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Examples of HL Essay Questions

Based on the 7 Concepts


How does Ralph Ellison, in his novel Invisible Man, succeed in
making his narrator a convincing spokesperson for the concerns
Identity of African-Americans in the 20th century?
How does Robert Capa represent post-Second World War
France to qualify/exemplify the brutalities of the French
population on former Nazi collaborators in La Femme Tondue?
Culture (Language A: language and literature only)
How do Mario Testino’s portraits manage to convey the
personalities of those portrayed in original ways? (Language A:
Creativity language and literature only)
Which view of love does Matt Groening convey in Love is Hell?
(Language A: language and literature only)
Communication
In what ways does The Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery
and Imagination offer a transformative re-reading of Edgar Allan
Transformation Poe’s tales?
How does Mary Shelley’s protagonist in Frankenstein use the
motif of dangerous knowledge to show the perspective of fear
and anxiety of excesses in scientific enterprise in early 19th
Perspective century Europe?
Through what means does Juan Rulfo successfully convey the
representation of realistic and non-realistic characters and
Representation situations in Pedro Páramo?

Based on other ideas


However, using the seven concepts is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. Other
literary focuses, theoretical approaches or areas of exploration could lead to lines of
inquiry such as:
How does F. Scott Fitzgerald foreshadow how Gatsby’s
unnatural attachment to the past causes his downfall in The
Foreshadowing Great Gatsby?
In what ways would Marxist theory about the stratification of
wealth and power explain the violence that runs through the
action of the novel A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Marxist Theory García Márquez?
To what extent was the characterization of the protagonist in
Patrick Süskind´s Perfume influenced by Franz Kafka´s The
Characterization Metamorphosis?
Other Examples from Exemplars

 To what extent does Don DeLillo’s White Noise criticise postmodern American culture in the
1980s?
 How does the representation of the protagonist in Legally Blonde challenge female stereotypes
throughout the film?
 How do the methods used by director Steven Chbosky effectively foreshadow Charlie’s cause of
trauma in the film Perks of Being a Wallflower?
 In his essays, what narrative and language structures does George Monbiot use to challenge
power to bring about ‘positive’ change and a ‘better’ world?

To what extent?

In what ways?

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