Comparative Analysis Coursework Questions

1500 – 2000 words

Compare and contrast the ways in which Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal’ and X in X use (a range of) narrative techniques to…

…explore the effects/(emotional)impact of traumatic early life experiences (on an individual)

…give (the reader) an insight in to a troubled mind

…critique society/the societies they depict

…critique treatment of minorities in the societies they depict

…explore the position of marginalised social groups/groups marginalised by society

…depict an alienated individual

…show how characters are affected by the past

…portray the negative feelings of the protagonists in the texts