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How Excalibur Translates Tennyson's King Arthur to the Big Screen

This compare and contrast considers how to assess a successful film adaptation of a literary work. The student analyzes how John Boorman's Excalibur is visually and symbolically informed by Tennyson's "The Passing of Arthur" from Idylls of the King .
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Bridget's feedback:

"You examine a number of interesting details in lining up the two texts (the film and the poem), and your use of film and art theory enhances your analysis and develops the paper's ethos. Overall, your discussion is compelling and supported by specific details, and the writing shows purpose.

In terms of next steps, I recommend focusing on transitions and flow. This is a component of organization, which plays a big part in how the reader experiences the ideas as single points and as part of the broader discussion. Moving from sentence to sentence and from one paragraph to the next should be smoothed out so the reader knows if something is building up on the previous idea or switching gears. An example of this is in the first paragraph, where the specific texts are introduced in the first sentence. This is helpful to the reader, and you follow this up with an important point about the overall cultural impact of Arthur adaptations. However, the list of specific examples "interrupts" the discussion to an extent, and the reader doesn't quite realize when the discussion has returned to the main idea. Signposting language and similar nudges can be used to direct the reader's understanding and attention."

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