Tam O'Shanter

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A level English (Comedy Poems) Mind Map on Tam O'Shanter, created by Ellen Turner on 17/06/2017.
Ellen Turner
Mind Map by Ellen Turner, updated more than 1 year ago
Ellen Turner
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Tam O'Shanter
  1. Scots Dialect
    1. Oral Storytelling Tradition
      1. Unreliable narrator
      2. Colloquial feel
        1. Sounds Drunk
          1. Hides the grotesque
          2. Supernatural
            1. Anti - Climatic
              1. Mocking C18 Gothic genre
              2. Mock Epic Poem
                1. Hero goes on a journey
                  1. "lang Scots miles"
                  2. Supernatural
                    1. Hero good with women
                      1. Pathetic fallacy
                        1. Eco-criticism
                          1. "nae man can tether time nor tide"
                        2. Maggie is the true hero
                          1. "Remember Tam O'Shanter's mare."
                            1. "Noble Maggie"
                          2. Stereotypes
                            1. Drunken Scotsman
                              1. Nagging wife
                                1. Feminism
                                  1. Sexualisation of witches
                                    1. Tam gets what he deserves
                                  2. "Sulky Sullen Dame"
                                  3. Fighting married couple
                                    1. "She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum
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