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Title: Successful Cambridge English Literature Personal Statement
Description: This was the personal statement which gained me an unconditional offer from Jesus College, Cambridge. This is appropriate for those in their final year of school who wish to apply for either Oxbridge, or an English Literature degree.
Description: This was the personal statement which gained me an unconditional offer from Jesus College, Cambridge. This is appropriate for those in their final year of school who wish to apply for either Oxbridge, or an English Literature degree.
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According to Shelley, there are 'two classes of mental action
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Literary study requires not only academic appreciation, but a
creative sensitivity fundamental to understanding its full aesthetic
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From July,
I spent ten weeks completing two condensed undergraduate modules on
Shakespeare and the Modern literature of Woolf, Joyce and Beckett, within
UC Berkeley's 'Summer Sessions'
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Having taken an open-minded approach and with no
university experience, receiving two As confirmed and enhanced a thirst for
further independent literary exploration
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This I hope to continue from January by
spending seven months in France teaching English, expanding my
understanding of French language and culture
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Gaining a broader linguistic and cultural
perspective on French literature such as Candide that I have read in
translation, will enhance my understanding of its purpose in general,
enabling me to take a broader perspective on the literature of other
cultures
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The contextual, ideological,
philosophical and subjective multiplicity within each meticulous character,
demonstrates the role of creativity in constructing the human condition
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In Middlemarch, Dorothea's goodness is an
aesthetic dimension transcending Victorian ideology and society's impact
upon plot, the emphasis on her simply 'being' evoking a human goodness
existing beyond reality
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', the vicar's lasting love for Tina
accords sublime status within his contextual normality
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To me, the concept of the sublime, gauged through
exposure to philosophical systems in A Level Philosophy and exploration of
works such as the Divine Comedy, gives basis to truths encapsulated
through literary form and content
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This I first explored through my EPQ
comparative study of the sublime in the work of Blake and the PreRaphaelites, for which I received 100% during my A2 year and this year I
hope to extend and challenge my understanding by completing Fine Art A2
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As Eliot states, 'Art is the nearest thing to life; it is
a mode of amplifying experience'
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Title: Successful Cambridge English Literature Personal Statement
Description: This was the personal statement which gained me an unconditional offer from Jesus College, Cambridge. This is appropriate for those in their final year of school who wish to apply for either Oxbridge, or an English Literature degree.
Description: This was the personal statement which gained me an unconditional offer from Jesus College, Cambridge. This is appropriate for those in their final year of school who wish to apply for either Oxbridge, or an English Literature degree.