Year 12 Rationale for Emulative Coursework Before embarking on producing your c. 1000 word draft copy of your Hard-esque re-creative piece, fill in this plan/ rationale firstly. Only after I have approved it with you and signed this document, may you begin writing. When/What? What are you going to recount or describe? What happens before and after in the text? Does it presage future occurrences or echo earlier ones? Why? What would have been Hardy’s (usually social) purpose(s) for writing this passage? Who? Which characters appear? How will you distinguish them in their dialogue? Do they act in a manner consistent with their character? Which themes will you link your passage to? Injustice and Fate? Nature and Modernity? Social Criticism? Paganism and Christianity? Women? Be aware it is not enough to merely reference these themes obliquely, you must, as Hardy does, say something about them (indirectly, often through….) …How? What features of Hardy’s style will you use? How will diction choices be informed? Symbolism? Biblical references? Irony? Satire?