You will have a choice of two questions in the exam.
One will be on a theme (creation, knowledge, gender etc), the other will be on a technique (narrative, setting, doubling). You should be prepared to answer both, and also prepared to cover all for AOs.
So, here's a list of what to revise:
AO1: Argument and style.
- Practise past questions
- Brainstorm responses that use the socratic structure OR the 'define, accept, reject, project' approach.
AO2: Close analysis of language, structure and form
- Learn quotes for each theme AND technique.
- Colour coded flash cards, drawings, poems made from the quotes will all help
- Make sure you can get technical on some of those quotes: rhetorical devices (like Churchill's), semantic fields, alliteration, anaphora, etc.
AO3: Different readings
- Learn one critical quote per theme. Keep them short if you can, it's easier.
- Remember how different people have interpreted it - eg, Branagh versus Boyle. You could draw up a list of the differences between their portrayals of Victor and the monster, and similarities.
- Become a pro at Freudian and feminist readings
- Consider how you would improve on other people's views.
AO4: Be experts on context:
- Mary Shelley and her parents
- Romanticism and its conventions
- Gothic horror and its conventions
- Other books, paintings and ideas of the age.
One will be on a theme (creation, knowledge, gender etc), the other will be on a technique (narrative, setting, doubling). You should be prepared to answer both, and also prepared to cover all for AOs.
So, here's a list of what to revise:
AO1: Argument and style.
- Practise past questions
- Brainstorm responses that use the socratic structure OR the 'define, accept, reject, project' approach.
AO2: Close analysis of language, structure and form
- Learn quotes for each theme AND technique.
- Colour coded flash cards, drawings, poems made from the quotes will all help
- Make sure you can get technical on some of those quotes: rhetorical devices (like Churchill's), semantic fields, alliteration, anaphora, etc.
AO3: Different readings
- Learn one critical quote per theme. Keep them short if you can, it's easier.
- Remember how different people have interpreted it - eg, Branagh versus Boyle. You could draw up a list of the differences between their portrayals of Victor and the monster, and similarities.
- Become a pro at Freudian and feminist readings
- Consider how you would improve on other people's views.
AO4: Be experts on context:
- Mary Shelley and her parents
- Romanticism and its conventions
- Gothic horror and its conventions
- Other books, paintings and ideas of the age.
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