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Answer the exact question. Deconstruct its key terms, dichotomise into two IDEAs, then merge them into a precise thesis.
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Prove each shared IDEA through comparison. Deconstruct key moments in both works and compare how their constructions create meaning.
Deconstruct question terms using DDM, then develop your thesis. Use Comparative PLANE to build sustained, in-sentence comparisons. Draft and revise with your evidence and feedback. →
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Use your DDM and comparative EAs in TEEALs. Revise the argument and analysis using feedback.
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Question + DDM Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready Read the exact question. Open DDM + Stages of IDEAs and Comparative TEEAL. Do Deconstruct useful conceptual terms. Dichotomise into two specific, connected IDEAs. Merge the IDEAs into an answer to the question. Done Both IDEAs answer the question. Your thesis connects them. Both works can demonstrate the argument.
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1. Deconstruct non-negotiable
Identify the important question term(s). Generate useful connotations , not dictionary definitions. Explore enough possibilities to find what links meaningfully to the studied works.
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2. Dichotomise non-negotiable
Use the deconstruction to generate possible divisions. Then choose ONE dichotomy that is useful for both studied works and can structure the essay.
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3. Merge non-negotiable
Connect the chosen dichotomy to the IDEAs you already know from both works. Merge both sides into a thesis that answers the exact wording of the question.
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Comparative PLANE Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready Read the IDEA above each workshop. Use Comparative PLANE and TEEAL. Do Plan specific moments and deconstruction in red and blue. Write your combined red and blue comparison in the purple AI box below. Send for feedback. Revise your comparison above; ask follow-up questions below the response. Done Precise evidence supports the IDEA. Deconstruction explains how choices construct meaning. Comparison develops throughout the EA. Your question + DDM
IDEA 1 / Side A
IDEA 2 / Side B
Thesis / overall answer
Deconstruct + dichotomise Useful question terms
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Your question + DDM
IDEA 1 / Side A
IDEA 2 / Side B
Thesis / overall answer
Deconstruct + dichotomise Useful question terms
Possible connected directions
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🔴 Text 1 evidence / movement
🔵 Text 2 evidence / movement
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IDEA 1 · Comparative PLANE IDEA 1
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Comparative PLANE focus / choices you are relating
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Text A · moments + analysis Moment 1 Moment 2 Moment 3 Text B · moments + analysis Moment 1 Moment 2 Moment 3
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IDEA 2 · Comparative PLANE IDEA 2
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Comparative PLANE focus / choices you are relating
Choose one... Character arc Foil / supporting characters Setting Recurring smaller ACs / patterns Narrative structure Narrative voice / perspective Tone shifts over time Different broader choices / combined focus
Text A · moments + analysis Moment 1 Moment 2 Moment 3 Text B · moments + analysis Moment 1 Moment 2 Moment 3
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Review your argument Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready Read your question and IDEAs. Use Comparative TEEAL. Do State each IDEA. Develop Elaboration and comparative EA. Link the reasoning to your answer. Done Each paragraph develops its IDEA. Analysis supports the argument. Your question + DDM
IDEA 1 / Side A
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Deconstruct + dichotomise Useful question terms
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Write and revise Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready → Do → Done Get Ready Start here directly or use your earlier work. Use Comparative TEEAL to organise your writing. Do State each IDEA and develop it for Text A and Text B. Write comparative EA, then use TEEAL to complete the essay below. Check the essay and revise the priority issue. Done Your argument answers the exact question. Evidence, deconstruction and comparison support each IDEA. You have revised using the feedback. Your plan
Introduction · Crit C Model introduction For better or worse, violence has been a fundamental part of the human experience throughout history, both for individuals and societies as a whole. In Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Alan Moore & David Lloyd’s graphic novel V for Vendetta both sets of creators put violence at the centre of their texts. Camus used the text to show the philosophical idea of absurdism, which came about after witnessing the horrors of WW2, particularly in his home country of France. Moore & Lloyd were similarly influenced by the violence of WW2 when creating their text in 1980s England, and were concerned that historical violence was reappearing in terms of a rise in Fascist thoughts. Ultimately, both texts reveal that while violence can be a symptom of philosophical and political problems, it also can be the solution to those problems. First I will discuss how both sets of writers reveal violence as a fundamental symptom of problems: in The Stranger, Camus shows us violence as the symptom of Absurdity; in V for Vendetta, Moore & Lloyd reveal tacit and overt violence as the way fascism supports itself. Then, I will reveal how both writers also show violence as the solution to problems: Camus reveals intellectual violence is necessary to reach The Absurd Hero status while Moore & Lloyd show the importance of revolutionary violence in opposing Fascism by becoming an Anarchist.
