We want another video with you and Mr Salles when is gonna be? You guys are the reason why everyone is getting grade 9s and I hope i can be one of them, your videos are helping me so much. You two are the real GOATS
Hi Sir, you have been so helpful and your grade 9 analysis for all the books are amazing. I was wondering if your able to create more videos of you reviewing grade 9 responses for A Christmas Carol, since your ones for all the other books have been so helpful. Anyways, thanks again for your amazing videos!
Hi Sir, I have been watching your channel since 2022, I always have been a science guy and was never really into English. I got a kick in the arse when I got a grade 4 and 5 for English in the year 10 mocks, and with all my high grades for the other subjects, I could not have this. I have slowly improved and got a grade 8 last mock as was 3 marks off a 9. Could you please give advice on how to use your revision guides most effectively during this time, I also have this top essay which I somehow wrote. The teacher first gave me 30/30, then scribbled it off and wrote 26/30. I think I should’ve got lower but I won’t complain Please let me know what you think and how I can improve. Your change to the world is unimaginable and I am greatly thankful :). Here is the Essay about 940 words ( I had to type it all out.... ): Throughout Priestley's didactic play, he flaunts the idea that power is abused in a patriarchal society. He emphasizes that power, when given to capitalists, will result in war, and that the correct way to handle power is with socialism and feminism. Firstly, Priestley describes the dysfunctional relationship between Mr Birling and Mrs Birling as one which is governed by the person who is 'Socially Superiour', which in this case is Mrs Birling. This could suggest that all a capitalist ever sees is the narcissistic point of view, and he may have married her purely on the bases of her money. We could assume under a socialist viewpoint, which Priestley beholds that there would be at least an equal division in who gets to make the word around the house, and Priestley later shows that patriarchy will overlook women as Mrs Birling tells her children to 'let him think', even though he does not have the same etiquacy as her. Priestlry also demonstrates the capitalist's abuse of power when he constructs Mr Birling to say that 'we are in for times of prosperity'. Obviously, the audience in 1945, who have just been through 2 world wars and economical unrest, know that this could not be further from the truth. This discredits Mr Brilings' views to the audience, almost making them cringe every time they hear him speak. However, this statement is also revealing about Mr Birling's abuse of power. The audience knows that Sir Stanley Baldwin, who was president 3 times during the 1900s, discredited the 'hard-headed men of business' as he blames them for starting the war and also profiting from it. Thinking about the quote again from Mr Birling's perspective, it is true that many businesses would have profited from things like making clothes for the army. This unmasks Mr Birlings' selfish and dogmatic viewpoints and therefore Prestley emphasises that capitalism is selfish. Priestley also helps take off this mask by using Eric, but also uses him as an emblem of the younger generation who learn their lesson, but do not act upon it, which is symbolic of the same reason that started WW2, as it was thought to be the 'war to end all wars'. When the inspector interrogates Mr Birling for sacking Eva, his excuse is that if she doesn't like it, she could 'go work somewhere else'. Eric immediately responds with 'What if they cannot go somewhere else?'. This deliberate question makes the reader think that there could possibly be a cartel between the local businesses, as Eric would know best about this since he also stole money from 'my office'. The irony that Eric, who abused his power by stealing from his father, is also exposing his own father for illegal activity connotes how ruthless a capitalist family will be together, and that they will never feel 'homelike'. Priestley then shows that even when a capitalist has power, they cannot hold the temptation of showing it off, as this is in Priestley's belief the wrong way of using power. Priestley offers a solution to the audience where he builds an image of socialism to be the logical solution to every problem. When Mr Birling is talking to Gerald, he mentions that he could possibly 'receive a knighthood', and he even uses this against the inspector, almost as a threat. Now the audience would have heard about Priestley from his popular podcast which in the 1900s approximately 40% of the population listened to, and they know that Priestley once was offered a knighthood, but he later rejects it as a form of protest and change in the government, and for the audience to vote Labour. This display of bravery teaches the audience that Priestley's socialist regime is the best way for a society to be run, rather than the powerful abusive patriarchy everyone is under, teaching them moral lessons, just like his father did, as he was a high school teacher. Priestley presents Eric as possibly the most abusive of his powers, since after Eva Smith went to Mrs, Birling's charity, she would rather commit suicide, rather than stay with him, which is a total contrast when he says she 'had never been happier'. This display of narcissistic behaviour shows that even young generation male capitalists who were taught the right way of acting like socialists, will refuse to obey and possibly could be the cause of WW2. Throughout the same time, the audience knows that the suffragette movement, led by middle-class women like Eva Smith was fighting against a patriarchal society to gain their right to vote. They successfully did this in 1928 after lots of protests from devoted women. Maybe Priestley wants us to consider how women present better traits than men do, which accentuates the idea that this is a feminist play, promoting a matriarchy by presenting the tragedy of a male-governed society. Towards the end of the play, the inspector, who is a proxy to Priestley's message, states that 'if men do not learn their lesson, then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish'. This is just before the inspector leaves the Birlings, with free will and open choice to decide if they want to learn the inspector's lesson, and shortly after, a second phone call, representing the second world war, is heard and states the death of a girl, symbolic of them not learning their lesson, and the gradual death of society. In conclusion, Pristley's didactic play is used to discredit the 'hard-headed' businessmen and to show to the capitalist that people are 'not just labour, they are people.'
