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Comparative Analysis
Individual Choice texts
Assignment
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Full Performance Standards
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Holiday scaffold (or Week 1)
Identifying key themes and ideas
Using this scaffold will make developing an essay question a lot easier, as most questions designed for the comparative will address theme(s). It is of course essential to be across key ideas and themes in a text regardless when you are analysing.
You will note that in the PDF there are sections with the heading, "Take Note." Please use these as guides for what you should be thinking and writing about. (You can use a word doc for your notes.)
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Identifying key narrative choices
Please use this scaffold to solidify your preparation for developing a question for your comparative study. Take notes where required. You will identify plot structure, and narrative voice in your texts.
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Building a question
Use the work completed above to inform your question.
Focus on theme through key characters and relationships.
In what ways do Darren Aronofsky and Damien Chazelle use the antagonists against the protagonists to convey the pursuit of perfectionism in their respective films, Black Swan and Whiplash?
Focus on theme through characterisation and setting.
What are the similarities and differences in the ways that the short-story Brokeback Mountain, and the film, A Single Man explore the freedom and repression of love and desire through characterisation and setting?
Focus on theme through creator choices.
How effectively do the texts The Trial by Franz Kafka, and Arkangel from Black Mirror, reflect and communicate the fears of their respective creators in terms of control and surveillance?
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