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AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

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Marked by Teachers essays 12
Peer Reviewed essays 1

The English Patient

5 star(s)
- Word count: 53965
- Submitted: 08/08/2009
- Marked by teacher: Jeff Taylor 30/07/2013
Within the three texts, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Look back in Anger by John Osborne and The Whitsun Weddings by Phillip Larkin, each writer explores the concept of a changing world.

4 star(s)
- Word count: 3400
- Submitted: 29/11/2012
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable
Compare and contrast how the destructive nature of love is presented in Shakespeares Othello, Websters The Duchess of Malfi and Mcewans Enduring Love
- Word count: 3063
- Submitted: 07/01/2012
Compare the opening pages of The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. How do Sylvia Plath and Ken Kesey use form, structure and language to explore aspects of mental illness and how is this expanded on through
- Word count: 3070
- Submitted: 06/01/2012
Comparison between The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and Misery by Stephen King.
- Word count: 3374
- Submitted: 03/01/2012
Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, and John Fowles The French Lieutenants Woman are both classic novels conveying the constrictions placed upon women by society and how they fight against the
- Word count: 3309
- Submitted: 04/12/2011
Write a comparison in the ways in which warfare is presented in the novel Strange Meeting and the play Journeys end
- Word count: 3015
- Submitted: 18/08/2011
Discuss the ways in which Frayn introduces the key features of Spies in the opening chapter.
- Word count: 3122
- Submitted: 25/04/2011
Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' and Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'. Compare and contrast the ways in which both authors present the futility of war in their text
- Word count: 3720
- Submitted: 28/03/2011
Explore the motives which have driven the villains in Othello by William Shakespeare and We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
- Word count: 3697
- Submitted: 23/03/2011

Conclusion analysis

Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out.

Do they use key words from the title or question?

Do they answer the question directly?

Can you work out the question or title just by reading the conclusion?

To what extent does Shakespeare use comedy to explore the perceptions of love in Twelfth Night?

"In conclusion I think that comedy plays a major role in the part of portraying the perceptions of love. Though the play has a very good potential of becoming tragic, this makes the audience appreciate the happy ending. Also I think it makes the play more comical because of the fact it was so close to going wrong for the characters and makes the ending much more of a relief and welcomed so greatly by the audience. BY GEORGINA WADSLEY"

To what extent does Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" conform to the model of the comedy of manners you have studied?

"To conclude, in the end of the play we can see that Oscar Wilde indeed does conform to the comedy of manners and creates a light hearted comedy that universally all people can relate to and enjoy, which is why the play has been so popular for more than a century."

Focusing On a Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein compare some of the ways authors explore the idea of what it means to be an outcast.

"In conclusion, the authors of both A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - and Frankenstein - Mary Shelley have don e well in concealing the ideas of an outcast in their novels, using the actions of the characters and knowledge of systematic psychological and sociological emotions the ideas of an outcast in the novels were unveiled."

AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

The English Patient

Within the three texts, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Look back in Anger by John Osborne and The Whitsun Weddings by Phillip Larkin, each writer explores the concept of a changing world.

Compare and contrast how the destructive nature of love is presented in Shakespeares Othello, Websters The Duchess of Malfi and Mcewans Enduring Love

Compare the opening pages of The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. How do Sylvia Plath and Ken Kesey use form, structure and language to explore aspects of mental illness and how is this expanded on through

Comparison between The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and Misery by Stephen King.

Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, and John Fowles The French Lieutenants Woman are both classic novels conveying the constrictions placed upon women by society and how they fight against the

Write a comparison in the ways in which warfare is presented in the novel Strange Meeting and the play Journeys end

Discuss the ways in which Frayn introduces the key features of Spies in the opening chapter.

Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' and Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'. Compare and contrast the ways in which both authors present the futility of war in their text

Explore the motives which have driven the villains in Othello by William Shakespeare and We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

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