snippets of text alongside the timestamps, and returns to a long paragraph in the end. This is to create a cyclical nature which suggests how her daily life is mundane and repetitive.
The ending of this chapter serves as an exposition for the rest of the text, as Aubrey is left to tackle with the discrimination she faces, yet her idolisation of Thatcher suggests Aubrey has a desire for power over others, instead of equality, which is heavily inspired by the central theme of Top Girls.
I intended the text for an American and British audience of the Eighties and after, with the purpose of bringing to light the discrimination that women faced in the workplace, and to warn of how a removal of existing gender bias in the workplace may only lead to a reduced...
