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5 Why has the cartoonist drawn a beautiful blue sky on the television screen and the rest of the cartoon in black and white? 6 How does Somerville show the pollution of the sky? 7 How does Somerville show the pollution of the land? 8 How does Somerville show the pollution of our watercourses? 9 What does this cartoon reveal about its creator? 10 Why is the fact that the family is watching television important for the cartoonist’s message? Historical context It is certainly interesting and enjoyable to learn about the life and times of authors and other artists. The more we learn about them, the more we understand their work. All kinds of experiences and factors affect the creative process. By examining some of the following, we can place a text in its historical context: biographies of the author letters, diary entries and autobiographical writings of the author histories of the period the place or event that inspired the text the social background the place the text occupies in the overall output of the author or artist encyclopedia entries and internet websites relevant films and television documentaries. 2: Texts and contexts 13
Diary Samuel Pepys is famous for his diary, which provides a fascinating eyewitness account of events such as the Black Death and the Great Fire of London. It is also especially interesting because it contains personal details of everyday life in seventeenth-century London. Pepys himself was an English naval administrator and a member of parliament. •• The Great Plague of London: 1665 •• April 30th. Great fears of the sicknesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve us all! June 10th. In the evening home to supper, and there to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come into the City. June 15th. The towne grows very sickly, and people to be afeard of it; there dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before. June 21st. So homeward and to the Cross Keys at Cripplegate, where I find all the towne almost going out of towne, the coaches and wagons being all full of people going into the country. July 30th [Lord’s day]. It was a sad noise to hear our bell to toll and ring so often today, either for deaths or burials; I think five or six times. August 12th. The people die so, that now it seems they have to carry the dead to be buried by day-light, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at nine at night all, as they say, that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre. August 30th. But Lord! how every body’s looks, and discourse in the street is of death, and nothing else, and few people going up and down, that the towne is like a place distressed and forsaken. October 16th. So many poor sick people in the streets full of sores; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every body talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, and so many in that. And they tell me that in Westminster there is never a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead; but that there are great hopes of a great decrease this week; God send it! November 15th. The plague, blessed be God! is decreased 400; making the whole this week but 1300 and odd; for which the Lord be praised! December 25th [Christmas-day]. To church this morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another. from The Diary of Samuel Pepys 14 National English Skills 7
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