Wider Reading: Industry & Empire
A selection of quotes from prose, poetry and drama to be used in the 'Contextual Linking' section of the exam paper, should the theme be industry and empire.
- Created by: rosiefaulkner
- Created on: 09-09-14 18:48
View mindmap
- Wider Reading: Industry & Empire
- Drama
- A Woman of No Importance
- (Lady Caroline to Hester) "Do you have any country? What we should call country?"
- (Lady Caroline to Hester) "In my young days, Miss Worseley, one never met anyone in society who worked for their living."
- Arcadia
- (Lady Croom complaining about the noise) "...The ceaseless, dull, overbearing monotony of the [steam engine]"
- The Pillars of Society
- (Mrs Rummel on trains) "We only by a hairs breadth escaped the project of having a railway here."
- A Woman of No Importance
- Poetry
- The Englishman
- "there's a flag that waves over every sea."
- Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- 'We build up the world's great cities... we fashion an empire's glory.'
- The White Man's Burden
- 'the savage wars of peace'
- 'your new caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child.'
- 'to seek another's profit,/ and work another's gain.'
- The Cry of the Children
- 'all day we drag our burden tiring, through the coal-dark underground.'
- The Englishman
- Prose
- Hard Times
- 'painted face of a savage.'
- 'it was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed.'
- Heart of Darkness
- 'weaning ignorant millions from their horrid ways.'
- 'the dreams of men, the seed of the commonwealth, the germs of Empire.
- English Passengers
- 'He meant the aborigines to be begun afresh and reborn as civilised, Christian beings.'
- Description of aborigines as 'creatures' with 'strange looking faces'.
- Middle March
- "Somebody told you the railroad was a bad thing. That was a lie. It do a bit of harm here and there... but the railway is a good thing."
- Hard Times
- Drama
Comments
No comments have yet been made