A2 COURSEWORK ESSAY PROPOSAL PRESENATION

Chosen texts for study

TEXT 1: (Core text)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Play by Tennesse Williams

Chosen texts for study

TEXT 2:

Lolita

Novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Chosen texts for study

TEXT 2:

Miss Julie

Play by August Strindberg

Desire

Destruction THEMES

Morality

Essay title

Using your knowledge of the contexts in which these texts were written and the reactions of

readers over time, compare the ways in which Tennessee Williams in ‘A Streetcar Named

Desire’, August Strindberg in ‘Miss Julie’ and Vladimir Nabokov in ‘Lolita’ present

transgressive behaviour of characters leading to their downfall.

Essay points

Point 1

Desire is the route cause of transgressive behaviour.

Point 2

Transgressive behaviour in the eyes of the main characters, leading to their blindness and subsequent collapse.

Point 3

Transgressive behaviour of men vs. Transgressive behaviour of women and their consequences

Accessing

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AO’s

Analysis of texts AO1

Analysis of texts AO4

Connections between texts

AO3

Using critical perspectives

AO3

Analysis of language

AO2

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