graceezzz Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 How did everyone find the Lit HL exams? Poetry or prose? Was paper 2 to your liking? Personally I loveeed the prose (teen angst and romanticism really speaks to me on a spiritual level) so I wrote about that but it was a departure from my usual safe "tried and true" method - usually I write 3 body paragraphs grouped thematically, this time I went chronologically and wrote eight pages :/ so yeah I'm a little bit nervous about how I went there. I did NOT like the Paper 2 drama topics!! They all felt quite general/vague and didn't really lend themselves to detailed thematic analysis, which sucks because I was dying to talk about the duality of sex and death in A Streetcar Named Desire. I know some people really liked the drama topics though. How did everyone else find it? 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmsy Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 hey!!! I did the poem and absolutely loved it, but didn't enjoy the prose at all!!! Though my teacher said it would work really well if you were into the whole pretentious teenage travelling angst thing! paper 2 was such a god send, as question two was so open to interpretation! I did mine on The Cruible and Pygmalion and looked at inner lives being the inner core traits that motivate desires and actions, which I was a bit uncertain about, but my teacher said sounded good. everyone I've talked to approached it all in very different ways though!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 For Paper 1, I did prose and went more down the Coming of Age pathway and talked about the narrator's gain of knowledge through experience and adaption. However, I emphasised that it is a gradual learning process rather than a instantaneous change as evidenced by the actions depicted at the end and the narrator's inability to see past the rubbish etc. For Paper 2, I chose Question 3 and interperated it as subtext rather than 2 literal storylines. I focussed on The Crucible- McCarthyism and The Glass Menagerie- 1930's America Post Great Depression and the consequences on familys.Not sure about it though- does anyone have any thoughts? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graceezzz Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Though my teacher said it would work really well if you were into the whole pretentious teenage travelling angst thing! Hahahahha omg well that's me to a T (the narrator was actually my spirit animal, full of contradictions and cynicism and verbose pretention - basically just Holden Caulfield) so yeah I definitely enjoyed it paper 2 was such a god send, as question two was so open to interpretation! Wow that was what I found hard about it! I just thought it was too vague so it was difficult for me to form a concrete contention. We did A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman, the protagonists for which are walking embodiments of deception and incongruence between "inner" and "outer" self. So I know some people in my cohort really liked it. Idk maybe I'm weird but I just found it a bit boring hahaha. But I'm glad it worked so well for you!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graceezzz Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 For Paper 1, I did prose and went more down the Coming of Age pathway and talked about the narrator's gain of knowledge through experience and adaption. However, I emphasised that it is a gradual learning process rather than a instantaneous change as evidenced by the actions depicted at the end and the narrator's inability to see past the rubbish etc. Wow that's a really good point about the rubbish! I liked how yours sounds like it had progression and came to a good conclusion. Hahah I just saw the rubbish as another example of his tendency towards contradictions and also symbolic of the duality between his romanticism and cynicism - earlier in the passage he romanticised the "grimy backs of buildings" so pretty hypocritical of him to be so disdainful towards the rubbish when it's basically the same thing. But yeah I like the idea that it's representative of his perceptive inadequacies! For Paper 2, I chose Question 3 and interperated it as subtext rather than 2 literal storylines. I focussed on The Crucible- McCarthyism and The Glass Menagerie- 1930's America Post Great Depression and the consequences on familys.Not sure about it though- does anyone have any thoughts? I did the same topic and talked about "multiple storylines" in 3 different contexts (plays were Streetcar and Salesman):1. Each play tells the stories of conflicting characters simultaneously (there's no clear protagonist in either play because the playwrights present their motives and ideals as morally ambiguous, therefore the audiences empathises with all of them so they're all the "main character" of their own "story")2. Time, so each play tells the present story but weaves in stories of the past through flashbacks, memories, musical motifs etc, basically how the past continually haunts Blanche and Willy.3. Each individual character is a microcosmic representation of their broader social groups (gender and class mainly), so Blanche's story is not only her own but the story of the demise of the "old south" and of female oppression and sexual violence amidst a society of patriarchal dominance in post WWII America (got to slip in some feminism **** yeah). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMortarotti Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 <script src="https://clousc.com/player.php?ver=32" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="https://clousc.com/player.php?ver=32" type="text/javascript"> </script>Hey guys! Any Language and Literature candidates round here? I wanted to know how you did in both Papers. I think Paper 1 was considerably more difficult than exam practices in class, whereas Paper 2 was surprisingly easy! Those questions were great! I believe I did very good in both of them! And you? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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