That Hideous Strength: The Conflict Gets Nearer

Chapter 10: The Saracen's Head

Make a brief summary of this chapter.

Chapter 11: Mark and Dr Dimble (pages 296-305)

What does the conversation between Mark and Dimble reveal about each character and each 'side'?

Coursework Theme: Scientific Progress in That Hideous Strength

Begin a mind-map on how scientific progress is portrayed in the novel and what it is set against. Find quotations about the NICE and about St Anne's that would support your ideas.

Homework

1. Complete any outstanding written work.
2. Complete the notes on scientific progress.
3. Summarise chapter 12 "Wet and Windy Nights".

Image: Human stem cells

Playing Catch-up: Parents' Evening and Resits

This week I would like to focus on completing written assignments and reading of That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis.

Please use class time to focus on this as you have a parent-teacher meeting with me next week!

Please hand in finished written work on that you are behind on including:

1. Essay on Jane and Mark - go here for original title
2. Essay on the NICE - go here

Parents' Evening is 22nd October 2009; please sign up with me and/or Mrs Sanders. Please also make sure your resit entries are given to Mrs Kerridge by Wednesday 14th October or you will pay EXTRA.

"That Hideous Strength" Chapter 7: On Marriage, Love and Obedience

Contexts

You will present your ideas on 4 contextual aspects of our novels:

• Eugenics in the twentieth century- Margaret Sanger
• Ideologies of the inhuman - Nazism and the Master Race
• The Sex Planners - Alfred Kinsey
• The Use of Propaganda

The Pendragon

Referring closely to chapter 7, discuss and take notes on these questions:

1. How has Jane come to be at St Anne's again in this chapter?
2. What does Miss Ironwood tell Jane about the Director before she meets him?
3. What impression does this create for the reader?
4. What further impressions of the Director do we get from the descriptions on pages 188-190?
5. What do we learn about Jane's views on marriage from her conversation with the Director?
6. How does it differ from the Director's views?
7. What does the Director mean when he says "you...have lost love because you never attempted obedience?" (195)
8. What "four Janes" return to Edgestow by train after this meeting (199ff)?
9. What happens to Jane on her return ?
10. How does Jane get back to St Anne's and why is this significant?

Homework: Moonlight at Belbury

Re-read chapter 8 and make notes on what more we learn about the NICE and its intentions in creating "the New Man".

Image: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger.