Comparative Essays

Pala!

I have three comparative, I'm just wondering how to structure the essay.

How do you structure the essay (Eg: Give a brief summary at the beginning of each?), I haven't done that many of them.

Please and thank you.

blue-army

For my cultural context essay I discuss each text under the headings of:

Introduction

Poverty
Strained family life
Ability of men to express feelings.
Snobbery & Class Divisions
Patriarchal (male dominated) society
Church
Anything uniquely different between each..eg Role of Mafia in Cinema Paradiso

Conclusion

blue-army

In General Vision & Viewpoint...
I discuss...

• Intro (name what you've studied), Name your understanding of Gen Vis + V.P
• Openings in each.. Bright, Dark, Mixed.
• Key Relationships..again, bright, dark, mixed. Positive/Negative
• Society in which each text is set -optimistic/indifferent/balanced/realistic view
• Sense of Community
• Ending - grim vision / personal success not met with personal happiness / ends in varying ways...

BLARG

For a Cultural Context essay, be sure in the opening paragraph to name the texts and their writers/directors and also address the question. Also, give a brief intro to each part, i.e. "PHIC is set in a rural Irish town and takes part on the night before the lead character Gar leaves for the US". Then have a paragraph for each of the things you'll be talking about, and do at least 4 (Religion, Poverty, Class Divisions etc.). And then a conclusion addressing the question. The amount of texts you do depends on the question but it's generally 3.

errlloyd

For the theme and issue question I was only going to address one theme, the father son relationship, and mention the lack of the mother. Should I do multiple themes?

Texts =

Philadelphia here I come - Brian Friel
Cinema Paradiso - Guiseppe Tornatore
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. - Mark Haddon

aine-maire

blue-army wrote: »

For my cultural context essay I discuss each text under the headings of:

Introduction

Poverty
Strained family life
Ability of men to express feelings.
Snobbery & Class Divisions
Patriarchal (male dominated) society
Church
Anything uniquely different between each..eg Role of Mafia in Cinema Paradiso

Conclusion

I'm guessing you have the same sample essay on PHIC,CP and MOC as me :rolleyes: lol

Pala!

I'm hoping to do General Vision.

But I will go over Cultural Context also.

Des23

errlloyd wrote: »

For the theme and issue question I was only going to address one theme, the father son relationship, and mention the lack of the mother. Should I do multiple themes?

Texts =

Philadelphia here I come - Brian Friel
Cinema Paradiso - Guiseppe Tornatore
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. - Mark Haddon

Multiple themes a no-no, the question is titled 'Theme or Issue' not 'Themes or Issues'

errlloyd

Des23 wrote: »

Multiple themes a no-no, the question is titled 'Theme or Issue' not 'Themes or Issues'

Thanks mate, I Was getting worried right there.

christina_x

errlloyd wrote: »

For the theme and issue question I was only going to address one theme, the father son relationship, and mention the lack of the mother. Should I do multiple themes?

Texts =

Philadelphia here I come - Brian Friel
Cinema Paradiso - Guiseppe Tornatore
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. - Mark Haddon

if you get stuck, you could make your theme relationsips in general. you can then talk about relationships between kate + gar/toto and elena.

errlloyd

Oh yeah nice one, thanks for that.

blue-army

aine-maire wrote: »

I'm guessing you have the same sample essay on PHIC,CP and MOC as me :rolleyes: lol

Yep.

I rewrote it again in my own words...and threw in a few extra quotes. Got 63/70 in the pre.

Cultural Context better come up!!!!!

I'm not as happy with gen. vision & v.p.

cill-bill

OH **** NO!!! NEVER SUMMARISE THE TEXTS

you will lose so many points, u have to compare aspects of each but
NEVER SUMMARISE!!