1. “she was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples
Romeo and Juliet
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
An Inspector Calls
AQA Conflict poetry (be aware not all poems are included here)
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny” Prologue
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.” Story of the door
“The way of some of these crank right now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else” Birling on society / responsibility
Ozymandias “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies” “sneer of cold command” “king of kings” “colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
“My child is yet a stranger in the world / Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride” LC Act 1
Utterson: ‘If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek’
Search for Mr Hyde
“but these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people” Shelia on society/ responsibility / generations
London “I wander through each chartered street”
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!.” J Act 1
Jekyll: ‘the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde’ Dr J was quite at ease
‘the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.’ Responsibility / guilt/ religion
My Last Duchess“ half-flush that dies along her throat” “My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name” “I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” R Act 2
‘with ape-like fury… trampling his victim under foot’
The Carew Murder Case (maid’s account)
“we all started like that – so confident, so pleased with ourselves until he began asking us questions” Shelia on the Inspector
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“valley of death” “theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die” “jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell” “someone had blunder’d” “Noble six hundred”
“Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain.” T Act 3
Clerk: Hyde and Jekyll’s handwriting: ‘the two hands are in many points identical’ Incident of the Letter
“I think you did something terribly wrong – and that you are going to spend your life regretting it” Inspector
Exposure “Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” “But nothing happens”
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
“we turn back to our dying” “
“A plague on both your houses”
M Act 3
Lanyon: ‘I have had a shock and I shall never recover’
Remarkable incident of Dr Lanyon
“she was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples
that were simply absurd in a girl in her position’ Mrs Birling defends herself”
Storm on the Island
“We are prepared”
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
“Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch […] get thee to church o' Thursday,. Or never after look me in the face. LC Act 3
Jekyll’s expression of ‘abject terror and despair’ Incident at the window
‘I’m not very clear about it, but afterwards she told me she didn’t want me to go in but that – well, I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row’ Eric explanation
Bayonet Charge
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“ “he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm” “patriotic tear” “a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle” “king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
“I would the fool were married to her grave” Lady C Act3
Pathetic fallacy: ‘the wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face’
Hyde: ‘dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness’
The Last Night
‘but each of you helped to kill her. Remember that’ Inspector
Remains
“On another occasion” “probably armed, possibly not”
“rips through his life” “tosses his guts back into his body” “his bloody life in my bloody hands”
“I’ll to be friar to know his remedy.
“If all else fail, myself hath power to die” J Act 3
Lanyon: ‘his face became suddenly black, and the features seemed to melt and alter’
Dr Lanyon’s Narrative
‘I suppose we’re all nice people now…’ Shelia is sarcastic / critical
Poppies
“tucks, darts, pleats” “the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest” “released a song bird from its cage”
“leaned against it like a wishbone” “hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
“See what a scourge is laid upon your hate / That heaven finds means to kill our joys with love!” Prince Act 5
Jekyll: ‘I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life’ –‘
Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case
‘the famous younger generation who know it all’ Birling’s confidence
War Photographer “The only light is red and softly glows” “Home again / To ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel”