A2 English Literature WJEC anyone? 2013

If it helps anyone I have posted an analysis of The Flea by John Donne on youtube if anyone is studying it. My youtube channel is poetryhelp101

I'm doing King Lear, Oedipus Rex and The Wife of Bath.

King Lear and Oedipus Rex I can cope with, but The Wife of Bath's a pain.

King Lear I can cope with, the text of Oedipus Rex is awful. We're doing Paradise Lost by Milton, that's worse!

We're doing Hamlet, Revenger's and Wife of Bath; we've finished the plays but only finished the Wife's prologue today! We won't get her actual tale done for a couple of weeks because of Bank Holiday

With Hamlet and Revenger's I think quotes wise it's just going to be a case of learning them, I'm tempted to use flash cards or something, I'm more worried about WoB because of the language and spelling

Anyone else freaking out about the exam in general? We've been going over strategies but every time I try and write an answer to time it turns out like utter

My History has been totally messed around by one of our teachers (the only one that actually teaches American Civil Rights) having left at Christmas and given up a while before, and I screwed up in January so now have to resit a maths exam

Just too much to do for the rest of ever it feels like now as you'd probably all agree

Oh and 38 days till the exam just to scare everyone!

38, YOU FOR REAL *pulls hair out*

Omg, the fact that your upset about the fact that you will just recently finish your exam texts makes me feel even more......freaked out. We've not finished two of our exam texts!!!! TWO. Our teacher thinks we're doing GCSE or something. I need an A to get into university for Literature. Terrible, terrible, terrible. I do history to, and our teacher is not the best. Omdz.

I'm doing King Lear, Oedipus Rex and The Wife of Bath.

King Lear and Oedipus Rex I can cope with, but The Wife of Bath's a pain.

I'm doing King Lear & Oedipus for my drama, with Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience as my poetry. You can totally get an A* at A2, you need to get 90% for the A2 course (so the coursework and exam).

How many quotes are you learning for Lear, or are you just memorising the whole play?

I'm studying King Lear, Webster's 'The White Devil' and Blake's Songs of Innocence/ Experience too, still feel really unprepared though. Remembering quotes is definitely my biggest worry at the moment

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Hi,

I'm actually doing OCR and I'm doing King Lear, The Wife Of Bath, and The Rivals.

I was just wondering how you guys sorted your revision e.g posters or mind maps or whatever and what kind of themes you divide the text into.

I'd really appreciate your advice.

Thanks

Hey everyone, I've started picking out relevant quotes and posting them onto my blog. Hope you guys find this helpful. I know it seems late (note, our class has still not finished studying the texts!) :/

http://ismakousar.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/stuck-on-king-lear-quotes/

Can I just ask everyone? What are we actually getting assessed on in the exam? For example, my teacher keeps saying 'thematic this' and 'thematic that'. She hasn't made any mention to linguistic analysis. I have no idea what's wrong with my laptop/or TSR. It's writing in bold and italics even though I don't want it to

There is a definite need for linguistic analysis. An example of how I would approach a question would be:

"How does Shakespeare present the theme of control in King Lear?"

-Establish what aspect of "control" you are looking at: I'm going to chose control by gods/religion

-Quote and analyse the language. A good quote would be "like flies to wanton boys we are to the gods. they kill us for their sport" analysis: it's a simile there's the juxtaposition of flies to boys creating a definite power hierarchy between the two.
Another quote is the personification of nature by Edmund "Nature, thou art my goddess" so even the Evil characters, Edmund, believe in the power of gods.
Context - Here would could link in context about the pagan beliefs of the Elizabethan area, Shakespeare's own beliefs, etc.
Critical opinion - Some critics suggest that Shakespeare is promoting atheism as the "good" cordelia is not rewarded, some say Lear embodies Christ due to his suffering and sacrifice and he is even depicted wearing a crown of nettles. (The names of the critics are in York Notes, i'm just trying to recall from memory)
Link to Oedipus - Oedipus' fate is doomed by the Gods from the start, dramatic irony due to "Oedipus Myth", polytheistic grecian society. "Apollo" and Oracles at Delphi are in control.

thank you so much for this Maybe you should be my teacher! I cannot believe this, why has my teacher not mentioned ANYTHING like this? :/ Like nothing about your critics bit nor language.... oh deary me. And we're so close to the exam...