King Lear

Rob30888

What sort of things do people reckon are going to pop up this year? The last time it was on, Cordeilia was asked, so I'm guessing maybe the two sisters and Edmund...

Glazun

Hm, I think Edmund or Lear's relevance in the modern world..

Attractive Nun

Lear scares me, it's really the only unpredictable question on Paper II. Except unseen poetry, obviously. A lovely question would be "a man more sinn'd against than sinning", or simply "Lear's journey and change" or something. I have questions prepared on imagery, Lear's daughters and the subplot as well. I'll leave it at that though, there's little point trying to predict on this one, me reckons.

Rockerette

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im so glad Lear aint our main text, its so ridiculously BELUGH i find..
aah well, g'luck

whassupp2

Watch out for a questtion on Edmund or is it Edgar......whichever of them is the evil one. ( i really shud no that at this stage)

Funkstard

I think there'll be a question on Lear himself in some shape or form. Here's hoping for 'a man more sinn'd against than sinning'. I'm probably going to prepare an essay on Edmund, the two sisters, blindness & evil too. Redemption also. Except there's no way I'll get all that done.

Rockerette

Rockerette wrote:

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im so glad Lear aint our main text, its so ridiculously BELUGH i find..
aah well, g'luck

but its HUGE. why would you do that to yourself for the comparative?

Orizio

Our teacher spent a lot of time on Lear himself,Edmund and the three sisters.'A man more sinn'd against than sinning' relating to Lear came up in my Christmas test,so I presume the teacher put it there for a reason.

Got to admit KL is pretty easy.Did it thoroughly in 5th year and 6th.Easy plot,easy to remember characters.

Now compare it to Cultural Context...:eek:

Rockerette

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but its HUGE. why would you do that to yourself for the comparative?

because you need to know nothing in detail


i havent even opened it since october of 5th year.. i could sum it up in about 5 sentences.. know pretty much nothing in depth about it..
but i know enough for a comparative!

plus, its only a minor feature in my comparative, i use for film & the other book for most of it, and just mention general points about Lear in each paragraph..


I would hate do have to do it as main.. we started off doing that, but we all complained and it got de-moted to comparative

Sawa

Glazun wrote:

Lear's relevance in the modern world..

Yeah, my english teacher said thats whats "going around the english teachers in the staff room" eh so maybe "Lear's relevence to the 21st century."

Rob30888

Sawa wrote:

Yeah, my english teacher said thats whats "going around the english teachers in the staff room" eh so maybe "Lear's relevence to the 21st century."

Eek! What sort of things could you say?

Funkstard

Yeh I wouldn't have a clue what to say for that..apart from the whole original soap opera thing