TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"? | Sheila Marie Orfano
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here... Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, this prophecy sets into motion an epic journey for salvation. Written over 10 years, Dante Alighieri's three-part narrative poem "Divine Comedy" is both an...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history's most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex...
Curated Video
Use of Symbols
New ReviewThis video explains the use of symbols and introduces metaphor and allegroy.
Curated Video
'Animal Farm': reading and discussing Chapter 3
Pupil outcome: I can explain what happens in Chapter 3 of Animal Farm. Key learning points: - The pigs are the most intelligent animals on the farm. - Squealer uses rhetoric to control the less intelligent animals. - The pigs appear to...
Curated Video
'Animal Farm': exploring Orwell's influences and purpose
Pupil outcome: I can explain why Orwell wrote 'Animal Farm'. Key learning points: - Orwell was influenced by his varied life experiences - Orwell was against authoritarian regimes and viewed his writing as a way to criticise the abuse of...
Curated Video
Understanding the connections between Romanticism and Shelley's 'Ozymandias'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Shelley presents the values of Romanticism in 'Ozymandias'. Key learning points: - Shelley was a Romantic poet who rejected monarchy, religion and other powerful institutions. - ‘Ozymandias’ reflects...
Curated Video
Exploring structure, allegory and genre in Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Golding structures the text and subverts the traditional adventure novel genre. Key learning points: - The deaths in the novel drive the plot - they escalate in brutality and intention as the novel...
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 2.2 Historical Reference: Medieval Religious Practices
This video explores the historical and religious context of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," specifically focusing on the practice of preserving relics and its allegorical use in the play. The discussion illuminates how Brutus's reference...
Wonderscape
Unveiling Allegories: A Journey Through Symbolic Stories
This video explores the concept of allegory, a figure of speech where abstract ideas and moral lessons are conveyed through characters and events in a story. It uses Aesop's fables, like "The Goose with the Golden Egg" and "The Boy Who...
Wonderscape
Exploring Figures of Speech: Symbolism and More
This video delves into various figures of speech, focusing on symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and puns. It uses engaging examples, like Shakespeare's works, to explain how symbols convey complex, abstract ideas in literature,...
Curated Video
The Future of the Past
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) describes his motivation to find new perspectives of the past, and his excitement at the possibility of retrieving long-lost manuscripts.
Schooling Online
T.S. Eliot - Journey Of The Magi Lesson 1
Enjoy the Nativity story as you’ve never seen it before! In this lesson, we analyse lines 1-20 from ‘Journey of the Magi’ using easy explanations and fun visuals. Meet the famous Magi from the East and hear all about their tough journey...
Amor Sciendi
Allegory of Calumny: Changing the Canon of Art History
Here is our argument that Botticelli's Calumny of Apelles is the greatest example of the High Renaissance. Another example of resurrection in 15th century.
Amor Sciendi
An Allegory of Good Government in Sienna
Here we discuss the civics of Late Medieval Sienna through Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescos in the Palazzo Publico.
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - Values Approach to Essays (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Are you ready to take your analysis to the next level? Join us for a stimulating lesson on the values approach to essay writing. If you are studying advanced English literature, or would just like to go beyond themes in your essays, this...
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Exploring Figures of Speech
This video is a teacher explaining different figures of speech, including symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and pun. The teacher provides examples and explanations for each figure of speech and how they are used in literature....
Bridgeman Arts
Animated 19th century thaumatrope with skeleton and jester
Thaumatrope from the 1830s, animated to create an illusion of motion.
Bridgeman Arts
Animated 19th century phenakistoscope with grim reaper dancing
Phenakistoscope c.1833, animated to create an illusion of motion.
Bridgeman Arts
The Garden of Earthly Delights
A detailed view of Hieronymus Bosch's tryptich ""The Garden of Earthly Delights"".
Bridgeman Arts
The art of Tarot Cards
The art of Tarot Cards through representative examples from different epochs.
Bridgeman Arts
Melencolia I - Albrecht Durer
A detailed view of ""Melencolia I"" by German Renaissance master Albrecht Durer.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Courbet, the Artist's Studio
This video spotlights Gustave Courbet's "The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist". View the picture and listen as two renowned art professors discuss this historical painting.