Gothic context presentation and accompanying extract for Component 2 of OCR exam - Gothic option

This brief PowerPoint and accompanying extract, is designed to meet the requirements of Component 2 of the OCR A-level: Comparative and Contextual Study – specifically the Gothic option. It is part of a set of ten covering a broad range of themes. For each there are three key objectives:

• To give students some broader understanding of the idea of the Gothic;
• To introduce them to other key Gothic texts.
• Finally, the extracts that link to each of the PowerPoints enabled them to practise the unseen text element of this paper, but with a specific AO3 element. In other words, the ideas they had thought about in the PowerPoint would be exemplified by the extract, so the presentation on Byronic heroes is linked to an extract from Jane Eyre where Rochester is introduced.

The PowerPoints are by no means exhaustive. I used them as part of a weekly session exploring a different aspect of Gothic -15/20 minutes on the presentation, the remainder of the lesson was spent looking at the extract.
The topics/theme covered is:

• Gothic and madness (extract = Yellow Wallpaper)