1. How to respond to the statement
The Response!!
How to respond to the statement
Analyse how a significant event illustrated one or more key themes in a text.

2. Analyse significant events key themes
What are the important words in….. Analyse how a significant event illustrated one or more key themes in a text.
Analyse
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key
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3. Analyse means…. Take apart and better understand
Know the constituent parts.
Understand the terminology. Important words.
Know the text.
Quotes
Action
Structure

4. Significant Something important Something that causes other things
Something we need to understand
Something we can see happening in other areas of the text.

5. Events Things that happen Characters involved Setting Why they happen
What they affect

6. Key Things that will cause other things happening
Things that direct the course of action
Things that make us better understand the whole play
Things that are intrinsic to our understanding of the themes of the play

7. Themes Underlying ideas What made the text meaningful
What gave us insights into what it means to be human
What underpins the action.

8. Where to begin? A philosophical look
An unpicking in general terms of the concept
That a significant event changes the course of action
It shows us characters
It precipitates action
It creates interest
It is contrived to show the author’s purpose

9. Author’s Purpose What is it? What does he want us to think about?
How we are directed by fate?
Things happen to people, winning Lotto, by chance and determine our lives.
How our ambition determines how we act
How we can behave immorally when we see an advantage to ourselves

10. Therefore The event must be pivotal in showing us the themes
It must make our understandings clear about why it is important.
This forms the basis of the philosophical start to the response.
We need to be clear in our own minds about what it means.
In a general sense and then to the play itself.

11. The event and the link to themes
Make sure you are clear about the themes. The word ambition is not enough. You need a statement about it. Ambition determines our actions and sometimes these can be immoral and have huge consequences. Fate often determines what happens to us. It is out of our hands. It makes us do things we wouldn’t otherwise do.

12. Ultimately You need to be clear about themes.
What they are and have a clear idea about what they mean to you and to life in general.
The text with suitable quotes.
Follow the plan.