Love Poetry through the Ages: An Anthology

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Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby and Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club as the prose texts for comparison. The Rotters' Club appears on the AS set text list only so,

Love and loss: Gatsby loses Daisy to Tom twice; George loses Myrtle to Tom and then they both lose Myrtle upon her death.The collection of unseen prose extracts can be used to support the learning objective of week 7 in our autumn term teaching plan (Co-teaching programme of study) - approaching unseen extracts essay writing skills. Exemplar student response - band 5 - The Awakening and AQA Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: post-1900 First love: adolescent crushes e.g. Claire has a crush on Benjamin, Doug has a crush on Claire; Cicely as the love of Benjamin's life (told from the point of view of Benjamin in his lengthy, naïve rant on first love in the closing chapter).

Love through the generations: the confusion of the adolescents as they embark on their first forays into sex and romance contrasted with their parents' extramarital affairs.Extramarital affairs: Tom's hypocrisy that he has a history of extramarital affairs, including a current affair with Myrtle, and yet is outraged at the thought of Daisy having an affair with Gatsby; George's discovery of Myrtle's infidelity leads to the final tragedy of the novel. Class issues: Gatsby's dream of loving Daisy is doomed because of the difference in their relative social statuses; Gatsby resorts to crime to create a lifestyle that will impress Daisy but her discovery of this criminal activity ironically reminds her of his lower class status; Tom's treatment of Myrtle when he breaks her nose shows contempt for lower class women; Tom and George are contrasted, the former shown as rich but immoral, the latter poor but morally upright and it is Tom who Myrtle desires. Familial love: the effect of the parents' extramarital affairs on their children e.g. Claire's preoccupation with her sister Miriam's disappearance which affects her behaviour towards Doug; Benjamin's care for his sister Lois during her hospitalisation, following the pub bombing. The example student responses with marking commentary act as models for the students and help you to assess their work. AS resources Paper 1, Section A