Devil's Wife - good essay questions

[mslewis]

Hi again

"The Devil's Wife" would be an ideal poem for a question asking about:

- a persona created e.g. a sinister person
- a theme: the nature and source of evil
- the significance of the passage of time i.e. narrator's changing emotions throughout her life but unchanged stance on her crimes and her own responsibility.
- a change in mood e.g. sinister to emotionally charged
- a sinister tone

Ms L

[kellyann]

were we meant to redraft this essay over the holidays?

[Ms Lewis]

Hi again Kellyann,

No, these quotes are for everyone's use when revising. You're welcome to redraft the essay and I'll happily mark it but you don't need to. At this stage, it's more important to get experience answering a range of different essay questions on a text than improving a subtle essay. What you could do, if you want to try to improve your grade, is redraft one paragraph focusing on improving analysis and I could mark that and indicate how much better your grade would be if you'd carried on like that.

Ms L