This document provides guidance on writing whole text essays and character analyses for literary works. It includes potential essay questions on individual characters, their relationships, themes, and key scenes. It also offers advice on structuring essays, such as opening paragraphs that address the question, developing character and theme analyses, and conclusions that revisit the original question.

1. Whole text
questions
L.O: To evaluate the markscheme and plan
whole text responses

2. Essays on individual
characters
• What do you think of .......and the way s/he is presented to the
audience?
• In your opinion who had the greatest influence on....?
• Show how......is affected by.........
• How is the character of.... Important to the novel as a whole?

3. • Show how and why the character of....... Changes in the
novel.
• To what extent is...... responsible for.....
• Imagine you are .....Write down your thoughts and feelings
when.......

4. • Write about the relationship between..... and ..... and how it
is presented.
• How and why does the relationship between ..... and ....
change in the novel?
• Discuss why the friendship of ....... and .... Is so important in
the novel.
Questions on relationships

5. Questions on themes, effect,
key scenes and setting.
• How is the ...... presented in ….?
• What is the importance of the novel’s title?
• How is the event of.....important to the theme of
book?
• What is the importance of [PLACE}.....to the novel?

6. Opening paragraph
• Address the terms in the question [setting, prejudice,
power]
• Try to address wider issues about the novel or play
[themes, specific contexts, key issues but not down-
loading – it must be relevant]
• Set up your viewpoint you intend to prove

7. ‘Pride and Prejudice’:
wider issues
Relationships
• Working title ‘First
Impressions’
• Position of women
unable to inherit
• Role of marriage at the
time
Key areas affecting responses
• Austen’s use of irony
• Not seeing inside Mr.
Darcy’s head
• Austen’s use of dialogue
• People and locations

8. ‘Blood Brothers’: wider
issues
Relationships
• Nature v’s nurture
• Social class
• Role of family
Key areas affecting responses
• Russell’s use of song
• Perspective
• Shifts in time
• Writer’s purpose

9. Developing the essay
Character
• Name/appearance
• Key scenes and their
role within them
• Things said by and said
about
• Key images or words
• Connection with themes
Themes
• Characters who
contribute
• Key scenes which
illustrate
• Key images or words
associated
• Viewpoint expressed

10. Conclusion
• Go back to the question
• Sum up your final answer
• Overall......
• In conclusion