A2 English Literature Coursework Questions

• Beginning with an examination of two extracts from Cat's Eye and Fugitive Pieces, analyse and evaluate the authors' treatment of time in these two novels.

• "Rather than believing that 'to forgive is to forget' both Anne Michaels and Margaret Atwood may be said to argue that to forgive is to remember." Discuss this statment with close reference to Cat's Eye and Fugitive Pieces.

• Discuss the authors' use of scientific ideas in the development of key themes in Cat's Eye and Fugitive Pieces.

• Discuss the idea of displacement in Cat's Eye and Fugitive Pieces

• "We were a vine and a fence but who was the vine? We would both have answered differently." Discuss the authors' treatment of significant relationships in Cat's Eye and Fugitive Pieces.