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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: Felicity Wishes on October 28, 2012, 12:20:18 pm
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"Cosi is a play about the triumph of Fantasy over reality"
The illusion of theatre is created through Louis Nowra’s 1971 play, ‘Cosi’, creating a world that is as ‘far away from this gloomy asylum as possible’ but the closure of the play brings the audience back to reality, suggesting that although fantasy can provide recovery, we must emerge and face the real world eventually to succeed. This idea is reinforced through Doug’s brutally honest approach to life, allowing Nowra to propose that by blatantly dealing with the truth that is mental illness, the lives of all may be improved. Thus, demonstrating the notion that ‘Cosi’ provides us with the benefits of delusion but ultimately recommends that we must confront actuality.
I can't tell online.. but it takes up more than half a page in handwriting. Is this a problem or will the examiners take into consideration that my handwriting is huge and therefore my intro looks massive? Thanks. :)
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Length looks fine. I doubt they'd give a damn how many pages you take up - if they were concerned about that they'd give us more lines per page and wouldn't have such huge borders on the exam booklets.
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On VCAA paper, my intro was nearly a full page haha. Your length looks fine.
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You'll be fine, it's ~100 words.
Mine are typically ~150-200; and take up half to three-quarters of the page.
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Thanks all~!
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What do you guys think of writing a pretty short and succinct intro so that I can kinda get straight into the meat of the essay? I've experimented with both longer and shorter introductions and I think it helps avoid sounding too convoluted but do you think there is really anything that I am missing out on by omitting a lengthy intro?
I'm talking like 50-60 words, so about 6-7 lines (on regular paper, not sure on VCAA booklets).
EDIT: Now that I think about it, my text response introductions are about the same length as Lipton's. My question still holds though, but perhaps in relation to Context rather than TR.