Texts in Time
When you consider both texts what have you discovered about humanity and yourself?
Framing the response: -The ethical and moral dilemma explored by both texts provides you with fertile ground for crafting an integrated comparison and contrast that considers explicitly the influence of times, contexts and values -The creators and the creations -The director and the observer -Collateral damage: the women, self, creations, family...
-The ideas: curiosity, imagination, mortality, humanity, identity, morality, exploitation
Similar content: Humanity’s ability to harness the imagination to push the boundaries of nature and the limitations of life provides the narrative frame for both texts.
Framing the response further:
A range of theses or lines of arguments
Grounded in context, times and values
Integrated through the consideration of ideas, characterisation, setting, language features, etc in both texts.
Both texts explore a conundrum that resonates in in every era: the tension between the incredible potential of our imagination and thirst for knowledge and the moral and ethical dilemma of how far are we prepared to go to satisfy our curiosity and achieve our dreams. ‘What piece of work is a man?’
“I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle; and may regulate a thousand celestial observations, that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death...”
Framing the response: -The ethical and moral dilemma explored by both texts provides you with fertile ground for crafting an integrated comparison and contrast that considers explicitly the influence of times, contexts and values -The creators and the creations -The director and the observer -Collateral damage: the women, self, creations, family...
-The ideas: curiosity, imagination, mortality, humanity, identity, morality, exploitation
Similar content: Humanity’s ability to harness the imagination to push the boundaries of nature and the limitations of life provides the narrative frame for both texts.
Framing the response further:
A range of theses or lines of arguments
Grounded in context, times and values
Integrated through the consideration of ideas, characterisation, setting, language features, etc in both texts.
Both texts explore a conundrum that resonates in in every era: the tension between the incredible potential of our imagination and thirst for knowledge and the moral and ethical dilemma of how far are we prepared to go to satisfy our curiosity and achieve our dreams. ‘What piece of work is a man?’
“I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle; and may regulate a thousand celestial observations, that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death...”