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Theme or Issue - Cultural Context - Literary Genre

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  • 04-06-2008 4:50pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭


    I still have trouble distinguishing the differences between them when Im actually writing a comparitive. I'm studying Theme or Issue and Cultural Context. So assuming I know the three texts inside out, I should just study the societies they're set in for cultural context.

    For Theme or Issue do I just work with one theme or Issue or multiple ones?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    your teacher should have given you a parcticular theme or issue...im doing father-son relationships for example...
    Cultural context which im also doing..in short just right a piece on your 2/3 texts your doing.....

    Religion
    Class divisions
    social Setting
    Material circumstances...i.e poverty
    Role women
    Male dominated society???
    impact of society


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭hippety-pippety


    i was always abit confused abt this aswell. in one essay do u include both theme & issue and cultural context? or are they 2 essays & u have to choose? so for theme & issue, just one theme then? i.e. relationships (thats i think what we covered in school)


  • Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭BJC


    Do you need to use that many themes for cultural context?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    ye u choose 1..there seperate questions


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭hippety-pippety


    ok.. and am i right that you don't necessarily always have to compare all 3 texts?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    At least 2 and u choose a anchor text and base the other/s around it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭hippety-pippety


    ah right, i get it now, cheers :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭carpothepunk


    If its a one part question, itll say atleast two.

    ALWAYS DO 3. For HL,you ALWAYS need to do 3 if its a single part question.


  • Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭LayLay


    Theme or Issue: You should focus on one theme or issue in your 3 texts. You should really have picked a theme by now.

    Cultural Context: This is the world in which the characters live in that space the setting of your text. So for example; religious beliefs, political views, family values, social class, family influences, gender in the society (how the male is portrayed? how the female is portrayed?), education, society view on marriage and relationships and entertainment methods (such as drinking alcohol).


  • Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭BJC


    Thanks Soby and LayLay, I get it now, My Theme or Issue is morality. Did it last year. Gonna take a lot of brushing up.


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