The English Literature (LITB3 - 20/06/12) Thread

Doing the Pastoral. Feel very lonely after seeing everyone talking about Frankenstein/Dracula and the Gothic genre in general.

Good luck to everyone!!
May the odds of a good question coming up, be ever in our favour.

Final Predictions anyone for Macbeth/TBC for Section A?
Section B - I've gathered transgression is a prediction
Also, how long do you guys spend planning? (if you do at all)

I'm doing Wuthering Heights if I can help I will?

Uhm, I believe that you CAN, but it's not the best way to go about it as it takes you off task and can lead you down many different routes which aren't necessarily going to answer the question, and under exam conditions, with only a limited amount of time, it's better to stick to stuff that is actually directly related to the question

Is that a past question?

I probably would say that its slightly of tangent because the questions asks you how rather then "explore" or "to what extent" but its a weird question because it doesn't really allow for a decent argument?

As long as you relate it to the latter part, so say actually characters are more important in presenting gothic themes, then I think it's ok

Sorry only just seen this,
as a revision tool i am writing down gothic techniques (blood, terror +fear, sex and sexuality etc.)

Struggling with quotes for
Blood
Terror and Fear (I assure you she is not in pain..? or something)

Stuff like that...

I'm doing pastoral too! Good luck everyone. I've barely learned ANY quotes...

Ah right thank you! Really questioning the abilities of my teachers reading this thread haha. I'm doing Dracula, Macbeth & Frankenstein.

I'm confused now haha, it wasn't a past question but settings have never come up so I'm a little worried it may and this was a practice question we got given. Not sure how I could agree/disagree just on setting!

we havent been taught about trangression either!!!

so its just going beyond the limits of boundaries and whats socially acceptable etc?? so it TBC could you talk about Carter reversing gender roles???

Faustus - going beyond the boundaries of knowledge?

Dracula- dont even know.


so worried all ive done tonnes of revision for TBC

blood quotes - "i pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fron till blood ran down" - bit with lockwood and cathys ghost! Perfect gothic scene!
Terror - "intense horror of nightmare" - same scene

I'm using a different technique for this exam. I have banked all my revision on 'one' text, and as each question = 40 marks.

I will spend the first 30-40 mins planning for Macbeth question A, and put all the quotes and ideas down relevant to the question.

Then carefully write it out as neatly as possible for the examiner and go for a high mark in the next hour or so.