A2 ENGLISH LITERATURE
DRAFT 3000 WORD ESSAY
COURSEWORK QUESTIONS
TITLE
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AUTHOR
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GENRE
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Death of a Salesman
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Arthur Miller
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Drama
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The Go-Between
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LP Hartley
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Novel
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Selected Poems John Betjeman
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John Betjeman
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Poetry
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1. “Coming to terms with painful realities is often a focus of literary texts.” Compare and contrast the ways in which your three chosen texts deal with this issue.
2. Compare and contrast the ways in which your three chosen texts explore the tension between expectation and disappointment.
3. Compare and contrast the ways in which your three chosen texts examine outsiders who do not belong.
4. “Literature is often a means to offer a critical perspective on society.” Compare and contrast your three chosen texts in the light of this statement.
5. “The intense suffering that literature often depicts is its most compelling aspect”. To what extent and in what ways do your three chosen texts endorse this view?
6. “Life is often presented in literary texts as diminishing us rather than rewarding us”. Compare and contrast the three texts you have read in the light of this statement.
7. “Love brings intense pain and suffering as well as fulfilment and joy”. Compare and contrast your three texts in the light of this statement.
8. “Many literary texts, especially those written in the twentieth century, offer the reader a bleak view of the human condition”. Compare and contrast the extent to which this view applies to your three texts.
9. In modern literary texts especially, symbolism and imagery play a vital role in conveying a writer’s ideas. Compare and contrast the use made of these methods in your three chosen texts.
10. “In the twentieth century, a key theme in literature has been a crisis of identity or a search for meaning in an essentially unrecognisable world”. Compare and contrast the ways your three chosen writers have explored this idea.
11. “Relationships are often the source of conflict rather than comfort”. To what extent do your three chosen texts support this view?
12. Compare and contrast the importance of the past in three texts.
