I chose “ ‘In order to gain liberation women must use their feminine qualities or get rid of them’. See how it applies to one text and then to another through making mindmaps/notes.
#STAR WARS COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY TOPICS HOW TO#
Using an example I’m going to talk you through how to answer an essay question which requires comparison between texts:Ĭhoose a question. So if you are talking about Flamineo compared to Satan you can discuss why the language of both texts makes the two similar/different (the adjectives used to describe them, the settings they’re found in) and why the writers might have presented them differently (Satan is a Biblical character, one who many contemporary readers would have instantly seen as evil – even if a modern audience don’t - whereas Flamineo is a more ambiguous character). The best thing to do is use the context or language to support/argue with a comparison. For example, OCR A level English asks you to meet certain A0s or objectives in your work, so you have to spend a certain amount of time in your essay looking at the context of both texts and then in language analysis AS WELL AS in comparison between the texts.
It’s also important to remember to meet all the criteria for an exam/coursework essay. You could use a quote by a critic and see how it applies to one text and not to another.
through different stylistic choices or how the writers have different responses to them (perhaps due to their differing contexts). Sometimes it’s a good thing when texts are so different because ‘comparative’ doesn’t JUST mean ‘what do they do the same?’ although you can address this but also ‘what do they do differently?’ You could look at how themes such as love or war are treated differently i.e. The White Devil is a play so how would it be performed when it was published/now and how would this make a difference? Would we have sympathy with Flamineo because he talks directly to the audience? More sympathy than we might have for Satan in Paradise Lost?Ĭomparative essays raise a lot of questions about the texts and it’s difficult to know how you can include these in a sophisticated argument. So I would definitely talk about the fact that these are different genres. Yet any differences or similarities you can pick up on. At A-level I had to write a comparative essay on Webster’s The White Devil and Milton’s Paradise Lost, for example, which are completely different genres. It’s difficult to achieve a balance between texts and to know where to start comparing them – sometimes they can be completely different after all. How do I write a comparative essay for English?Ĭomparative essays can be quite daunting.
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