1. Conclusions
Restate the main idea of your essay, or your main ‘finding’
Summarise the three sub points of your essay.
Establish your own opinion on the topic.
Evaluate the writer’s overall success.

2. Exam Preparation: Paper 1 and Paper 2
Paper 1 Drama: Tragedy 2hr 15 mins
Othello 35 marks
Street Car Named Desire 25 marks
Paper 2 Prose: Women and Society 1 hour
A thousand splendid suns 40 marks
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Paper 3 Poetry: 60 marks 2hr 15 mins

4. WWW:
EBI:
INT:
/21
/14

5. WWW:
EBI:
INT:
/25

6. Did I reference contextual information?
AO1
Did I have an argument/opinion?
Did I explain the validity of my argument?
Did I quote?
Did I identify features of Language, form + structure?
Did I reference Tragic concepts?
Did I use literary terminology?
AO2
Did I discuss the writer’s intentions?
Did I offer multiple intentions/meanings?
Did I evaluate(strengths and weaknesses) the writer’s work?
AO3
Did I reference contextual information?
Did I explain the link between text and context?
Score /35
/25
AO4
Did I link to other relatable texts? (women + Tragedy).
Did I make any links to other Shakespearian texts?
Did I make clear comparisons?
AO5
Did I reference/link to the tragedy anthology?
Did I use a critical reference?
Did I ‘springboard’ off the critical reference?

7. A Streetcar Named Desire: Summary
Scenes 1 and 2
The play opens in a shabby district of New Orleans where Stanley Kowalski lives with his wife Stella. After they leave for the bowling alley, where Stanley is to play with his friend Mitch, a well−dressed woman arrives carrying a suitcase. This is Blanche DuBois, Stella's sister. Hardly believing that this is Stella's home, Blanche
ungraciously accepts the invitation of the landlady, Eunice, to wait inside. She appears nervous and highly strung and searches out a supply of alcohol, supposedly to calm her nerves. When Stella returns they greet each other fondly, but there is a hint of unease between them.
On his return home, Stanley meets Blanche and they talk amicably, but as the conversation develops and as details of Blanche's past come out—particularly her marriage to a husband who is now dead, and the loss of Belle Reve, the family's property—we see Stanley beginning to distrust her. Blanche makes herself very much at home, taking long and frequent baths and drinking Stanley's alcohol, even whilst making disparaging comments about Stanley and Stella's standard of living.
Scene 3
The tension in the house continues in the next scene when the sisters return after an evening out to the house where Stanley is holding a poker party. Resenting the interest that Mitch, one of his friends, shows in Blanche, the now drunken Stanley shows his jealousy of Blanche and becomes violent with Stella, who we now know is pregnant. After retreating briefly upstairs to the Hubbells' apartment, Stella returns to Stanley and they go off to bed together.

8. Scene 4
Despite this brutality and Blanche's attempts to persuade her to leave him, Stella insists that she loves Stanley and will not leave him. Overhearing Blanche's hostile comments about him, Stanley determines to follow his suspicions about her and to find out more about her recent past. He discovers that she left Laurel, her home
town, because of rumours about her promiscuity and her relationship with a young student.
Scene 5
When Stanley hints to Blanche about what he knows, she is clearly terrified that it will all come out and tries to present a glossed−over version to Stella, focusing on her fear of growing old alone and hinting at a possible future with Mitch. After Stella's departure, Blanche flirts with a young man who arrives to collect newspaper subscriptions.
Scene 6
Blanche and Mitch's date in the next scene is not a success, but when they return home they speak more openly and Blanche tells Mitch of her dead husband who, we gather, was homosexual, and shot himself when she discovered him in bed with another man. Mitch comforts her and they discuss marriage.