Your argument + writing Start here or use your earlier work. These boxes stay linked to DDM and PLANE. Use TEEAL as a guide; write the full essay below whenever you are ready.
IDEA 1 Break down your IDEA using the Stages of IDEAs to develop its specific meaning and implications.
Text A · develop this IDEA
Text B · develop this IDEA
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Text A · develop this IDEA
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Model TEEAL · example for either paragraph In Text A and Text B, the creators of both texts reveal how violence is the main symptom of a lack of human connection. One key element that Vivian Morloyd showed in her graphic novel is how fascist governments will actively seek to destroy human connection not only from the state causing violence against civilians, but crucially through causing civilians to enact violence against themselves. To Morloyd, this is the key to fascist consolidation of power. The Norsefire effectively causes the civilians of Britain to fear and hate each other, hence obscuring the state’s role in committing violence. Meanwhile, Campe focuses much more on the individual and the way that the Absurd nature of the world inherently creates similarly violent and disconnected relationships, whether that is between Milton and his mother, his friends, those who ostensibly wish to help him (such as the Chaplain), or crucially, strangers like the Wealthy Industrialist. In all these relationships, Campe shows us Milton becoming progressively more and more disconnected from others. Crucially, this causes him to become more and more violent as the novel progresses. As such, the disconnect produces violence in both texts. The similarity in how both writers show this progression to violence is most revealingly demonstrated in Valerie’s Story in Text B and during the murder of the Wealthy Industrialist in Text 1. In both texts, each writer created ‘everyman’ characters to show us that this lack of human connection and the violence caused. EA COMPARISON DECONSTRUCTIONS: Importantly, the everyman nature of both victims means they are ‘unknown’ to both the perpetrators and the reader, meaning the violence inflicted on them is universalised. Valerie represents any and all opposition to the fascists (so she is faceless to the reader), and the Wealthy Industrialist is never once shown to be ‘deserving’ of Milton’s violence beyond being an annoying stranger to him. Consequently, both writers avoid identifying the victim, and this lack of human connection directly causes the violence. Therefore, in both texts, it is precisely this lack of human connection that leads to unprovoked and unnecessary brutal violence. The protagonists are opposites (Valerie is the victim in Text A, Milton the perpetrator in Text B), and the cause is the same. Decon Text 1: For example, Morloyd excludes facial features of Valerie and her lover. Every time Morloyd frames Valerie, the reader sees the characters from behind. The only identifying feature is Valerie’s blond hair. Contrastingly, when we see members of the fascist government, we do see their faces, highlighting how it is only victims who lack humanity in fascist regimes. To strengthen this lack of human connection, in book 3, Morloyd shows us Valerie’s prison guard torturing her. In a very darkly humorous passage, we see that the guard (who is always shown in closeup, revealing his full identity) forgets Valerie’s name across multiple panels, even as he tortures him. Hence the contrast in facial features exacerbates the way that a lack of human connection causes violence. Decon Text 2: By contrast, Campe also chooses to avoid identifying the victims. In the case of the Wealthy Industrialist whom Milton murders at the end of Book 1, we only view him through the sound of his walking stick, which continually irritates Milton throughout the text. By employing this aural imagery from the first time we “see” the Industrialist, and by having it become louder and louder prior to the murder, Campe shows us how mindless the violence is. Not only could it occur to anyone, the cause is so minor as to be negligible. Thus when Milton finally commits the murder, Campe focuses the descriptions on the gun firing, anthropomorphising it as a part of Milton’s arm while providing no descriptions of the impact of the bullets. This is because, to Milton, the victim did not actually matter at all. As such, the act of violence itself needed the victim to be a stranger disconnected from him. EA COMPARISON - EFFECTS: Ultimately, both writers show the same mechanism: when a victim has no face and no name or is reduced to an irritating sound, the perpetrator cannot register that victim as a person. Morloyd achieves this through the guard’s pattern of forgetting, and Campe achieves this by emptying the violence of any victim. Consequently, in both texts, the lack of human connection does not just accompany the violence; it makes the violence possible.
Conclusion · Crit C Model Both texts reveal that violence occurs when humans are not connected emotionally. Both writers explore how rebuilding human bonds can ameliorate violence.
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