ill give this a 30 or lower out of 34. Overall the analysis on quotes, context would be exceptionally high. However, you failed to include a range of techniques, if you weave some techniques you will definitely reach a higher overall grade and snatch a 33 or 34/ 34.
The ideas in this essay are brilliant its just the way you structured your essay which was the main drawback. The structure of this essay isn't fluid and some sentences don't make sense when you embed quotes into them. I think it would be best to ask your teacher for ways to improve the essay since they marked it.
Hi! Could you please make another video like this but for Pride and Prejudice & Lord of the Flies. This video seemed very helpful so i imagine if you were to make a video like this but for those two novels instead, it would be extemely beneficial for me and for many other students!
Mr Salles, could you please makes videos on Student Exemplars, they really help me out as I can get an idea on how students structure their essays while making sure to incorporate and put forward their idea.
could you please do something like that for macbeth ( specifically the theme of supernatural ) ,becuase i find it really hard 😭 and exams are in less than a month
Hey mr salles! Watched you video throughout IGCSES and got an A*! Now I'm nearing my AS exams and was wondering if you could do a video based on text analysis [language, form and structure] or reflective commentary. It would be SUPER helpful! Thank you and always supporting your channel, min!! :D
Hey mr salles, I don’t think this is related to the video but after watching numerous videos of yours I see that in English literature there’s a lot of focus on morality, patriarchy and social division and I’m curious to understand why? Out of all the books I am studying morality seems to be an overarching theme and it makes me wonder as to why writers put such hidden meanings in their books. As an avid book reader, ( who usually reads sci-fi and dystopian books ) I’ve never read a book thinking ‘ooh.. the hunger games is most definitely demonstrates patriarchy..’ ( I’m not sure if it actually is but you get the idea ) I much prefer to enjoy the adventure than thinking about the meaning. Sorry I think revisions making me a bit loopy, but just something that was on my mind! Do writers always have a purpose when writing, or has modern writing become more of an entertainment factor than a political message?
Well, this is the stuff of literary critical theory. But a simplified answer is that all texts are influenced by the societies in which they were written. In other words, no matter how far writers deal with this consciously, or unconsciously, it is ever present in the way they think and react to the society around them. Sci-if books are ALWAYS a comment on that society - they take current ideas and stretch them to imagine the future.
Oh, that’s quite interesting and something I’ll definitely be keeping in mind when I next read a book. This also makes me wonder whether this is something I’d be interested in studying at a-level by choosing English literature or language as a subject 🤔 Thanks a lot for taking the time out to reply and thanks ever so much for your amazing content- you’ve really helped spark my interest for English!
