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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Literature => Topic started by: Glasses on August 10, 2016, 11:07:02 pm
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Hey all,
So just out of curiosity, I thought we could start a poll to see what texts people are planning on writing on in the Exam this year.
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Heart of Darkness, and Antony and Cleopatra. Loved both of them and the other text my school is covering is Heaney's Open Ground - I can't work with poetry for the life of me, so my choices were pretty easy to make. ::)
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I was initially feeling very reluctant about studying poetry, but I will admit that it's grown on me a bit ::)
And yes, Heart of Darkness is amazing.
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And yes, Heart of Darkness is amazing.
Yeah, definitely one of my all time favs.
Pretty good spread of responses too, although I'm a little surprised that Heaney's in the lead. ::)
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Pretty good spread of responses too, although I'm a little surprised that Heaney's in the lead. ::)
Heaney's wicked as matee. Poetry and plays I feel are a lot easier to deal with visually, and poems are such a huge advantage, especially since Heaney covers pretty much similar topics across his poems, which makes for a good response.
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It looks like Heart of Darkness will be quite popular in its first year (back) on the text list!
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Heart of Darkness and Agamemnon!
(I think) (I hope) (Ah.)
But apparently some (ie. a former Lit teacher at my school) say it's not recommended to write on Agamemnon, as you may not execute it as well without touching on the full scope of the trilogy? (I'm not fully sure what that means/implies either).
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Heart of Darkness and Agamemnon!
(I think) (I hope) (Ah.)
But apparently some (ie. a former Lit teacher at my school) say it's not recommended to write on Agamemnon, as you may not execute it as well without touching on the full scope of the trilogy? (I'm not fully sure what that means/implies either).
Yeah Agamemnon is the first part of the Oresteia. The next one is the libation bearers, where the gist of it is that Orestes kills Clytemnestra for killing Agamemnon. Last one is the Eumenides ('soothed ones' IIRC?), where Orestes undergoes a democratic trial against the Furies to prove he is innocent/purified/whatever.
They're pretty short plays and available on the internet, you could probably knock them out in a few hours if you really wanted to, otherwise there's always Sparknotes ::)