This document contains detailed analysis, context and in-depth tragic convention exploration for the Drama section of the Edexcel A-Level English Literature course. Further support is given to students with the inclusion of quotation banks and critical theory providing students with the foundations...
Motherhood + Mother figures, Fatherhood + Father Figures
Gender, Responsibility
‘Heaven-sent’ : Elizabeth – Chapter 1
‘Looked upon Elizabeth as mine- mine to protect love and cherish’ - Chapter 1
‘The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful
home.” - Chapter 1
‘But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated deeper and knew
more… I became their disciple’ – Chapter 2
‘Caused me to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had
not seen for so long a time’ – Chapter 4
“You would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature’ - Chapter 10
‘Was I then a Monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all
men disowned?’ – Chapter 13
‘But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no
mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses’ – Chapter 13
‘He (Adam) was allowed to converse with… being of a superior nature: but I was
wretched, helpless, and alone.” – Chapter 15
“I considered myself Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him,
when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me”
– Chapter 15
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