A-level English Literature Study Group 2023-2024

hey !! i'm a bit late but i'm currently in year 13 doing ocr lit too (also applying for english at uni lol) - i also study bloody chamber, hamlet and streetcar if you need any help/advice on those !!

hi guys! i’m writing my english NEA about how women are presented in the great gatsby and a streetcar named desire and i need to include a bit about authorial intent. my point is that they are presented as single faceted/ one dimentional (they are fixted on their own ideal of a happy marriage, and always sticks to their abusive husbands). but what is the purpose of this? what is the function of daisy's and stella's characters? what are the authors trying to achieve my presenting them this way? are the authors trying to make a point about how women should behave?? or to criticise society? or...? and why???

hi im bev, im currently studying english lit, socio and spanish. so far i really like the play ‘a streetcar named desire’ which is my strongest but poetry is definitely my weakest. for frankenstein i would say 50/50. does anyone have tips for poetry, do u think it’s best to memorise quotations as i feel even though it’s open book, i feel more comfortable with revising it as if it were a closed-book (like at gcse), + is it okay if i memorise my analysis to the quotations or is that too much? i’m not sure how to go about it bc i have written really good points, it’s just not stayed in my head

hey !! i'm a bit late but i'm currently in year 13 doing ocr lit too (also applying for english at uni lol) - i also study bloody chamber, hamlet and streetcar if you need any help/advice on those !!

This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams

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hii, i'm doing the OCR board and the texts i'm studying are: Hamlet, Rossetti's A Goblin Market and Other Poems collection, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and then The Gothic (the two texts we studied in class being Dracula and Frankenstein) and for coursework i did Carol Ann Duffy's Feminine Gospels, and then a comparative between Wide Sargasso Sea and A Streetcar Named Desire
i really enjoy studying Hamlet, especially having discussions about different themes and interpretations, as well as the research for coursework (although now it is starting to get a bit painful)
i'm struggling most with memorising quotations and critics, as well as my timing in exams (although that is getting better over time)

ay fellow Hamlet, Rossetti, and Streetcar student! Hamlet is probably also my favourite, tied with Streetcar

This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough!

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this!

hiii!!

i do edexcel othello & streetcar, wuthering heights & 1000 splendid suns, romantics i did dracula & carmilla for my coursework!!

ooo someone else who does wh, how do you find it?

hey !! i'm a bit late but i'm currently in year 13 doing ocr lit too (also applying for english at uni lol) - i also study bloody chamber, hamlet and streetcar if you need any help/advice on those !!

Hi! I am with OCR , studying Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, 1984-Orwell, the children of men ( James) and The merchants tale ( Chaucer) and she Stoops to conquer ( goldsmith) . I am an straight A student for English literature and with my 14th century English I sometimes get higher, what I mostly struggle on is context for Unseen dystopia does anyone who does unseen dystopia have any advice on how to learn the historical contexts for someone who is not that historically educated ?

hii, ik this doesn't answer your question but i wanted some advice from you if that's okay. currently, i am rlly struggling with exam questions and wanted to ask for your advice on structuring them - specifically Shakespeare. how do you develop your ao1 and 2 for the first one and just talk about critic (since ao5 is 50%) for the second one.

tysm in advance!!

i love wh so much ngl i love it when people are completely crazy

it is an insane book lol. I do aqa and have to compare it to my poetry anthology which feels a bit odd, do you have to compare it to another novel or just get to talk about it?