AS ENGLISH LITERATURE - 2000 WORD STORY TELLING FEEDBACK

AS ENGLISH LITERATURE
LITERATURE POST 1900 - 2000 WORD COMPARATIVE ESSAY
SPIES / EQUUS – STORY TELLING ESSAY FEEDBACK

updated Friday 14 February - in bold

Here are some general feedback points I found while marking all 2000 word comparative essays

You must think really carefully about the topic you are writing about. Consider the definitions of the topic you have chosen. What are secrets – what are they in these texts? What is childhood – and who are the main children in the texts? How are they presented?

You do not have to analyse language in the same way as you did for the 1000 word essay. Instead show how a topic is presented and compare or contrast it with the second text.

Use short simple sentences to communicate your ideas rather than long complex ones.

As part of your essay introduction you should give a concise and detailed summary of the action of the play or novel. You will need to introduce quotations you use showing briefly where in the novel or play the quotation comes. Context within the novel or play

It’s also a good idea to refer to the historical context of the text in the introduction but try and refer to it elsewhere.

One contextual point I think will be very useful to refer to in all your essays regarding Equus and the explicit sexual content and language is the reference to the publication of Lady Chaterely’s Lover written by D.H. Lawrence and the trial that followed under the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Check out the details here and here, then scroll down to the trial.

 

Here are some specific feedback points I found while marking the storytelling essays

In this question you have an opportunity to write about genre. Specifically the genre of theatre and the genre of novel writing. There are so many dramatic and novelistic features you can write about. I've gone through each of these in the feedback sessions I've had with you.