Isolation and alienation
What Isolation and alienation means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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The profound isolation of the afterlife and the speaker's alienation in their former domestic space, where they are entirely alienated.
The isolating experience of severe illness, which the speaker endures while protecting others from the reality of their condition.
A Gothic convention the novel uses, alongside the sublime landscape and the uncanny, which students must analyse.
A profound sense of detachment, shown by a speaker who has never claimed a specific place or person as his own.
The state of the isolated speaker, contrasted with the owner of the woods who is safely in the village.
Topics that use Isolation and alienation
- 5d. Component 02 – Comparative and contextual study core and suggested set texts - Suggested set texts for Comparative and contextual study: The Gothic (OCR A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section A: Post-2000 Poetry – Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 (Pearson Edexcel 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 – Post-1900 – The Movement – Philip Larkin: The Less Deceived (Faber, 2011) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Victorian Period – Christina Rossetti Selected Poems, editor Dinah Roe (Penguin, 2008) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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