Provide a close reading of Chapter 21 from
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters
Realism
Character
Narrative
Other formal, thematic or contextual features evident in the extract
Darwin
Detailed knowledge of the chapter
Identify key formal and thematic features of the extract and explain how they relate to the book as a whole.
· The title of the chapter ‘half-sister’ implies a certain amount of distance with the word ‘half’. They will never be whole sisters but at the same time there is a bond between them. However the word ‘sister’ is intrinsically linked with the family unit, which purveys a sense of closeness.
Identify examples of particular narrative techniques and describe their funct
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