A level Chemistry b (Salters) Lesson Element Teachers' Instructions



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Student Worksheets: 19th Century Texts




Dual Identity/Appearance

Activity 1


a) Read the Jane Eyre extract and/or The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde extract.
Find the quotations that relate to the mental and physical states of Jane Eyre, Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll and write them in the table below.

Character

Mental state

Physical state

Jane Eyre







Mr Hyde







Dr Jekyll






Which quotations are examples of antithesis?


Why is it difficult to separate the descriptions of Mr Hyde’s mental and physical states?


b) Can you find the similes and metaphors in the Jane Eyre extract? Fill in the table below.


Clue

Quotations

What does Jane compare herself and Rochester to?




What does Rochester compare Jane and himself to?



The figurative language Rochester uses is an example of an __ X __ __ __ __ __ D METAPHOR


c) Can you find the following literary devices in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde extract?


Literary device

Quotation

Antithesis


Alliteration


Metaphor


Parallelism




d) Now follow the hyperlinks in the extracts.

What themes do the images, the Jane Eyre extract and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde extract have in common?

Do any of the views expressed by Charlotte Brontë in the Jane Eyre extract agree with those expressed by Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde extract?
Remove the hyperlinks from the texts and add your own. Find images in film, on YouTube or in literature that relate to the themes in the extracts.


Activity 2


a) Read the article by Cesare Lombroso.
What do you think of the views expressed? Fill in the table below.

Your feelings about the views expressed

Quotation

Amusing






Old fashioned






Offensive






Fascinating






?






?





These views appeared in print around the time that The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published. Does this surprise you?


b) How does Lombroso persuade the reader that someone’s character is related to their physical appearance?


Method of persuasion

Quotation


















c) Look again at the extracts from Jane Eyre and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and highlight the phrases that are similar/different to Lombroso’s views.

SIMILAR TO LOMBROSO’S VIEWS

DIFFERENT FROM LOMBROSO’S VIEWS

Which text contains more ideas that are similar to Lombroso’s views?




Extension Activity


Add hyperlinks to the Cesare Lombroso extract, linking the words or phrases to images, excerpts from films or literature that you find on the internet.
The links can either contrast with or be similar to the themes in the extract.

Activity 3


Read the Guardian interview with Adam Pearson:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/13/scarlett-johansson-screen-stigma-disfigurement


Answer the following questions.

In what ways do people judge him by his appearance?

How has this changed recently?

Do you think Adam Pearson’s arguments are persuasive? Why?

Can you think of examples in films and books where the villain has a deformity of some kind?


Writing Activity


Imagine that you are Charlotte Brontë and you have travelled through time to deliver a speech at The Oscars.
What would you have to say about the way villains are depicted with deformities in films? Would you be shocked at this, so long after you wrote Jane Eyre? Did you attempt to rubbish this notion in your novel?
You might like to:

use different modes of persuasion

support your opinions with facts

quote from the relevant parts of Jane Eyre



explain what you were trying to do when you wrote Jane Eyre.



April 2015

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