English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - Values Approach to Essays (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)

This lesson explores the values approach to essays, focusing on how texts reflect, engage with, or challenge societal values. It discusses the importance of context in literature, using Romanticism and Coleridge's work as examples. The lesson also examines subversion and containment in Shakespeare's Hamlet and how Arthur Miller's The Crucible challenges mainstream values, drawing parallels to McCarthyism.

What is the relationship between subversion and containment in literature?

How can literature challenge mainstream values?

Discuss the impact of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' on societal values during the 1950s.

What lessons can be learned from the analysis of texts that reflect or challenge societal values?