Mr Salles could you please give me feedback on this - Eric's relationship with his parents slowly disintegrates over the play and that his recognising this abuse of power over him (they quote never even tried ) could be Priestley's hint that his guardians were limiting his compunction?
hi sir just had a few quesitons on macbeth, will you be completing the ultimate macbeth guide to finish all the acts and is it possible to get a 7 by memorising that and practicing exam Qs
hi! I was wondering if you had any content geared towards the ocr exam board because I struggle to find exemplar grade 9 essays/revision content for this exam board
hi, when writing the essay would you say to purely stick with the idea the question proposes, (e.g. eric is a character who deserves pity) or could you completely argue against the point. my exam board is ccea so we get advanced information, i know a question will be about eric, but when i get in there and i get the question i don’t want to try to fully argue a point i don’t agree with for the whole essay. do you think it would lower my marks if i argued against the question?
hello sir, i have a feeling the macbeth question will be related to fate or masulinity as a theme i genuinely think one of them is going to come up but im also just hoping. could you post some analysis to go about each theme
@@artemiscarnegie I actually did because mr salles had good ideas about how the martial society forces men to become filled with bloodlust and I also linked that to kingship as well since I had studied it. I had to be careful and talk about masculinity of course. How did yours go?
Hi sir please could you do a video like this but on Romeo and Juliet and the top ten quotes that could be used in any question? Could you also make predictions for the exams?
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We want another video with you and Mr Salles when is gonna be? You guys are the reason why everyone is getting grade 9s and I hope i can be one of them, your videos are helping me so much. You two are the real GOATS
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Hi Sir, you have been so helpful and your grade 9 analysis for all the books are amazing. I was wondering if your able to create more videos of you reviewing grade 9 responses for A Christmas Carol, since your ones for all the other books have been so helpful. Anyways, thanks again for your amazing videos!
Good idea
Thank you very much for the analysis! Really helpful and insightful!
Sir can you do 10 Quotes for Mr billing and Mrs Birling as I need them ASAP please
Sir, will you be doing predictions for 2023? If so may I know when they will released?
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Yh I’ve been waiting for time
Hi Sir,
I have been watching your channel since 2022, I always have been a
science guy and was never really into English. I got a kick in the
arse when I got a grade 4 and 5 for English in the year 10 mocks, and
with all my high grades for the other subjects, I could not have this.
I have slowly improved and got a grade 8 last mock as was 3 marks off
a 9. Could you please give advice on how to use your revision guides
most effectively during this time, I also have this top essay which I
somehow wrote. The teacher first gave me 30/30, then scribbled it off
and wrote 26/30. I think I should’ve got lower but I won’t complain Please let me know what you think and how I can
improve.
Your change to the world is unimaginable and I am greatly thankful :).
Here is the Essay about 940 words ( I had to type it all out.... ):
Throughout Priestley's didactic play, he flaunts the idea that power
is abused in a patriarchal society. He emphasizes that power, when
given to capitalists, will result in war, and that the correct way to
handle power is with socialism and feminism.
Firstly, Priestley describes the dysfunctional relationship between Mr
Birling and Mrs Birling as one which is governed by the person who is
'Socially Superiour', which in this case is Mrs Birling. This could
suggest that all a capitalist ever sees is the narcissistic point of
view, and he may have married her purely on the bases of her money. We
could assume under a socialist viewpoint, which Priestley beholds that
there would be at least an equal division in who gets to make the word
around the house, and Priestley later shows that patriarchy will
overlook women as Mrs Birling tells her children to 'let him think',
even though he does not have the same etiquacy as her.
Priestlry also demonstrates the capitalist's abuse of power when he
constructs Mr Birling to say that 'we are in for times of prosperity'.
Obviously, the audience in 1945, who have just been through 2 world
wars and economical unrest, know that this could not be further from
the truth. This discredits Mr Brilings' views to the audience, almost
making them cringe every time they hear him speak. However, this
statement is also revealing about Mr Birling's abuse of power. The
audience knows that Sir Stanley Baldwin, who was president 3 times
during the 1900s, discredited the 'hard-headed men of business' as he
blames them for starting the war and also profiting from it. Thinking
about the quote again from Mr Birling's perspective, it is true that
many businesses would have profited from things like making clothes
for the army. This unmasks Mr Birlings' selfish and dogmatic
viewpoints and therefore Prestley emphasises that capitalism is
selfish.
