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**Higher Level English Paper 2 2012 - Before/After

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Wiirdo


    Anyone have any idea about what to study for Wuthering Heights? The other ones we did were Casablanca and The Great Gatsby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 dmcb123


    ''Describe Hamlet''.. He is an absolute ballbag -- A1

    Oedipus complex, he wants to ride his mother with his ballbag -A0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 Hailey123


    I think ill manage today ...maybe

    Ive learned plath and heaney (barely) , studying rich right now just in case
    Ive learned GV+V and theme (ultimate sacrifice) is what we learned
    And for Hamlet...Antic disposition, Role of Women and Deception (kinda).

    I think the hardest will deffinitly be the poetry since I know plath well but the others are just bullet points really :( Does anyone else think anything else will come up throughout the whole paper?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Spattersonox


    dmcb123 wrote: »
    Oedipus complex, he wants to ride his mother with his ballbag -A0

    After googling that, mind is blown.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 dmcb123


    After googling that, mind is blown.


    I'm telling you throw that in an essay if your discussing him and gertrude! Bitches love the oedipus complex :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    dmcb123 wrote: »
    I'm telling you throw that in an essay if your discussing him and gertrude! Bitches love the oedipus complex :)

    That's not a bad idea ;). Do not know why I'm repeating this paper though :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭cocopopsxx


    Surely they can't leave out all of rich, Larkin and Plath can they? one is bound to come up, isn't it? Oh god have mercy! :( :'(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭ScareGilly


    Already failed Paper 1 I'd say.... And all I've studied for paper 2 is Plath, Deception, role of women and Claudius for Hamlet, and I haven't done a comparative yet...

    How screwed am I? :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭Dapics


    ScareGilly wrote: »
    Already failed Paper 1 I'd say.... And all I've studied for paper 2 is Plath, Deception, role of women and Claudius for Hamlet, and I haven't done a comparative yet...

    How screwed am I? :o

    The comparitive is actually quite easy to study and do well in. You just have to constantly and I mean constantly relate to the question and describe the impact your studies made on you, you can do a B answer by just writing dribble and relating to the question


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭HowAreWe


    ScareGilly wrote: »
    Already failed Paper 1 I'd say.... And all I've studied for paper 2 is Plath, Deception, role of women and Claudius for Hamlet, and I haven't done a comparative yet...

    How screwed am I? :o


    you'll be grand, when you get your results you'll be surprised.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    You'll be ok with Plath I reckon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭HowAreWe


    After googling that, mind is blown.

    I'd say delete your history or you might get some weird looks around the gaff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    Went over Rich, Plath and Heaney and went over some comparative notes and walked around my house like a madman screaming out Hamlet quotes (I'm alone, it k)

    I'm confident :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Lago


    ScareGilly wrote: »
    Already failed Paper 1 I'd say.... And all I've studied for paper 2 is Plath, Deception, role of women and Claudius for Hamlet, and I haven't done a comparative yet...

    How screwed am I? :o

    I haven't studied anything except poetry because it brought me down so far in the mocks and I've only done three poets. Still, I'm feeling oddly confident, seriously you'll be fine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭treely


    If I'm sitting in that exam hall in 2 and a bit hours, and ovenhead isnt on the paper, I think I may just die.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Wiirdo


    Can anyone help with my comparitive? I need links between Wuthering Heights, Casablance and The Great Gatsby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 xcorina


    Larkin , A comparative question on key moments and Enduring appeal of Hamlet and I WILL JIZZ


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Bubbleope


    hoping for a nice simple hamlet q.
    lit gen
    and
    heaney or plath cause they're the only one's i'm properly prepared for. ):
    i can't do this english studying anymore. wrecking my head! :eek:

    can't wait to get this paper outta the way. even if i do do badly. /: idc anymore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭mcpaddington


    I really need:
    Lies, deception, false appearances or women for Hamlet
    General Vision and Viewpoint
    Plath or Larkin

    I'm usually pretty lucky so I hope these come up, although if things go wrong they usually go horribly wrong. Let's hope that doesn't happen. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭Britney_Spears


    If Heaney doesn't come up I'm truly screwed! Barely know kinsella! Hamlet and comparative should be ok.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Hayezer


    Anyone done Dancing at Lughnasa as single text? Any predictions? Just opened it there and realised I know none of it :L :L


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭finality


    Comparative

    2012 GV LG
    2011 TI CC
    2010 GV LG
    2009 TI CC

    If this happens they're repeating this pattern again... for this reason I think theme or issue is coming up.

    Could be wrong though! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭Kelix


    Single text: Hamlet
    Comparative: Emma, As You Like It, Dancing At Lughnasa

    Anyone else doing these?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭HowAreWe


    finality wrote: »
    Comparative

    2012 GV LG
    2011 TI CC
    2010 GV LG
    2009 TI CC

    If this happens they're repeating this pattern again... for this reason I think theme or issue is coming up.

    Could be wrong though! :)

    true, and considering that GV and TI have never ever come up together...I think LG may be coming up next year..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 Ajireland95


    The poetry really has me worried! i know plath, kavanagh well and larkin sketchily but i cant seem to learn rich or heaney at all, they're in one ear, out the other.

    The comparitive should be 'alright' for me, i did a dools house, inside i'm dancin and this boy's life

    Hamlet- ah sure, it'll be grand.... as long dramatic scene doesn't come up :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 nayrneleh


    Heaney/Plath/Kavanagh
    The role of women in Hamlet/Hamlet as a complex character
    General vision and viewpoint

    If these don't come up, I am absolutely ****ed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 mockgenius


    Hayezer wrote: »
    Anyone done Dancing at Lughnasa as single text? Any predictions? Just opened it there and realised I know none of it :L :L

    I'm the exact same. I'll just make something up on the spot as I'd usually get at least a C by doing that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 571 ✭✭✭irish_man


    Any way of finding out what poets came up? My uncle is supervising it and I'm tempted to give him a text but I know I shouldn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭bleuhh


    irish_man wrote: »
    Any way of finding out what poets came up? My uncle is supervising it and I'm tempted to give him a text but I know I shouldn't.

    Text him! I am mad to know as well!


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The 'OMG that was so easy I was finished in an hour' gang should be out soon.


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