lq: can i improve my analytical style, incorporating context and wider reading comparison?

Byron’s Don Juan – analysis, context and connections

LQ: Can I improve my analytical style, incorporating context and wider reading

comparison?

Literary Terms: rhythm, Byronic rhyme, pathos, bathos, profound, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, voice, onomatopoeia,

anaphora, feminism, Marxism, parody, satirical, prelapsarian

LQ: Can I improve my analytical style, incorporating context and wider reading comparison?

Good progress: Developed analysis of Don Juan extract using terminology and more than one quotation and a thematic link to wider reading C

Excellent progress: Detailed analysis of Don Juan extract using advanced terminology, social context and more than one quotation to build an argument and a thematic and cogent link to wider reading

Outstanding progress: Detailed and perceptive analysis of Don Juan extract using advanced terminology, sophisticated language, social context and more than one quotation to build an argument and a thematic and cogent link to wider reading


anaphora, feminism, Marxism, parody, satirical, prelapsarian

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anaphora, feminism, Marxism, parody, satirical

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L = Language, structure (EXT: Form)W = Wider reading Poetry links (EXT: other genre links)S = Social contextual influence (EXT: other interpretations)



Byron presents a comic vision of love and marriage throughout Don Juan. He ends Canto 1 with Don Alfonso apologising to his wife for accusing her of infidelity and then discovering Juan hidden in his wife’s bedroom.

“He stood like Adam lingering near his garden, With useless penitence perplex’d and haunted”

Byron uses prelapsarian language and alliteration to emphasise Don Alfonso’s embarrassment and guilt at his doubting of his wife. The dramatic irony caused by the reader’s knowledge that Don Juan is in the room while he apologises is comic. The comic tone is continued with the bathos of the last line of the stanza “When, lo! He stumbles o’er a pair of shoes”. The frequent use of bathos in the last lines of stanzas creates a flippant and nonchalant narrative tone, mocking the ostensibly serious subject matter: marriage, lust and infidelity. The choice of form is ideal for the satirical message Byron seeks to present. The eight line stanzas allow for a crescendo to build and then be mocked with a comic last rhyming couplet. This style seeks to satirise the aristocracy of the time, his own class and audience, specifically mocking their hypocritical gossip, which he had to endure throughout his fame in London, and is exemplified in the final four lines of Canto 1:

“The pleasant scandal which arose next day, The nine days' wonder which was brought to light, And how Alfonso sued for a divorce Were in the English newspapers of course”.

Key ingredients:

Point to address the question

More than one quotation

Coherent argument

Sophisticated vocabulary

Techical terms,

Form

Social context

Criitical interpretations?

How is love presented in Don Juan?

FIRST paragraphAnalyse Don Juan building an argument

Literary Terms: rhyming couplet, ottava rima, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, voice,

personal pronoun, anaphora, feminism, Marxism,

Extension task: Can you incorporate some of the hidden sophisticated vocabulary? (Ask Mr H how to find the hidden words!)

Good progress: Developed analysis of Don Juan extract using terminology and more than

one quotation and a thematic link to wider reading

Excellent progress: Detailed analysis of Don Juan extract using advanced terminology, social context and more than one quotation to build an

argument and a thematic and cogent link to wider reading

Outstanding progress: Detailed and perceptive analysis of Don Juan extract using

advanced terminology, sophisticated language, social context and more than one

quotation to build an argument and a thematic and cogent link to wider reading

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PEER IMPROVERotate the

paragraphs and improve the paragraph that you have been handed!











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Peer Assess on board…



Extension task: Can you suggest improvements?








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How is love presented in Don Juan?

SECOND paragraph

Link to wider reading (only one quotation (or two) needed)

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Peer Assess on board…




















SELF-ASSESS YOUR

PROGRESSWhat have you

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HOMEWORK:How is love presented in Don Juan and at least three other texts of your choice?



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