AQA English Literature NEA Help!!!

Hiya! I’ve just completed my AQA english lit A-Level so feel I could help considering my NEA was also on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. I decided to compare it with ‘Enduring Love’ by Ian McEwan and looked at how men are victims rather than their female counterparts (I wanted to be controversial and have a strong counter argument as well as a strong main focus....I did do mine early year 12 though sooo... 😂). My teachers suggested the ‘Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath as another that could be compared with ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, though these were just suggestions and nothing absolute

Hi - I took my AQA English Lit exam in June and received a good (though unmoderated) mark for my NEA.

Having read last year's examiner's report I'd exercise caution with The Yellow Wallpaper. I too was considering using it, but from what AQA have said there its brevity could actually work against you if you don't focus enough on it as a literary work.

As long as it has some level of respect in the literary canon, the sky is the limit. What's more is that there might be scope for higher marks if you compare different genres or forms, such as prose and drama. Overall, just remember it needs to be a "perceptive and assured" essay for Band 5.

You have lots of time so don't panic - it sounds difficult now but just enjoy writing it!

Thank you so much! I agree I’m a bit dubious about using TYW. I was possibly thinking of doing Jekyll and Hyde and The Woman in Black, looking at the representation of the villains? What do you think?

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath could be one to check out, especially within the ideas of gender and sanity?

Hi I am considering of doing my NEA on Obsession and how it can lead to mental instability and madness. I am thinking of Lolita but I am not sure for the other option. I am doing AQA. Does anyone have an idea for the second text I could compare Lolita to?

I have to let my teacher know my decision by Tuesday, so any help would be great thanks!

The yellow wallpaper would be a great text for obsession leading to madness and instability, the narrator becomes obsesssed with the yellow wallpaper and begins to go mad as she hallucinates and sees pictures on the wallpaper, lmk if you need help i did my essay on it too!

Hi - I took my AQA English Lit exam in June and received a good (though unmoderated) mark for my NEA.
Having read last year's examiner's report I'd exercise caution with The Yellow Wallpaper. I too was considering using it, but from what AQA have said there its brevity could actually work against you if you don't focus enough on it as a literary work.
As long as it has some level of respect in the literary canon, the sky is the limit. What's more is that there might be scope for higher marks if you compare different genres or forms, such as prose and drama. Overall, just remember it needs to be a "perceptive and assured" essay for Band 5.
You have lots of time so don't panic - it sounds difficult now but just enjoy writing it!

Hi - I took my AQA English Lit exam in June and received a good (though unmoderated) mark for my NEA.
Having read last year's examiner's report I'd exercise caution with The Yellow Wallpaper. I too was considering using it, but from what AQA have said there its brevity could actually work against you if you don't focus enough on it as a literary work.
As long as it has some level of respect in the literary canon, the sky is the limit. What's more is that there might be scope for higher marks if you compare different genres or forms, such as prose and drama. Overall, just remember it needs to be a "perceptive and assured" essay for Band 5.
You have lots of time so don't panic - it sounds difficult now but just enjoy writing it!