Examination Essay

English Language and Literature (Specification B) Unit 3 Talk in life and Literature 9. 00 am to 11. 00 am Thursday 24 June 2010 For this paper you moldinessiness(prenominal) have l a 12-page reaction book. ELLB3 Time allowed l 2 hours Instructions Use color ink or black ball-point pen. l Write the information required on the front of your coif book. The Examining Body for this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is ELLB3. l Answer bingle question from theatrical role A and Question 5 from Section B. l Do all rough work in your answer book.Cross through any work that you do non wishing to be discipli ask. l breeding The texts prescribed for this paper may non be gather inn into the examination room. l The maximum mark for this paper is 96. l All questions carry equal marks. l You will be marked on your ability to use good English organise information clearly use specialist mental lexicon where appropriate. l l Advice You are recommended to overlook unity hour on Sect ion A and one hour on Section B, including planning. H/Jun10/ELLB3 ELLB3 2 Section A Talk in Life and Literature Answer one question from Section A and Question 5 in Section B (printed on page 10).The set plays for this unit are Hamlet, The Rivals, A Streetcar Named Desire and Translations. record the passage from the play you have studied and answer the question related to it. NB the questions are dissimilar on apiece play. EIThER Question 1 0 1 Hamlet William Shakespeare look for the slipway in which Shakespeare presents the theme of falseness in this passage. In your answer you must(prenominal) consider how the playwright uses literary, linguistic and rhetorical devices and conventions to create specific prominent effects. Where is Polonius? In heaven. Send thither to see.If your messenger find him not there, seek him ithother place yourself. just now if indeed you find him not inwardly this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. king (to at tendants) Go seek him there. hamlet A will stay till you come. Exeunt attendants king hamlet king Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety, Which we do tender as we dearly grieve For that which metre hast do, must send thee hence With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself.The sputter is ready and the wind at help, Thassociates tend, and everything is bent For England. amlet For England? king Ay, Hamlet. hamlet Good. king So is it, if one thousand knewest our purposes. hamlet I see a cherub that sees them. besides come, for England Farewell, dear mother. king Thy loving father, Hamlet. hamlet My mother. begetter and mother is man and wife man and wife is one flesh and so, my mother. Come, Exit for England king keep an eye on him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard. Delay it not. Ill have him hence tonight. Away For everything is sealed and jadee That else leans on the affair. Pray you make haste. Exeunt all but the King H/Jun10/ELLB3 3And, England, if my love thou h oldest at aught As my great power thereof may give thee sense, Since yet thy scar looks raw and red After the Danish sword, and thy free awe Pays homage to us thou mayst not coldly set Our s everyplaceeign process, which imports at full, By letters congruing to that effect, The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England. For corresponding the hectic in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me. Till I hunch tis get intoe, Howeer my haps, my joys were neer begun. Exit Turn over for the next question Turn over H/Jun10/ELLB3 UoR Question 2 0 2The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan Explore the ways in which Sheridan presents father-son relations in this passage. In your answer you must consider how the playwright uses literary, linguistic and rhetorical devices and conventions to create specific dramatic effects. sir anthony And it is my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. I have resolved, therefore, to fix you at once in a noble independence. Sir, you r kindness overpowers me. Such beneficence makes the gratitude of reason more lively than the sensations even of filial affection.I am glad you are so sensible of my attention and you shall be master of a large estate in a fewer weeks. Let my future life, sir, speak my gratitude I cannot express the sense I have of your munificence. Yet, sir, I take for granted you would not wish me to quit the army? O, that shall be as your wife chooses. My wife, sir Ay, ay, take root that between you settle that between you. A wife, sir, did you say? Ay, a wife. Why did not I mention her before? non a word of her, sir. