THE QUESTION: 4. Critically discuss how Woolf explores the relationship between major events and the everyday in To the Lighthouse. Focus on a compared major concepts linked to an everyday furniture or object. : The focus of your essay should be Woolf’s novel, that is the primary text and the question about. The two secondary texts you use should be used in such a way so as to develop and advance your argument about the novel in relation to the question. Everyday Life and Cultural Theory by Ben Highmore’s essay is one secondary reading and the other one To the Lighthouse by David Bradshaw focuses on (commentary about objects). It isn’t so much a case of how many times you engage with secondary texts, it is that you engage with them (utilise them) in useful and meaningful ways. However, sourcing appropriate secondary material is part of the task too. Write an essay in response to Virginia Woolfs novel To the Lighthouse. It must include: > Develop a clear and well-supported ARGUMENT and expand it in response to the topic. > In the introduction identify the key argument or arguments you will be addressing in the essay. And identify the examples you will use to exemplify the concepts. > Offer detailed close readings of selected passages from the novel to support your analysis and argument: it is up to you to select relevant passages for close reading as appropriate to the topic. > Engage with relevant ideas from two secondary sources in your essay: these can include one or more of the theoretical essays studied in Ben Highmores and David Bradshaw texts. ALL TEXTS TO USE FOR THIS ESSAY IS PROVIDED BELOW. > MUST ALSO USE VISUAL LANGUAGE IN THE ESSAY SUCH AS A TONE, METAPHOR, ALLEGORY, RHYME, PERSONFICATION, SMILE, ALLTERATION (ETC). > Use a topic sentence in each paragraph, for example Woolf examines. > Use different words from the exact question such as the major events to view your engaging with the question. Some feedback I would like to provide you from the past papers you have provided me. If you can address some of these recommendations for this essay, I’m confident that you will provide me with an outstanding paper once again. 1. First, the response should not lack a clear principle to order and structure it. The way to do this is to follow Woolfs and the form of the question go back to the question every time you make a claim. The best way to do that is through topic sentences or explanatory statements, that re-use the language of the question, itself. This will give your response more clarity and force. 2. Second, you should use the terms of the question to make a judgement in each case. This will then give you a principle to order the paper, by organising the content in these terms, and then pursuing them sequentially, in the order deemed by the question.
