lol nice emailHi, I was wandering whether you could give me some notes on Micheal X and Prisoner of Venda.
Thanx So Much P.S my email is sushiwasabibrother1@gmail.com
lol nice emailHi, I was wandering whether you could give me some notes on Micheal X and Prisoner of Venda.
Thanx So Much P.S my email is sushiwasabibrother1@gmail.com
MICHAEL X ON DEATH ROW:
-> Meeting w/ MX – “solemn and vulnerable”
-> Never q’s guilt but morality of Jamaican authorities; the morality & efficiency of the death penalty -> case relevance?
-> Moral outrage w/ emotive language, extend horror of treatment -> “human sacrifice”
-> Prep for execution described in brutal detail -> “breaking of the cervical vertebrae” confronts reader and persuades against death penalty as punishment
-> MX “not the same man” who killed Joe Shcrritt, making him seem to be diff. Person i.e. personality/attitudes -> diff. Language shifts truth
-> “the token black”… only accepted because he was black
-> Degrades social & political movements by naming it a “carnival float of sex, drugs and rock and roll”
-> “He came to believe he was a leader because the press said so”
-> “…impoverished lawyer” -> pos. aud. To favour GR as an ‘honest lawyer’
-> Changes structure – murder not told till end to lift MX character -> Sequential narration of events
-> SHAKESPEREAN ILLUSION -> “The rest is not silence” -> Portia; “Merchant of Venice”
-> ALLUSION -> “Gulliver’s Travels”; “this is a court which is jurisprudentially orbiting in space”
-> NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS -> give credibility
-> IRONY -> “The death penalty does not deter murder. On the contrary, I believe that it tends to increase by socially sanctioning violent revenge”
-> His main points appear to be that the death penalty is brutal & inhuman & sometimes you have to do bad things to make law
So I see in the Syllabus that the Afterword can be used as well. So uhh, can we use it?
NO!! Do not do the Preface. It isn't on the set listthe afterword is probably the most important chapter. it gives you the reasons behind robertson's views. and in that chapter he is arguably the most biased and the least balanced (although venda and show trials are up their) he wants a bill of rights. after i read that chapter everything made a lot more sense. also if you're really keen i would recommend the preface, it sets the scene really well
Hey guys, if any of you yr 12's are doing the justice game by geoffrey robertson I can help you..
I did it for "telling the truth" last yr, and got a band 6 in english, and although it was VERY BORING it's one of the texts that not many ppl do (they mostly do frontline) so therefore if your essay is good it'll stand out. the cases I did were
-the trials of Oz
-romans in britain
-michael X on death row
-prisoner of venda
-show trials
-diana in the dock
feel free to ask me any questions or send a pm if you need help!
rofl stubsHey mate,
i'm currently studying The Justice Game and was wondering if you could send any notes that you had?
my email is stubs_001@hotmail.com
anything you have would be appreciated
cheers.