In Austen's novel Emma and in Amerling's film Clueless, we watch two young women, fixated on being social matchmakers, ironically coming to a realisation that meeting and connecting with a partner does in fact call for genuine and heartfelt honesty.
Emma and Cher both play a game where they hold the pieces. The game becomes unpredictable when they are no longer controlling events but are themselves caught up in the matchmaking game, their hearts being drawn into what was for them a passionless arena.
In short, both works juxtapose pretentious social posturing against the more sincere concern of genuine love.
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True History of the Kelly Gang
What is history? How do we know if a media form is accurately communicating historical truth?
The title of Carey's book True History of the Kelly Gang, clearly claims historical veracity (truth). It is, however, an artificial construction. A study of this work should focus on how this artificial history is constructed to seem real or 'true'. In turn, this idea suggests that all history then is in fact artificial and therefore subjective.
The title of Carey's book True History of the Kelly Gang, clearly claims historical veracity (truth). It is, however, an artificial construction. A study of this work should focus on how this artificial history is constructed to seem real or 'true'. In turn, this idea suggests that all history then is in fact artificial and therefore subjective.
Memorising your essay for the exam: a bad idea!!
A belief has emerged amongst HSC students that to get a good grade in English all you have to do is write one good essay and then ' tweak it' just to fit the question in the paper.
This is not a good idea.
Essays are unique responses to questions and examiners expect you to respond to the terms of the question. A pre-written essay is a response to one question only. What if the question is different? This is like believing that if you remember the numbers to some equations in a past exam, then the same number sequences will appear in you next exam. Clearly, this is not the case.
What you can and should memorise is the PLOT structure - what happens, when and where - and how the how the CHARACTERS behave in these situations. If you are familiar with the work then you can begin to properly respond to the question with your opinion of the work. You are asked about THEMES usually, which are the concerns or meaning of the work.
An essay is not a mobile phone where you can just change the settings expecting it to fall into a different pattern. Words have to be assembled to create meaning. That is your task in the English exam.
This is not a good idea.
Essays are unique responses to questions and examiners expect you to respond to the terms of the question. A pre-written essay is a response to one question only. What if the question is different? This is like believing that if you remember the numbers to some equations in a past exam, then the same number sequences will appear in you next exam. Clearly, this is not the case.
What you can and should memorise is the PLOT structure - what happens, when and where - and how the how the CHARACTERS behave in these situations. If you are familiar with the work then you can begin to properly respond to the question with your opinion of the work. You are asked about THEMES usually, which are the concerns or meaning of the work.
An essay is not a mobile phone where you can just change the settings expecting it to fall into a different pattern. Words have to be assembled to create meaning. That is your task in the English exam.
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