Hey guys! Would love to get your input on my intro for these potential half yearly questions!!
I'm trying to make them adaptable as possible so any feedback is welcomed. Cheers
The impact of discovery is generally associated with feelings of excitement or pleasure.
To what extent does this statement reflect the impact of discovery in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your choosing?
The impact of discovery can be met with feelings of pleasure and excitement, but can be met with equally strong feelings of displeasure, uncertainty or indifference. In either experience, the impact of discovery has the ability to be meaningful and transformative, the extent to which is ultimately determined by the willingness of an individual to embrace this process. Both William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Ricky Gervais’ An Idiot Abroad explore the impact of discovery as a result of the physical discovery of new worlds, the way in which individuals embrace their discovery and subsequent inconsequential or meaningful transformation is made.
Discoveries provoke new ideas and enable individuals to speculate about future possibilities.
How is this view presented in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing?
Discoveries have the potential to fertilise new ideas and conceive previously unconsidered possibilities for an individual through their experience of new worlds, both of excitement and pleasure or equally strong feelings of displeasure, uncertainty or indifference. The extent of the impact of discovery is ultimately determined by the willingness of individuals to embrace this process, and their inclined desire for this process to be transformative. The individuals in both The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Ricky Gervais’ An Idiot Abroad display varying extents of new ideas and further speculation as a result of their discoveries, and alternating subversions of previously dominant ideals.