Aspects of tragedy common mistakes

Common mistakes

• Tragic language and audience response literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Evaluate how tragedy may move an audience through pity and fear towards understanding of the human condition. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Shakespeare tragedy choices literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Identify Othello and King Lear as the official Shakespeare choices for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Shakespeare tragedy choices literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Study the selected Shakespeare play through tragic genre, all five assessment objectives and the Paper 1 question forms. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• The Great Gatsby literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Identify The Great Gatsby as an official further-text option for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• The Great Gatsby literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Study the text through tragic genre and connect it with the selected drama text. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Identify Tess of the D'Urbervilles as an official pre-1900 further-text option for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Study the text through tragic genre and connect it with the selected drama text. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Keats tragedy poems literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Identify the listed Keats poems as an official pre-1900 poetry option for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Keats tragedy poems literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Study how the selected poems develop and vary tragic aspects across poetry. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Death of a Salesman literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Identify Death of a Salesman as an official drama option for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.