ABSTRACT
It remains true, however, that there is something the examiners want you to tell them. They want to be told, as any reader of literary criticism wants to be told, something new and interesting and unexpected about the text, or failing that something familiar expressed in a way that makes it new. You are much more likely to give them this experience if you say what you really think about the text, rather than what you think they think you ought to think about it.
