AQA A2 English Literature 2016 - Elements of the Gothic (LITB3) - OFFICIAL THREAD

ahh finally! I thought it was amazing because most of the entrapments were not physical so you could be more in depth, like writing about social entrapment, emotional entrapment, psychological etc. What ideas on entrapment did you use? My overarching theme was that ultimately entrapments lead characters to transgress boundaries and harm themselves through aiming to break free from their various forms of imprisonments. I'm worried i may have stretched it a bit too much though...

lmao i gave a radical paragraph on how macbeth is a victim of the society he's placed in where masculinty/femininty is blurred. Duncan = feminine and therefore an inadequate ruler in terms of the Jacobean audience and how scotland has failed because of this disturbance in the natural order which macbeth was also a victim to (with male/female power dynamics shifted) LMAO waffle mania

I also talked about the werewolf as the girl was responsible for the murder of the grandma, even if she didn't murder the woman herself.

Anyone else keep forgetting to put quotes in for Section B? They came really naturally for A but i had to think harder for B so not sure i did enough!

For Section A I did Faustus, and argued that the reward of sin is death as Faustus himself affirms hence the punishment is just but it may not be just to renaissance ideal. I did I think 3 points on his sins and it's progression in the play and then 1 on his punishment and the ending I think.
I completely forgot that his punishment was 'hell' not 'death'... but I asked my teacher and he said it was an alternative approach so hopefully >.<

And section B, I did death. I argued that Carter uses death for obtaining female independancy and exposing the hypocrisies of the aristocracy and patriarchy that was present during the revolution.
I did the Snow Child and The Bloody Chamber title story - So 2 points on Carter.
I argued that Marlowe and Shakespeare use death in order to condemn social transgression. I did Lady Macbeth and her madness, death and detiorating relationship with Macbeth. So that was another paragraph. And then one small point on Faustus as it overlapped with my section A.

Is that enough? 4 points on section A and 4 points on section B?

For the section B setting question what should the evaluation have been. It was like "twe is setting an essential element in creating a sense of fear and dread." Look at the ways in which setting does create fear and dread and then ways in which setting is used for other purposes?

lmao i gave a radical paragraph on how macbeth is a victim of the society he's placed in where masculinty/femininty is blurred. Duncan = feminine and therefore an inadequate ruler in terms of the Jacobean audience and how scotland has failed because of this disturbance in the natural order which macbeth was also a victim to (with male/female power dynamics shifted) LMAO waffle mania

Reading all your responses and i've probably done ****. I wrote 12 pages and had like 20 mins left at the end and didn't know what to do so just read over.Loved this exam

For section B and the question on death, could you say how death takes on a more sentimental note in Frankenstein with the social injustice done to Justine who dies as a result and the loss of innocence with Williams murder?

Did anyone do the wuthering heights section A entrapment question because so far I don't know anyone who has lolololol

I did WH Section A too!!
I wrote about the entrapment of marriage and how Heathcliff exploited the divorce laws of the time so Isabella was 'trapped', also about Cathy being 'trapped' in her own body and wanting to become one with the moors (as I finished that point I realised kinda how weird it all sounded) and I also did social entrapment for Heathcliff, and a really cheesy one on being trapped in love :'

omg i did a paragraph on how macbeth is a victim of his society, basically saying that he's praised for killing on the battlefield but condemned for his murder of duncan/banquo/macduff's family etc, so maybe shakespeare is criticising a society that honours violence in some contexts and damns it in others??? and so perhaps macbeth is a victim of this because the distinction between 'good' and 'bad' murders is kinda hard to distinguish???? that was either my cleverest paragraph or my stupidest

omg i did a paragraph on how macbeth is a victim of his society, basically saying that he's praised for killing on the battlefield but condemned for his murder of duncan/banquo/macduff's family etc, so maybe shakespeare is criticising a society that honours violence in some contexts and damns it in others??? and so perhaps macbeth is a victim of this because the distinction between 'good' and 'bad' murders is kinda hard to distinguish???? that was either my cleverest paragraph or my stupidest