Scholarship Section C

Section C will require the exploration of issues in literature. You need to be able to integrate your discussion to demonstrate a sustained critical response across a range of texts.

You will have a range of questions to choose from in this section. The questions are designed to test your ability to present a reasoned and organised argument on a literary topic for which you have not been explicitly prepared, but which provide occasion for a display of the range and depth of your reading as a student of English.

Try to answer the following Scholarship question:

“If students are to see literature as capable of informing them about any of the aspects of life, they must become convinced that literature is more than just an historical record: that it can in fact be a force for revolutionary change.”
Discuss.

Behind the quotation lies the very basic question “why do we read and study literature?” You need to be able to answer this in various pertinent and thoughtful ways. Really focus on “aspects of life” and do not see “revolutionary change” as the most promising phrase. Try to write 1000 to 1500 words.

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