The Struggle for Identity - Has, Barriers & Wants (Race) - Flashcards in A Level and IB English Literature

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Created on: 06-01-13 12:38

Has - Prose

"All right, I was colored. It was fine." Wright realises that he will always be defined by the colour of his skin and understands the discrimination ahead of him that will bring violence and beatings.

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Has - Play

Joan: "I dressed as a boy... Women weren't / allowed in the library" Joan is discriminated against due to her gender, she is rejected throughout society.

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Has - Novel

"That is how you can get lost, in a sea of names." Atwood uses her characters names and titles to represent stolen identity taken from the regime defining who you are.

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Has - Poem

"And I, who am black, would love her [...] but she turns her back on me" Personified his country into two women, he is black and is rejected by his home in the South.

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Barriers - Prose

"The pressure of Southern living kept me from being the kind of person that I might have been." Wright feels as though the pressure has stopped him from being himself, the feeling his identity was forced upon him.

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Barriers - Play

Mr Kidd finds difficulty "working for a woman"... says Marlene is "not natural" - Women are prejudiced by society stopping them from achieving and when they do it is frowned upon.

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Barriers - Novel

"I never looked good in red, it's not my colour" Atwood uses her character to symbolise how she has sacrificed at least part of her life due to the roles society has forced them into.

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Barriers - Poem

"That is the South, and I, who am black, would love her but she spits in my face." He feels rejected by the place he calls home, your home is part of your identity.

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Wants - Prose

"If anybody tried to kill me, then I would kill them first." Wright wants to prove that he is equal in strength and power to a white man.

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Wants - Play

Marlene and Angie show resistance to the stereotypes - They want to be accepted by society as women and prove that they are equal to men

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Wants - Novel

She wants to be free, back with her family, those she was taken from.

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Wants - Poem

"So now I seek the North- The cold-faced North, For she, they say, Is a kinder mistress, And in her house my children May escape the spell of the South." Hughes wants a better future for his children.

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Joan: "I dressed as a boy... Women weren't / allowed in the library" Joan is discriminated against due to her gender, she is rejected throughout society.

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Has - Play

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"That is how you can get lost, in a sea of names." Atwood uses her characters names and titles to represent stolen identity taken from the regime defining who you are.

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"And I, who am black, would love her [...] but she turns her back on me" Personified his country into two women, he is black and is rejected by his home in the South.

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