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    Section 2 - Creative Writing

    I saw 'place' and wanted to cry with happiness.
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    General Thoughts: English Advanced Paper 2

    I took 'closing scenes' to mean 'last act' and then talked about how the last act resolves underlying threads of thematic thought that permeate the play - my two main points were crisis of mortality/OHNOESIWANTTOKILLMYSELF and corruption. Our teacher didn't actually go through the end of the...
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    Belonging Creative Writing Ideas

    Place is actually quite a bit broader than people; it's not just location, after all, and is much more easy to link to the more profound sense of belonging to oneself. While the classic city vs. countryside is a bit clichèd, the dissonance of location with the internal works really well.
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    Links to the Advanced and Extension One courses

    My second-last paragraph throws in a mention of how the study of belonging/comparative texts/insertmorecrap has been developed upon as I have undertaken the wonders of 4U English. Err. Something like that. But seriously, it's a reflection on process rather than an effort to suck up to the BoS...
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    Last Line of your Major Work?

    'In the end, it was all you could bear.'
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    How Many Pages is Your Major Work?

    35 pages, 8180 words (because I'm sure they won't bother actually counting my words.)
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    1st and 2nd romantic generations

    I'd say that 1st-gen Romantics were vaguely more dramatic, though at the same time it's very difficult to distinguish between the two; there were quite a few outliers (as mentioned above.) In fact, attempting to define 'Romanticism' is hard enough; finding tangible differences between the first...
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