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English P2 Aftermath
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Was ok, could be better. In Macbeth question (I did part (i)) I wrote how he became a villain from the "brave and loyal Macbeth", the witches part in it, relationship with his wife (from the partners of greatness to "she should have died hereafter", his mental outbursts. On Scotland I mostly wrote about the nature and illness, because nothing else came into my mind. I finished with his depression "I have lived long enough" and how the good triumphs over evil and restores Scotland's natural order. I also made a note, that the witches, who started all this mess, were not pusnished, so it gives me an idea that evil is always near. I just couldn't resist
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Cultural context was ok, just compared everything and made a notes how this makes it conflict. Wrote about setting and location, social class, family life and religion.
Unseen poem was nice and easy, I always get around 18/20 marks from it, hopefully this will be the same again. And yes, I found this poem quite sad.
Derek Walcott was a disgrace, wrote only three pages, all the quotes went out of my mind
, so it was a quick summary of his poems and then how each poem explores tensions and conflicts in an inventive fashion (blah blah blah about his eye for details and so on).
I wrote on the back - "what a horrible, horrible paper. A total disgrace. And smiling face
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Well, I hope I passed my English
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Did the ingredients macbeth question. It was ...delicious.
Wrote about 4 pages for that. Was an easy question anyway - you could have written about any aspect of it!
Comparative was great too. Wrote 6 pages about the different ways they're controlled,how they deal with it and a few other things like hierarchy etc.
Unseen Petry. Kinda ****ed that one up a bit. Only wrote a page of ramblings.
I did the Bishop question too. Words were flowing out of me for that one. I should have left myself more time though to cover everything in more detail because I started it with about 40 minutes to go and wrote 4 pages.
There was a collective sigh of relief when we all turned to see Bishop on the paper. 0 -
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I wasn't happy
Most people read the poets' names through the back of the paper and were delighted that Bishop and Walcott came up. I was too until I saw that the question was about the tension and conflic in his poetry. Now maybe it was just the poems I studied, but I couldn't think of any where tension and conflict were central to the poem.
You know who does have poetry FILLED with tension and conflict? Derek Mahon. Hmm.
So what did I do instead of doing the nice Bishop one about raising interesting questions? I foolishly did Walcott and agreed with the statement >.> and that's how I ended up messing up my timing due to poetry. My whole essay was rambling on about his exploration of the philosophical conflict between human nature and the passage of time. They were very tenuous links I made. I really should have done the Bishop essay but I panicked and thought I couldn't do it when it would have been much easier than the Walcott one
I did Cultural Context question on the onteraction with the culture first. I was a bit confused about whether you specifically had to talk about conflict only or interaction in general with a bitta conflict thrown in there. I hope you're allowed to say that sometimes characters didn't come into conflict with their cultures.
I'm happy with it anyway because I was able to write a good bit, and hopefully things like "in all three texts..." count as comparisons.
Macbeth was really rushed as I did it after the epic fail that was poetry. Only got three pages done, but I was very concise and to the point. I think I managed not to waffle, but there wasn't much cohesion between paragraphs.
Unseen poetry was an almighty mess. I did question 2 and did it on only about half to two thirds of a page >.<
So yeah, looks like it's bye bye medicine.
Don't worry about the unseen poetry, only 20 marks and a half page should get you at least 10 if not more.
I also did cc some areas where there was conflict but the charcters rose above it. Barring a pissy examiner we should be fine.
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I didn't really get it either. It was something like the main characters are in conflict with the world/culture, and in the light of this statement, compare how they interact with the cultural contexts. Confusing
The 1st cc question was quite confusing i thought aswell. Kept going on about conflict with society the police, upper class etc. However no idea what they meant by 'interact with their society'?
I just wrote a bit on the end how two of the main characters managed to adapt and that failed by not interacting
Reckon I'll be grand? 0 -
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Nice paper overall - can't describe the fear I felt before turning it over and the subsequent relief to see the words JOHN MONTAGUE - Godsend:pac:
The long cultural context question was a little too specific for my liking, but meh...could've been worse.
''An ingredient which makes Macbeth a compelling drama''...hmm...Hello - DECEPTION B-e-a-utiful!
So glad that's over!0 -
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Ugh, I feel so pessimistic after all these positive responses but I didn't think that paper was great. I think I really fcuked up.
Macbeth (4.5 Pages): I did Q (ii) and I opted for just one 'ingredient' which makes it a compelling drama. I wrote about how the graphic imagery is striking and greatly adds to the atmosphere/ sense of drama. I haven't heard of anyone else who did this. Does anyone know if this will be alright or should I have discussed more aspects?
Comparative (6 Pages): I did Cultural Context. Not too bad, actually finished it this time, unlike my pre. I focused on how the characters interact with their cultural environment rather than conflict. Dunno if that was the right thing to do.
Unseen Poem (1.5 Pages): This was so rushed and probably made absolutely no sense. I rambled on for ages and I thought I'd done okay-ish until I reread the paper at home and realised that the poet was a woman!! I kept saying "he"
What a fool I am. I wonder if they'll care much about this.
Prescribed Poetry (4 Pages): Finally, the complete disaster that was my Walcott essay. Oh god, it makes me cringe to even think about it. I had mainly studied poems which deal with his relationships, these poems bare no relation, in my opinion, to "tension" or "conflict". Ha, instead of disagreeing with the statement (with I never even considered- agh) I bullsh*tted my way through the question and went on about "the tensions in his heart" or "the conflict in his mind". The examiner is going to think i'm such a chancer. I only discussed three poems as I was running out of time and made a passing reference to a fourth.
I'd be very lucky to get a B now I'd say.0 -
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Ugh, I feel so pessimistic after all these positive responses but I didn't think that paper was great. I think I really fcuked up.
Macbeth (4.5 Pages): I did Q (ii) and I opted for just one 'ingredient' which makes it a compelling drama. I wrote about how the graphic imagery is striking and greatly adds to the atmosphere/ sense of drama. I haven't heard of anyone else who did this. Does anyone know if this will be alright or should I have discussed more aspects?
I'm sure you did just fine, relax Yeah just one ingredient for macbeth would be fine, as the question said "commenting on one or more of the ingredients, which, in your opinion, make Macbeth a compelling drama." 0
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