Paper 2: Essay
In response of one of six questions students write an essay based on both the literary texts studied in part 3 (25 marks).
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Weighting: 25%
Our texts:
Outline:
- How can we explain the continued interest in a particular work in different contexts and at different times?
- What do you think of the assertion that the meaning of a text is fixed and does not change over time?
- If beauty is a relative term, how do one or more of the works you have studied explore this idea?
- How valid is the assertion that literature is a voice for the oppressed?
- To what extent to male and female literary characters accurately reflect the role of men and women in society?
- To what purpose do authors sometimes choose not to follow a chronological sequence of events in their literary works?
- Do works of literary merit both reflect the spirit of the time and challenge it?
- Which social groups are omitted from a text, and what might this reflect about its production?
- How does a particular term or concept, such as childhood, change in the way it is represented in the texts you have studied?
- How is our critical perspective on literary texts affected by cultural practices|?
- To what extent is the critical approach taken to the analysis of a text itself influenced by specific cultural practices?
In response of one of six questions students write an essay based on both the literary texts studied in part 3 (25 marks).
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Weighting: 25%
Our texts:
- Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
- The Wife of Bath - Chaucer
Outline:
- Consists of six questions – students choose one based on the literary texts studied in part 3
- Students should refer to both of the texts they have studied in class, analysing the works in the light of the way in which the contexts of production and reception affect their meaning.
- How can we explain the continued interest in a particular work in different contexts and at different times?
- What do you think of the assertion that the meaning of a text is fixed and does not change over time?
- If beauty is a relative term, how do one or more of the works you have studied explore this idea?
- How valid is the assertion that literature is a voice for the oppressed?
- To what extent to male and female literary characters accurately reflect the role of men and women in society?
- To what purpose do authors sometimes choose not to follow a chronological sequence of events in their literary works?
- Do works of literary merit both reflect the spirit of the time and challenge it?
- Which social groups are omitted from a text, and what might this reflect about its production?
- How does a particular term or concept, such as childhood, change in the way it is represented in the texts you have studied?
- How is our critical perspective on literary texts affected by cultural practices|?
- To what extent is the critical approach taken to the analysis of a text itself influenced by specific cultural practices?
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