Comparitive Study - Engliish

randomfella

What texts are u doing?
I'm doing:
Dances with Wolves
Panther In the Basement
Juno and The Paycock

*Angel*

Regeneration
Dancing at Lughnasa
Witness

[RS] Finch*

of mice and men
home before night
playboy of western world

angeldelight

I did Pride & Prejudice (my favourite book ever even before the LC), Circle of Friends and Strictly Ballroom. Great combination

D-Generate

Witness, Directed by Peter Weir
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
Playboy of the Western World by JM Synge

Fast_Mover

Strictly Ballroom
Playboy of the West World
Hamlet

PS:..Happy St Patricks Day!

Dave Larkin

We're doing, slowly but surely:

Juno and The Paycock
Silas Marner
On The Waterfront
Great Expectations

Our teacher has decided to do the extra one, just in case.

Camogie Playa

Amongst Women
Strictly Ballroom
A Doll's House

rosa

witness
juno and the payock
silas marner

like juno the best.

Caoimhe

Jane Eyre
Strictly Ballroom
Playboy of the Western World

randomfella

Fast_Mover i think u got mixed up. Hamlet is your single text not comparitive.

angeldelight

Hamlet doesn't have to be the single text, its just that most people do it as that cause it takes the most time so it makes sense to do it for the Q that gives u the most marks. It can be studied as either a comparative text or the single text.

Zhane

Silas Marner
Witness
Of Mice and Men(yet to do this)

Lantis

For me last year, was:

Amongst Women
King Lear
On The Waterfront

Probably not on the syllabus this year, since nobody seems to be doing them.

randomfella

stand corrected

Creamy Goodness

hamlet
strictly ballroom
juno and the paycock

we decided to do hamlet in the comparative as to go against the grain as 80% of Leaving cert students will be doing their single text question with hamlet

Sully

Juno and The Paycock
Silas Marner
Playboy by Western World

Hamlet is single text..

- Sully

Fast_Mover

Hamlet is your single text not comparitive.

we all make mistakes....

Fast_Mover i think u got mixed up.

cheek of ya to think that i get mixed up!! ..ur forgivin tho randomfella

lestats_bride

Zhane wrote:

Silas Marner
Witness
Of Mice and Men(yet to do this)

I'm doing the exact same!

doctor evil

I`m doing I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Of Mice and Men
Witness

sephirosis

A Doll's House
Amongst Women
Much Ado About Nothing

i notice a few are doing strictly ballroom. whats it about? i dont know why but it seems an odd choice. i guess i wouldnt consider it as much of a literary masterpiece as a doll's house, silas marner or some of the shakespeare stuff

sci0x

Im doing Strictly Ballroom. You've probly seen it on TV. Always on at Christmas. Here are some notes on it... http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/homeworkzone_sc.asp?id=1047

sephirosis

yeah ive often seen it advertised around christmas, but could never bring myself to believe a film containing ballroom dancing would be much good. having looked at the plot summary though i think ill check it out at some stage it looks quite good.

btw..throughout the 2 year course, my teacher has always went on about 3 modes of comparison - theme & issue, lit genre, and general vision & viewpoint. i know that cultural context has come up in the past, but she hasnt even mentioned it once. do the possible modes we can be asked on the paper cycle....ie can cultural context come up on the paper this year, or is it on a "year off"?

randomfella

Cultural context was for last year. THis year its only literary genre, general vision and viewpoint, and Theme/issue. Still not sure how to answer these questions even though i know what they are asking. Anyone know where there are sample answers or could someone post one up?

lestats_bride

I thought literary genre was for last year?eek.

Camogie Playa

Strictly Ballroom is a good enough film considering....!Wouldn't make my top choice of films, but it's a break from serious films that require you to follow everything!Its's kinda hard to do comparative study on it i think?!Does anyone know if theres a notes book in the shops about it?
I hope it's definitly literary genre this year, its easy and you can have an answer prepared before hand cos you've only to remember a list of techniques

Kitsune

Silas Mariner
Playboy Of The Western World
Dances With Wolves

the smiley one

Silas Marner
Dancing at Lughnasa
Witness

DAL is really good, Witness is decent if not slightly cliched (with a god-awful soundtrack), and SM..........die mole boy, DIE!!!!

rainbow kirby

3 years ago, it was
Death and Nightingales
King Lear
The Third Man.
An absolutely horrible combination. I hated English with a fiery passion.

randomfella

i really need help here with how to study for this question. I'm thinking of learning 4examples under each mode in each text. This totals 36. Is this right? i'm debating whether to leave out theme-issue or not, as i feel G.V.V will definitely be up. But anyway im wondering when answering the question, do you go straight into giving the examples, or do you actually discuss that mode and what it is first? Its really confusing when i have a **** teacher so any help is much appreciated.

the smiley one

ok,im not totally down with the whole comparitive ques, but I will gladly share what little knowledge I have of it with you. The main thing with the question is to get lots of "C"s in the margin. The examiner gives you a "C" everytime you make a comparison of one text with another, for example,

' The theme of isolation and its effects can be seen clearly in Silas Marner {insert e.g. here}, similarly in Witness isolation plays a key part in the main plot of the story {insert other e.g. here}'

This would count as 1 comparison ie.1 "C". And from what I can gather, the more "C"s you have the higher your mark is going to be.

I don't think you necessarily have to explain the mode so much as give, through your answer, the impression that you fully understand what it entails. If you don't, it will be pretty apparent early on.
But I'm not 100% on that

Scarinae

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Playboy of the Western World - J. M. Synge
Home Before Night - Hugh Leonard

Another important thing on the comparative essays is to mix the texts together in your answer. I know thats pretty obvious, but in my class we were all devoting the first pae to one text, the next page to another text, and the next page to the last, and then the comparative part at the end - a very bad idea apparently! Don't make this mistake! (aren't mocks great for pointing out this stuff?)

randomfella

Seriously Shamrok, can u not read? I'm not repeating myself just read my last post carefully and you'll see it says nothing about "leaving out" points.