Contextual Analysis Of Heritage Literature
Overzicht
Mrs Bennet is not being silly when she panics about her daughters. Under the law of her day, the family estate passes to a cousin the moment her husband dies, and five unmarried women will be left with almost nothing. Once you know that one fact, a character who looks merely ridiculous becomes a woman with a real emergency on her hands, and the whole novel changes shape.
Context is not background decoration. It is the set of rules the first readers already knew and the writer therefore never explains. This note shows how Regency property law, Jacobean beliefs about kingship and witchcraft, and the fused religion and law of Puritan Massachusetts each make their texts mean what they mean, and how to use that knowledge in an essay without writing a history lesson.
Doelstellingen
- Understand the influence of contextual factors on the interpretation of texts
- Understand the relationship between the text and the context in which it was written
Lesnotitie
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- In Pride and Prejudice, the Longbourn estate is entailed, which means: A) It is mortgaged and must be sold on Mr Bennet's death B) It passes by legal settlement to a male heir, in this case Mr Collins C) It is owned jointly by Mr and Mrs Bennet D) It is rented from Lady Catherine de Bourgh Answer: B
- The Porter's joke about an equivocator in Macbeth alludes most directly to: A) The Spanish Armada B) The trials following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 C) The Scottish Reformation D) The publication of Holinshed's Chronicles Answer: B
- Approximately how many years separate the setting of The Scarlet Letter from the year Hawthorne published it? A) About 20 years B) About 50 years C) About 200 years D) None, it is set in the year it was written Answer: C
- Which assessment objective covers the relationship between a text and the context in which it was written? A) AO1 B) AO2 C) AO3 D) AO4 Answer: D
- Shakespeare presents Banquo as noble and free of guilt, unlike the figure in his source. The most likely contextual reason is: A) Holinshed's Chronicles had been banned B) James I traced his descent from Banquo C) The historical Banquo was a famous saint D) Elizabethan law forbade portraying accomplices to murder Answer: B
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