Sunday, 8 November 2009

Wrong subject..

I wrote a Scholarship English essay the other week. Normally, when my teacher likes what I'm writing, she puts little red ticks about every second line. This essay, there were only three little red ticks, all in the introduction. "Amdrew Motion's reflection of literature as a world that readers recognise, but is more disturbed than they realise, fits perfectly with the dystopian texts of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek sums up this literature as "reality as more than what it already is." Dystopian texts reflect the clear political and social issues readers recognise, taking them to their nightmarish conclusion in the context of "a world gone mad." Readers and filmgoers will often cement their own fears about the future through this all-too-similar world they see." After the intro, the ticks disappeared, until the red penned comments on the last page. "This is a superb essay. However it is a superb Media Studies essay, rather than a superb English one. Remember, in English essays, that every comment must be grounded in critical and specific analysis of the text itself, rather than the theory surrounding its construction. Lol. Wrong subject Sonya....

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