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English Essay: Topic 2
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Thesis statement:
Power and patriarchal structures are challenged and explored in "Nothern Lights" by Philip Pullman through the characters of Lyra and Mrs Cutler.
Lyra and Mrs Cutler both conform and contradict the power and patriarchal structures in Northern lights by Phillip Pullman.
mrs cutler
described as a beautiful, elegant, gentle presence, comes across as classy and well put togeather, pg. 66
Sweet and calm with lyra, even saves her from being seperated from her daeomon. motherly
Sets up obligation board which perforoms horrofoc experiments on children, which is a powerful man role and conrtadics the motherly nature
different from pther women, pg. 66
People and children fear her, especially at the testing centre, usually a male installs fear
Hungrey for power, pg. 316
daemon is a monkey, mnkeys are quite viscious, agrresive, greedy, curious, clever
Had a baby out of wedlock, at the end she chose power over love, didnt value marriage
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Lyra
Northern lights is situated in a very male dominanted enviroment, example, only men allowed in the retirement room in Jordan college. At jordan college the men are very intelligent and academically focussed
Lyra ges into this room, mischievious and deceitful
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Kyra iewed other women as borning, find quote where she sys that mrs cutler is not like any ther women (maybe Nuns?) pg. 64 "uninteresting"
Lyra goes agaisnt the stereotype tht women need to be saed, she npt only saves herself, but others
Lyra is always testing boundires (eg exploring Jordan althogh told not to) which is not tyical of female roles
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lyra conformed with her behaviour with mrs cutler, enjoying luxury things, shoping and gretting everyone at the cocktail party
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