english advanced assessment help pls (1 Viewer)

[_carbonara]

hi

i need some help unpacking my assessment task for english adv - its on texts and human experiences and my text is the crucible, the related text i chose is animal farm.

"analyse how the crucible and one related text represent the ways individuals and communities respond to the challenges of being human"

i have to make a video essay and my teacher said only to do 2 body paragraphs due to time restrictions. i want to go into power and fear and obviously how the characters in both books respond to that but i dont really know how to start and what specifically to talk about. i also wanted to go into religion in a theocratic society in the crucible but i know animal farm doesnt specifically address religion rather the political ideologies so i have no idea how to link them together.

i am also yet to read animal farm!! helpful! i do have a pretty clear idea on what its about though

PLUS it doesnt help my case that ive lost all interest in english and the only essay writing i can do is for SOR, english essays are my absolute weakness
pls help

 

[PhoenixG1rl]

Power and fear are good topics to talk about, especially if you only have room for two body paragraphs - you could do one on power and one on fear. I think it would be hard to talk about religion in theocratic societies because animal farm doesn't really talk about it, so probably just go really in-depth into power and fear, but it depends on your word/time limit i guess. If you do find room for it, you could draw links between the context of both texts as allegories for the fear of communism in american society, but that may be too far outside the question to be helpful.

I'm also studying The Crucible for english, but my essay question is slightly different. I'm discussing the importance of characters' human experiences in forming individuals emotions and motives, focusing on power & corruption, and guilt & redemption as human experiences (not really sure how I'm going to link everything together, but I've got a week and a half, and an 1800 word count so I'll figure something out) I've chosen Psalm 51 as my related text cause the experiences are similar in both texts. I'm planning to contrast King David's sin and search for redemption with John Proctors', but now I have to actually get started.

Sorry if that wasn't very helpful, but I want to say I totally commiserate with you on losing all interest in english, it sucks that english has to count because I would definitely drop it if I could. Hang in there, and if you want to swap drafts to proof-read, I'd be more than happy to!