Official Higher English 2013-2014 Thread

On one of my essays it asked to "show how this adds to your overall response of the play" or something like that!

I only mentioned this in the conclusion? Will I get a lower mark based on this? Or is the second part of the question less important - like you don't have to refer to it word for word as much?



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I did the shock essay for Gatsby, about Tom Buchanan being irresponsible which led to Myrtle's death and the people from the East being irresponsible at Gatsby's parties. Only had time to write about those two. What did you write about?

How can you guys provide such an I depth summary of your essays I can barely remember which quotes I used to be honest haha stressing out

Haha I dunno, for my drama one I couldn't! I guess I enjoyed writing the prose one hence remembering you will have done fine!!


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The shock of gatsbys death (incident) and then linked this back to "was Daisy driving? I said. Yes. He said after a moment" because it suggested that Gatsby was not to blame, thus his death for "murdering" myrtle was a shock to the reader and linked this to the shallowness of the UC as well as Daisy's characterisation.

I did Gatsby's characterisation, the fact he was portrayed as determined to achieve repeating the past- the shock there being that he wants to achieve something impossible. I then went on to talk of his character at the climax, ch7, how the reader have never saw Gatsby so broken as a character- shock- then linked this to the theme of the Decline of the American Dream and then for my 3rd seal of this paragraph I used the quote about him being in the bush, showing again his determined character- which shocked the reader considering we saw him broken as well as the fact the DoAD illustrated his dream was gone so it was a shock that he was determined to achieve it.

Then for my third section I talked about the characterisation of Tom and Daisy and how it was such a shock to the reader
The fact Tom was looking to the optimism in his mistresses death at the time it took place, whilst standing next to her husband- shocked the reader because it was his mistress as well as in reality there is no optimistic aspects of a healthy woman's murder. I then talked of Daisy's character- how at Gatsby's funeral she hadn't sent a message or a flower- shocking the reader due to the fact she had suggested feelings of love towards Gatsby throughout, the fact she never sent anything or attended conveyed her cruel, shallow, careless character as well as the fact I again, talked of in reality- when someone you are close to dies- particularly when there are connections/relations you would not just blank them from your life regardless of the situation- when they're innocent! And therefore this shocked the reader at the end clarifying the characters and also I had a running theme throughout of the shallowness of the UC and I clarified it with this quote

I hope that essay summary seems okay haha?


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That's really good! I was gonna write about Daisy's character too but I made my other essay WAY TOO LONG so didn't have time.

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50 each?! Oh shoot

Thanks for your help. So I will still get marks for it even though I started talking about the opening scene of another act ?

What'll happen if you put more than 3 areas of agreement for the last question? I know in other subjects you'll get marks off for writing more than it specifically asks you, since there's a chance if you write down loads of things you'll get the marks. Is that the same for English? (I only wrote 3, just wondering though)

Well if it's any consolation for my second essay I only answered the second part of the question in my conclusion and it was very very brief as I run out of time for it, so we're on the same boat

I done Othello for the opening scene and spoke about how the night time setting reflects iago's evil character and it continued through other aspects in the play


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No, marked out of 25 each. A total of 50 possible marks, the reduced to represent 20% of the total marks available.