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The Edusites Guide to Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ »
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“Simple black or blue-black ink also used in medical applications. Made of soot (or ‘lampblack’) and mixed with gelatin or shellac as a binder. Much used by artists because when it dries it does not bleed” In 1930 Flora Crewe, an English upper- class socialite and poet, travels to India where she believes the hot weather will be good for her developing tuberculosis. She is 35, a model, a communist and her poetry has become controversial because of its open sexuality.…
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Indian Ink - Questions and Indicative Content »
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Question 1 Either A Anish This is so kind of you. Mrs. Swan Oh no. Your letter was irresistible. Having an artist to tea was beyond my fondest hopes for my dotage. We’ll let it sit a minute. Do you think you take after your father? Anish I don’t know. I would like to think so. But my father was a man who suffered for his beliefs and I have never had to do that, so perhaps I will never know. Mrs. Swan I really meant being a painter. You are a painter like your father. Anish…
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The Edusites Guides to Indian Ink »
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The Edusites Guide to Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Click on the pdfs below to access the guides Example content Synopsis and Overview In 1930 Flora Crewe, an English upper- class socialite and poet, travels to India where she believes the hot weather will be good for her developing tuberculosis. She is 35, a model, a communist and her poetry has become controversial because of its open sexuality. She stays for five days in the town of Jummapur ‘up from Bombay’.…
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Indian Ink Lessons »
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Sample Lesson Plan One In this lesson we will look at the scene below from Act One. The learning objective is to develop our understanding of the ways in which the characters are developed by the interactions between them and how they and their relationship has developed by the end of the extract. We will then go on and consider which of the play's major themes are broached here. By the end we should be able to answer the question: ‘how important is this scene in developing the tone,…
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