Priestley also helps take off this mask by using Eric, but also uses
him as an emblem of the younger generation who learn their lesson, but
do not act upon it, which is symbolic of the same reason that started
WW2, as it was thought to be the 'war to end all wars'. When the
inspector interrogates Mr Birling for sacking Eva, his excuse is that
if she doesn't like it, she could 'go work somewhere else'. Eric
immediately responds with 'What if they cannot go somewhere else?'.
This deliberate question makes the reader think that there could
possibly be a cartel between the local businesses, as Eric would know
best about this since he also stole money from 'my office'. The irony
that Eric, who abused his power by stealing from his father, is also
exposing his own father for illegal activity connotes how ruthless a
capitalist family will be together, and that they will never feel
'homelike'. Priestley then shows that even when a capitalist has
power, they cannot hold the temptation of showing it off, as this is
in Priestley's belief the wrong way of using power. Priestley offers a
solution to the audience where he builds an image of socialism to be
the logical solution to every problem. When Mr Birling is talking to
Gerald, he mentions that he could possibly 'receive a knighthood', and
he even uses this against the inspector, almost as a threat. Now the
audience would have heard about Priestley from his popular podcast
which in the 1900s approximately 40% of the population listened to,
and they know that Priestley once was offered a knighthood, but he
later rejects it as a form of protest and change in the government,
and for the audience to vote Labour. This display of bravery teaches
the audience that Priestley's socialist regime is the best way for a
society to be run, rather than the powerful abusive patriarchy
everyone is under, teaching them moral lessons, just like his father
did, as he was a high school teacher.
Priestley presents Eric as possibly the most abusive of his powers,
since after Eva Smith went to Mrs, Birling's charity, she would rather
commit suicide, rather than stay with him, which is a total contrast
when he says she 'had never been happier'. This display of
narcissistic behaviour shows that even young generation male
capitalists who were taught the right way of acting like socialists,
will refuse to obey and possibly could be the cause of WW2. Throughout
the same time, the audience knows that the suffragette movement, led
by middle-class women like Eva Smith was fighting against a
patriarchal society to gain their right to vote. They successfully did
this in 1928 after lots of protests from devoted women. Maybe
Priestley wants us to consider how women present better traits than
men do, which accentuates the idea that this is a feminist play,
promoting a matriarchy by presenting the tragedy of a male-governed
society.
Towards the end of the play, the inspector, who is a proxy to
Priestley's message, states that 'if men do not learn their lesson,
then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish'. This is just
before the inspector leaves the Birlings, with free will and open
choice to decide if they want to learn the inspector's lesson, and
shortly after, a second phone call, representing the second world war,
is heard and states the death of a girl, symbolic of them not learning
their lesson, and the gradual death of society.
In conclusion, Pristley's didactic play is used to discredit the
'hard-headed' businessmen and to show to the capitalist that people
are 'not just labour, they are people.'
ill give this a 30 or lower out of 34. Overall the analysis on quotes, context would be exceptionally high. However, you failed to include a range of techniques, if you weave some techniques you will definitely reach a higher overall grade and snatch a 33 or 34/ 34.
The ideas in this essay are brilliant its just the way you structured your essay which was the main drawback. The structure of this essay isn't fluid and some sentences don't make sense when you embed quotes into them. I think it would be best to ask your teacher for ways to improve the essay since they marked it.
Hi! Could you please make another video like this but for Pride and Prejudice & Lord of the Flies. This video seemed very helpful so i imagine if you were to make a video like this but for those two novels instead, it would be extemely beneficial for me and for many other students!
hi! your channel really helped me last year and i’m convinced i got 9s in lit and lang because of it. do you think you’ll ever post a level content?
I will, but it won’t have enough viewers, so I am reluctant
Mr Salles, could you please makes videos on Student Exemplars, they really help me out as I can get an idea on how students structure their essays while making sure to incorporate and put forward their idea.
Amazing video!! Thank you so much, could you please do a video like this for Mr Birling? Thank you so much
Hi could you please do top ten quotes for merchant of venice as hardly anyone has information of the play not even pmt!!
could you please do something like that for macbeth ( specifically the theme of supernatural ) ,becuase i find it really hard 😭 and exams are in less than a month
he has already made one just search up supernatural or smthn
Hey mr salles! Watched you video throughout IGCSES and got an A*! Now I'm nearing my AS exams and was wondering if you could do a video based on text analysis [language, form and structure] or reflective commentary. It would be SUPER helpful! Thank you and always supporting your channel, min!! :D
I don’t teach the AS stuff, sorry
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish Oh, np! Thank you so much for replying!
