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Anyone doing Cruel Intentions? or My Last Duchess? (1 Viewer)

jimmik

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wonderin if anyone has chosen the movie Cruel Intentions for their powerplay supplementary text? or the poem My Last Duchess? it would be nice to be able to swap notes/discuss issues of powerplay for these.
 

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If u are talking about Browning's "My Last Duchess" then you cant use it anyway because it is a HSC set text for English Extension 1...
 

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Really? Cos we did a little on MLD in year 10... strange.
 

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Year 10 isnt the HSC :p

Exclusions only occur when it is a set HSC text. Even prelims don't count.
 

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i'm thinking about using cruel intentions, but i havent actually started analysing it yet. would you recommend it?
 

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Fido said:
i'm thinking about using cruel intentions, but i havent actually started analysing it yet. would you recommend it?
my teacher recommended it to me. it is very good as it focusses on sexual powerplay like that between cleo and antony, and the manipulation of power to achieve greater levels of power.
 

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Hmm, cruel intentions. I never thought of that one. However, for Antony and Cleo, i chose to focus on the politics part (him being roman leader) instead of the sexual powerplay as such. Hope i'm not doing the wrong thing
 

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Cruel Intentions was on my list of related texts I think... what would you like to discuss?
 

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actually, sarah is wrong - u can use Browning's My Last Duchess for powerplay if u want to. the rule used to be that u couldnt use the prescribed texts from one module as found texts for another, but now u can.
 

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with MLD, u could also consider the power of the duchess as well as that of the duke. obviously the piece emphasises the duke's power, however, u can infer the power of the duchess - ie. her smile behind the curtain: the duke tries everything to have complete dominance over her, yet she still exerts a certain influence over him.
 

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