Inheritance Shows Us That Everyone Suffers from Prejudice When Personal Interests Are

Inheritance shows us that everyone suffers from prejudice when personal interests are challenged. Discuss.

Synonyms:

Everyone: Everybody, all
Suffers: Hurts, agonises, grieves, aches
Interests: Stake, share, claim
Prejudice: Bias, bigotry, discrimination, intolerance
Challenged: Tested, confronted

Key questions to consider:

Does everyone in the play suffer from prejudice?
What are the types of prejudice in the play?
Who reveals themselves to be the most prejudiced character?
What are some of the character’s personal interests?
What are the various causes of prejudice in the play?
What is the impact of the prejudice on various characters?

Re-write the topic as a question then answer it:

Do all the characters in the play suffer from prejudice due to personal interests being challenged?

Form a CLEAR contention by answering your question.

YesNoMost but not all

Write a sentence (or two) which clearly states your contention.

DRAFT:

Most but not all - In Rayson’s ‘Inheritance’ the audience is exposed to a diverse range of characters who often place their personal interests above others. When these are challenged, intolerance of others is exposed resulting in the majority of the characters experiencing prejudice in one form or another, sometimes with drastic consequences. Others however escape this damaging treatment.

How can this be improved?

Yes – The members of the Delaney’s and Hamilton’s are brought together to celebrate the milestone birthdays of Dibs and Girlie. As the family members spend time together their personal interests are revealed and often challenged by others. This exposes a history of xenophobic attitudes and racial, social and religious intolerance. Individual’s reactions to their interests being threatened is to be hurtful and offensive to others and this narrow mindedness resultsin no one escaping from being subjected to prejudice.

How can this be improved?

Don’t use the No answer. WHY SHOULD YOU AVOID THIS ANSWER?

Introduction must contain:

General sentence or two including author, title, setting and a sum up of the main ideas/themes in the play.
Your contention
The arguments, ideas, characters that you will be using and developing throughout you essay.

If it is in your introduction it MUST be in a body paragraph!

Points to consider BEFORE you begin:

What are the key ideas around the topic that you want to write about?
Who are the best characters to include?
What makes them good for this topic?
What forms of prejudice will you be discussing?
Which personal interests will you be focussing on?
How do you plan on linking these together into an effective paragraph?
What EVIDENCE will you be using?

Paragraph plan example.

William. Yes he has clear personal interests. Yes they are challenged. Yes he reacts in a negative way.

I know you KNOW this but now you need to SHOW this.

Have a go at answering these questions as part of your planning.

What is his plan? Who is involved in it? What does he need to happen for him to reach that goal?
Why is he visiting the farm so often? What is his plan for Farley and Dibs? Quotes?
Who challenges his goal? How do we know this? Quotes?
How does he react to his plans being disrupted? Be specific – Use scene 6 Act 2! Who suffers due to his actions and words? How do they suffer? What is the result of this?Quotes?

How does all this support your contention?

Use your answers to the above questions as a guide to construct a paragraph using TEEL.