Hi, have u got predictions on what the question will be for Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde and History boys?
Hey mr salles, I don’t think this is related to the video but after watching numerous videos of yours I see that in English literature there’s a lot of focus on morality, patriarchy and social division and I’m curious to understand why? Out of all the books I am studying morality seems to be an overarching theme and it makes me wonder as to why writers put such hidden meanings in their books. As an avid book reader, ( who usually reads sci-fi and dystopian books ) I’ve never read a book thinking ‘ooh.. the hunger games is most definitely demonstrates patriarchy..’ ( I’m not sure if it actually is but you get the idea ) I much prefer to enjoy the adventure than thinking about the meaning. Sorry I think revisions making me a bit loopy, but just something that was on my mind! Do writers always have a purpose when writing, or has modern writing become more of an entertainment factor than a political message?
Well, this is the stuff of literary critical theory. But a simplified answer is that all texts are influenced by the societies in which they were written. In other words, no matter how far writers deal with this consciously, or unconsciously, it is ever present in the way they think and react to the society around them. Sci-if books are ALWAYS a comment on that society - they take current ideas and stretch them to imagine the future.
Oh, that’s quite interesting and something I’ll definitely be keeping in mind when I next read a book. This also makes me wonder whether this is something I’d be interested in studying at a-level by choosing English literature or language as a subject 🤔 Thanks a lot for taking the time out to reply and thanks ever so much for your amazing content- you’ve really helped spark my interest for English!
@@nobodyknows7340 That’s one of my main reasons for starting the channel - I am delighted you are enjoying English
Mr Salles could you please give me feedback on this - Eric's relationship with his parents slowly disintegrates over the play and that his recognising this abuse of power over him (they quote never even tried ) could be Priestley's hint that his guardians were limiting his compunction?
Could you make predictions for AIC and Macbeth for this years exam? Thank you in advance
hi sir just had a few quesitons on macbeth,
will you be completing the ultimate macbeth guide to finish all the acts and is it possible to get a 7 by memorising that and practicing exam Qs
hi! I was wondering if you had any content geared towards the ocr exam board because I struggle to find exemplar grade 9 essays/revision content for this exam board
Have you checked any examiner’s reports? I took iMedia which was OCR and the examiners reports had exemplar essays
hi, when writing the essay would you say to purely stick with the idea the question proposes, (e.g. eric is a character who deserves pity) or could you completely argue against the point. my exam board is ccea so we get advanced information, i know a question will be about eric, but when i get in there and i get the question i don’t want to try to fully argue a point i don’t agree with for the whole essay. do you think it would lower my marks if i argued against the question?
do you think it is worth writing an introduction
Can you please do a walkthrough on how to do edexcel english language paper 1 and paper 2
hello sir, i have a feeling the macbeth question will be related to fate or masulinity as a theme i genuinely think one of them is going to come up but im also just hoping. could you post some analysis to go about each theme
Which exam board do u do
@@aurelsalihu aqa
Well done for getting masculinity right!
@@JohnJohnson-zt3bv aha thanks, did you enjoy writing the question?
@@artemiscarnegie I actually did because mr salles had good ideas about how the martial society forces men to become filled with bloodlust and I also linked that to kingship as well since I had studied it. I had to be careful and talk about masculinity of course. How did yours go?
Hi sir, please do prediction for 2023🙏
Hi sir please could you do a video like this but on Romeo and Juliet and the top ten quotes that could be used in any question? Could you also make predictions for the exams?
Sir is it just me but don't you think Dicken's language is very hard to understand?
Yes, if you don’t read old literature, you aren’t used to it
Are you doing predictions this year?
Hi sir, just a quick question. Will you be marking papers this year?
No way. The pay is terrible
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish lol fair enough
thank you
Hi Sir, your videos are so helpful, would you be able to take a look at one of my essays