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Need IOP Comparison Ideas between Pride & Prejudice and Like Water for Chocolate


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Hello everyone! For the IOP part of my syllabus, our class has selected the books Like Water for Chocolate and Pride & Prejudice. I basically came up with the topic of how effectively satire is used in P&P, but food plays an extremely important role in the book LWFC, and I need to find a way to link the both of them together so I can compare and contrast the writing style of the authors. Any suggestions? 

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A lot of us haven't read both novels. I've only read LWFC, so asking how the two novels relate is a tall task for us even if we've read both. We also can't give you ideas to use in your work; the community exists to try to guide you in the right direction. In order to do that, you have to show us work that you've done so you can help us help you.

 

I suggest you do what Emmi says- try to find a common theme between both novels. Don't try to force a comparison between the novels' major ideas if one simply can't be made. Start looking for common themes or symbols in both, or something that is repeated. Do the authors stress a certain idea or write in certain ways that can be compared? Maybe they write to suggest a common or contrasting perspective on X, Y or Z?

 

The comparative IOP SUCKS and the essay even more. My English teacher even said it's too difficult at our level to make any meaningful comparison. But just keep trying until you find something interesting worth explaining for 20-ish minutes.

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Thanks a lot, CkyBlue :) I went over the two books again and they both have a lot of other themes in common, one of them being romance, which I thought I could take. While in LWFC, its love at first sight and then forbidden love throughout the book, P&P has the protagonist and love interest disliking each other very much in the beginning, but the entire society is vying for them to fall in love and get married, in the most basic sense. This could be a good question, couldn't it?:

 

How does society influence the character relationships in both the works? 

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