Theme 3: Barriers / Obstacles Notes

Guide: How To Master Paper 2

IB English HL/SL Paper 2 Sample Papers and Exemplar Responses

Theme 1: Control

Theme 2: Ethics / Morality

Theme 4: Appearance vs. Reality

Theme 5: Time

Theme 6: Gender / Control over Women

Theme 7: Alienation / Isolation

Theme 8: Cultural Heritage / Belonging

Theme 9: Generations / Youth vs Age

Persepolis

A Doll's House

A Streetcar Named Desire

A View from the Bridge

Dune

Hamlet

David and Goliath

Hamilton

Julius Caesar

Keeping it from Harold

King Lear

Killers of the flower moon

Lolita

Lamb to the slaughter

Looking for Alaska

Macbeth

Master Harold and the Boys

Moby Dick

Of Mice and Men

Once

Othello

Pachinko

Pride and Prejudice

Romeo and Juliet

Saint Joan

The Catcher in the Rye

The Handmaid's Tale

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hobbit

Through the looking glass

To Kill a Mockingbird

V for Vendetta

The Three Musketeers