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What is allusion?
Types of Allusion
- Myths, legends and folklore
- Achilles
- Icarus
- Thor's hammer
- Hercules
- Yowies
- Prometheus
- Robin Hood
- King Arthur
- Pandora's box
- the Banshee
- Cupid
- the Dreamtime
- Biblical
- Great flood
- The cruxifiction
- Eden
- David and Goliath
- Literary
- The Wizard of Oz
- Harry Potter
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
- Jekyll and Hyde
- Snow White
- Historical
- Witch hunts
- Hitler
- Holocaust
- Titanic
- Rasputin
- Mother Teresa
- French Revolution
- The Black Death
- slavery and its abolition
- Einstein
- WW2 atomic bomb
Group work
- Get into groups of four - these are your HOME GROUPS (???)
- Each member of the group is allocated a number 1 - 4. If there are 5 people in the group because of an uneven number in the class, two people will be a number $2\times$ number 4s.
- Gather into your specialist groups for the research segment. This involves all the 1s sitting together, all the 2s sitting together, etc.
- For this activity, hte1s will research the respective things (Myths, Biblical, Literary, Historical)
The epic solo task
- Witch hunts
- Witch hunt is a search for peopel who have been labeled witches. More generally, it is a search for evidence of witchcraft. This has happened throughout the world, but predominatly occured during "Early Modern Europe"(late 15th to early 16th century)
- Most famously, the Salem witch trials, which occurred in Springfield, Massachusetts, occurred in colonial America. This event refers to the prosecution of Salem Village residents for witchcraft, and is the deadliest witch hunt.
- The Salem witch trials ahve been referenced in many forms of modern literature, e.g. Rachel Dyer by John Neal. In filmography, there is the "exploitation-teen comedy film" Assassination Nation, of which the Salem witch trials serves as a form of contemporary social commentary.
- Hitler
- Hitler was a failed artist. His failure to enter an art university motivated his political beliefs. (made up)
- Hitler was a dictator of Germany, gaining power in the interwar period(between WW1 and WW2). His ideology of nazism, was very nationalist and prejudiced towards specific minorities. (German supremacist)
- He was a great orator
- Holocaust
- The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
- One of its main orchestrator was Reinhart Heydrich, who was thankfully asssassinated (operation anthropoid)
- Titanic
- RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time.
- The immediate aftermath of its sinking was a wave of press announcements which shocked the U.S and U.K. Insurance had to be paid to families.
- Rasputin
- A Russian mystic, who proclaimed himself a "holy man". He was a close friend to Russian Tsar Nicholas II, and his relationship with the royal family was highly scrutinised. It is believed he engaged in unsavory relations with the queen. He was later murdered out of fear for his influence over the monarchy.
- Mother Teresa
- An Albanian-Indian Catholic nun. She was canonised as a saint. She was very charitable, and received many honours. However, she was criticised for her views on abortion and contraception, as well as the poor conditions in her houses for the dying.
- French Revolution
- A period of revolution in France, which sought to replace the absolute monarchy with a liberal democracy. Resistance to the revolution was espoused by the Catholic church, and other more conservative elements of French society. They stood for liberty, egality, and fraternity. This period was highly unstable, and democratic establishments were formed and dissolved regularly. This occurred until the rise of Napoleon, who established a dictatorship and ending the Revolutionary period.
- The Black Death
- A plague that spread from 1346 to 1353 and is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history.
- It killed 75-200 million people
- Believed to originate from central asia, i.e. Kyrgyzstan
- slavery and its abolition
- Slavery is the concept of the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labor. Slavery has existed for most of human history, but was only criminalised by December 6, 1865 in the United States and around 1810 by the British Empire. After which, the majority of the world followed suit. However, slavery is still prominent today. In 2019, approximately 40 million people are illegally (all slavery is illegal) enslaved.
- Einstein
- A German-born theoretical physicist, who made numerous contributions to physics, e.g. the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, the funny $E=mc^{2}$. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, and had the honour of one of the elements of the periodic table being named after him(Einsteinium). In popular culture, he is portrayed as the embodiment of modern physics.
- WW2 atomic bomb
- A weapon of mass destruction first made by U.S. scientists in the later years of WW2. The first atomic bomb was made by the Manhattan Project, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. It was first used on the Japanese empire (deserved) in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Used to allude to anything related to the Cold war, or the end of WW2.
Working out the importance of allusions
- Find out what the original story/person/event was all about and list some key characteristics and traits.
- What similarities are there between the original text and the one you're analysing?
- Why has the creator drawn our attention to this story/person/event through allusion?
- How does all of this affect your response to and interpretation of, the text?
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