lim jason

BA with Dip Ed (PE), BA (hons) English Literature
SPE, NIE, NTU


 

 
 

 
 


 


SAMPLE ESSAYS


"Identity is a key issue for those positioned between cultures, or in diverse and changing cultures." Discuss the ways in which 'Identity' is explored in the texts you have studied.

 

 

 "Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness." (Orlando 132-3). Discuss how Woolf explores the social construction of gender in either Orlando or Mrs Dalloway.
Assess the role and importance of a sense of place in Coleridge's poetry.
"If anyone wants to fit me into a tradition, it is tradition-in-the-making they will have to settle for" (Nayantara Sahgal). How does Rich Like Us respond to the notion of an Indian tradition, and to the uses of tradition in the present?

 

 How do Michele Barrett's and Helene Cixous' views on women's writing differ? Illustrate their disagreements through application of their ideas to a single work of literature, and indicate whose arguments you find most convincing.