(OCR) A2 English Literature *F663* | 2016 Official Thread

I feel like you could easily do Antony and Cleo is 3 weeks (if you read it all with the translation before starting) but The Rivals and WoB takes time. Especially since you need to learn some snippets of the medieval English which is a pain to do haha. Antony and Cleo have quotes you can use for any question (you get two choices in the exam) and you just need to remember a handful of critics - my teachers recommended we only know quotes from Frank Kermode and Lucy Hughes-Hallet.

Yep, Antony and Cleopatra will be a life saver (hence why I performed well in the mock). I definitely need to work on A04 though (context).

I'm an IB student, so a bit of an outsider on here

But I saw a few people are doing King Lear and analysis is analysis so how different can our approaches really be?

If anyone is interested in doing revision together/sharing notes etc for King Lear, A Streetcar Named Desire or The Glass Menagerie, please let me know .

Hi I'm currently studying King Lear and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore with Paradise Lost.

Please tell me someone else is studying these?!?

I would be very grateful if anyone could get back to me with revision tips, or some quotes?

Thanks!

I'm studying tis pity and paradise lost book 9! instead of king lear i'm doing the tempest instead

AS Grade: A
A2 Personal Target Grade: A/
Section A: King Lear
Section B: The Rivals and Wife of Bath

Any revision guides/ techniques recommended for the comparison essay on T.R or W.O.B??

I was struggling with the comparison essay a LOT until my teacher gave us a sheet just walking us through how to write the essay. In summary, it the plan goes like this:

1.Introduction (set the scenes ad contexts), outline in one or two sentences the general argument and counter argument.

2. Start with the counter-argument (perhaps do 2 points - x2 wife of bath x2 the rivals).. Both points need to be compared, so basically two (or four if you want to split it up that way) paragraphs of comparisons.

3. Structure of both the drama and play that refers back to the question

4. Actual argument - start by saying while xyz is presented in a xyz, it would be difficult to ignore that xyz is also emphasised by both Chaucer and Sheridan. - 2 points consisting of 2 comarisons (same as counter argument)

5. Conclusion summarising the the points that link back to the question
e.g. both authors revel in writing about the absurdities of male behaviour. However, although male violence towards women is seen more often in the Wife of Bath than the Rivals, Chaucer and Sheridan also reveal in their writing that hidden beneath the veneers of humour is the dangerous, darker nature of male behaviour that is cunning and controlling.

Hope this helped

Great! is there any way you want to compare notes/quotes or something?

Hey, I was wondering if you had a list of themes of comparison between the two texts? or anything like that please!

Hi I'm currently studying King Lear and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore with Paradise Lost.

Please tell me someone else is studying these?!?

I would be very grateful if anyone could get back to me with revision tips, or some quotes?

Thanks!

Hey! I've got a list of themes but there are some that appear in one text but don't appear in the other, if that's okay with you? But I guess those won't be needed for comparison, but perhaps to accentuate a point.