subjects i think st cassian’s chamber choir would take because i have an exam in 12 hours that i am not prepared for
i’m basing this on the australian (nsw) higher school certificate (hsc) in which year 12 students (final year of secondary school) have to take a minimum of 10 units to finish. most subjects are 2 units, with extensions being 1 unit. english is compulsory. the general structure for english and maths is standard (2u), advanced (also 2u), extension (3u, but it’s advanced plus extra content) and extension 2 (4u).
obligatory not canon because they are canadian and would not have those kinds of options
ocean: english extension 2, maths extension, chemistry, latin continuers, latin extension, and physics. that is 14 units meaning her exam schedule would suck. the 4th unit of english extension is a major work and the only subject without a state-wide exam but still. you can see the burnout, right? with this many extension units, she would have a bunch of offline classes (before school, lunch, and after school) and only a couple of study periods. she chose these because she’s good at maths, and wants to exploit scaling (basically if you’re good at hard subjects yo get a better score). latin makes her “stand out” and, hey, since it was offered at her catholic school she was going to take it.
constance: english advanced, maths extension, music 2 (composition elective), ancient history, and drama (writing elective). i see constance as someone who really loves writing and creating, being behind the scenes of all the magic that happens. she tried to take english extension to have a couple extra lessons with ocean but the afternoon classes clashed with her self-esteem. i think she also has a sort of curiosity about the world of the past which she can explore through ancient (i ann projecting). she seems like a major work kind of gal. and she doesn’t suck at maths so, why not?
noel: english extension, maths advanced, drama (monologue elective), modern history, history extension, latin continuers, latin extension. again, a lot of offlines and a couple of major works but afternoon classes mean he can romantically walk home in the dark. he wasn’t going to take latin extension but it was lyric poetry! how could he say no to that? he likes being the centre of attention and, trust me, year 12 drama gets dark. from what i’ve heard, english extension is very philosophical (and my school literally did waiting for godot so it’s fate). and okay he’s not tHat bad at maths, but he does constantly brag about dropping all sciences to ocean. his major work was about the abundance of gay erasure in historiography.
mischa: english standard, maths standard, modern history, ukrainian continuers (by distance), earth and environmental sciences. man is doing the bare minimum. so i’m not fully sure if ukrainian is offered but he would either take that or russian as an easy 95. i think he does know enough english to do standard (but i don’t know that much about eald so i didn’t put it down). took modern to be with noel, but he’d be damned if he took a major work.
ricky: english advanced, maths advanced, chemistry, biology, science extension, and visual arts. he would kill the english creative writing module and he’d get his major work done on time (*cough* noel). he seems to me to be very science minded and having a desire to conduct his own experiments.
penny: english advanced, maths advanced, chemistry, legal studies, economics. she wants to figure out how to both physically and metaphorically blow up society. she did regret choosing legal over business studies with the sheer amount of case studies but she did use them as something to run into ocean’s face.
so ocean says every story has a lesson, calling on more conservative moral values ("teen sex *thrust* kills"). how would she feel when the moral of king henry iv part i is "honour is bullshit, you can only be a good leader if you reject traditional notions of chivalry"? bc the way that's branded doesn't go with how she appears (like that is what she somewhat obscured externally believes in but overall internally disagree with). but hey, that's not me, that's shakespeare!
the flowers in mrs dalloway are a symbol of desire
"mrs dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself" is the first line of the book, and one of the only ones i know. here is what prompts her to have the existential crisis of being "mrs richard dalloway". her decision to buy the flowers herself is representative of how she is not being satisfied through her relationship with her husband and must instead find pleasure through the little independence she has (something something sapphic). additionally, the way sally picks a flower before they kiss, back when they were 18, illustrates how sally was the only romantic relationship she had that pleased her. the note in her memory (because the whole novel is the characters' perceptions of the past and present) that she did so is because she is unfulfilled in her marriage and is idealising that past. you would think this means that she can't find happiness with richard because she's a lesbian but through the textual conversation with the hours, in which clarissa vaughn is in a dried up relationship with her partner, sally, it just shows that clarissa sucks at relationships and idealises the past.
