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Billy Elliot, Pygmalion & Curious Incident Night Time

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Grade: HSC
Subject: English Advanced
Resource type: Notes
Written by: N/A
Year uploaded: 2021
Page length: 4
 

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Resource Description

COMMON MODULE: BILLY ELLIOT, BY STEPHEN DALDRY

Texts and human experiences

Main points of the rubric:

  • anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. Identity, adversity and dreams

Quotes:

Quote  Technique  Link to rubric Explanation 
  • “You’re a ballet dancer, then let’s be havin’ it” ~ tony
 Characterisation 

Tone 

 Inconsistency 

Identity 

 Tony’s unwillingness to his brother’s interest, through bullying, shows tony’s aggressive disposition towards billy’s passion
  • Boots and ballet shoes sitting beside each other
 Juxtaposition  Human experience

Adversity 

Identity

 

 The contrast between the two very different shoes shows the differences in masculinity and feminity and how billy must take a side
  • Tearing at brick walls in the cubicle scene 
 Metaphor 

Symbolism 

 Human experience

Identity 

 This shows the breaking down of metaphorical barriers, symbolised by the brick walls, experienced by billy in his pursuit of ballet dancing
  • “Sanctimonious little shit” ~mrs Wilkins
 Hyperbole  Anomaly 

Adversity 

 Mrs Wilkins, levels out tony after an argument, by over-exaggerating his lower-class nature.

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