Alienation and isolation
What Alienation and isolation means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Hodge's profound dislocation from his Wessex home, emphasised by unfamiliar Afrikaans vocabulary such as 'kopje' and 'veldt' and his burial in an alien South African landscape.
Themes of displacement and the creation of diasporic communities in a hostile urban environment, to be compared with a core text.
The profound separation of the early twentieth-century urban psyche, captured in Eliot's dramatic monologue.
Topics that use Alienation and isolation
- 5d. Component 02 – Comparative and contextual study core and suggested set texts - Suggested set texts for Comparative and contextual study: The Immigrant Experience (OCR A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – The Great Modern Poets, editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Victorian Period – The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, editor Christopher Ricks (OUP, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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