👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for your final exams. In this lesson, pay attention to how each theme sentence is built and the moments that prove it. Then write your own essay in your own words. Just don’t copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
Naming the themes of Twelfth Night takes a few seconds. Love, disguise, class. Saying what the play says about each one takes longer, and that is what your essay needs.
So today we’ll go through the themes one at a time, with the moments and lines that carry each one, and turn them into arguments.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
tell a topic from a theme
give the main themes of the play, each with moments and exact lines that prove it
use the play’s background in a sentence, only where it helps
turn a theme into the view your essay argues
In the full lesson, we take each main theme in turn, then the background that helps. Then you’ll plan an essay on a practice question.
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Grab a pen. We’ll start with one word.