9. Scenes 7 and 8
Shortly afterwards there is a birthday dinner for Blanche, but Mitch, having been told by Stanley about Blanche's past, does not show up. The meal is awkwardly silent and, to make it worse, Stanley presents Blanche with a bus ticket back home as a supposed birthday gift. Stella complains at his cruelty, but then goes into labour. Stanley takes her to the hospital.
Scene 9
Mitch then visits Blanche, who is alone in the apartment. In a drunken state he tells her that he knows about her past and, when she tries to explain, dismisses her explanation as lies. He tries to force her to have sex but she resists and threatens to call for help. Left alone again, she drinks more alcohol and loses herself in delusions of a rich millionaire who will look after her

10. Scene 10
Stanley returns from the hospital to find Blanche dressed up in a ball gown and tiara, trying to pack her suitcase. He mocks her, tells her what he thinks of her, and allows his anger to be transformed into sexual violence as he carries her off to bed to rape her.
Scene 11
A scene change denotes the passing of time at this point and we next see Stella, returned from the hospital, unwilling to believe her sister's story and in agreement with Stanley that Blanche should be certified as insane. Blanche packs her things, believing that she is to leave with a rich admirer. While she is taking another bath and Stanley and his friends are again playing poker, a doctor arrives with a nurse from a mental hospital. Realizing what is about to happen, Blanche tries to escape, but is calmed by the gentle doctor. She leaves on his arm, stating that she has always placed her trust in the kindness of strangers. Stanley's friends are horrified and Stella is almost hysterical with tears, but Stanley remains calm and soothes his wife into acquiescence. Life, it is suggested, will continue.

11. Stanley
Eunice
Blanche
Mitch
Stella

12. Napoleonic Code
Tennessee Williams
American Civil War
World War Two
The French Quarter
The South
American Dream

13. Stanley
Meat
Light
Music
Belle Reve
Streetcars

14. Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote

15. Critics
Reading interpretation
Unique Context
Literary links
Fun Fact
Reception
Adaptation
Leitmotif
A* EXTRAS
Plastic Theatre

16. Revision Topics – Have I missed any?
Insanity
Fate
Conflict
Desire
Death
Tradition – Old South vs New South
Appearance vs Reality
Gender Roles
Control
Violence
Femininity/Masculinity
Family
Love and relationships
Explore Williams’ presentation of…
Explore Williams’ use of…

17. Explore Williams’ presentation of…
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

18. Explore Williams’ presentation of… Fantasy and Reality
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
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Context
Anthology quotes

19. Explore Williams’ presentation of… Tradition
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
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Context
Anthology quotes

20. Explore Williams’ presentation of… Masculinity
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
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Context
Anthology quotes

21. Explore Williams’ use of… Setting
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

22. Othello
Emilia
Iago
Desdemona
Roderigo
Cassio

23. Shakespeare + His plays
Venice and Cyprus
James I vs Elizabeth I
The Moors
Tragic Conventions
Women’s Roles
Shakespeare + His plays

24. Racial/Animal Imagery
Handkerchief
Racial/Animal Imagery
Music/Songs
Magic
Eyes/Sight
Bed/Sleep

25. Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote
Key Moment + Quote

26. Othello
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am
an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
If she be false, O! then heaven mocks itself
Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs
O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites!
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on
When devils so their blackest sins put on they do so at first with heavenly shows
Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch?
Oh damned Iago. Oh inhuman dog
O! I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial
do it not with poison: strangle her in her bed
I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear
I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!
You rise to play and go to bed to work
They are all but stomachs and we all but food; they eat us hungry, and when they are full, they belch us
I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss
And nothing can, or shall, content my soul Till I am evened with him, wife for wife
The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so

27. Anthology: Best quotes from Article 1 and 2
“Is the tragic motor human error or capricious fate?” “Shakespeare’s tragedies provoke the questions about the cause of the pain and loss.” “Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering.” “In the tragic theatre suffering and death are perceived as matter for grief and fear, after which it seems that grief and fear become in their turn a matter for enjoyment.”

28. Critics
Reading interpretation
Unique Context
Literary links
Fun Fact
Reception
Adaptation
A* EXTRAS

29. Revision Topics – Have I missed any?
Disturbing aspect of human nature
Betrayal
Contrast between Venice and Cyprus
Jealousy
Good vs Evil
Appearance vs reality
Tragic Flaw
Race
Identity
Iago the villain
Desdemona the victim
Othello the tragic hero
Manipulation
Power and Control
Conflict between Men and Women
Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of…
Explore Shakespeare’s use of…

30. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of…
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

31. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of… Disturbing Aspect of Human Nature
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

32. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of… Betrayal
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

33. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of… Chaos vs Civilisation
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

34. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of… Jealousy
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

35. Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of… Good vs Evil
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes

36. Explore Shakespeare’s use of… Dramatic Irony
Arguments
Key Moments/Quotes
Tragic Concepts
AO2
Context
Anthology quotes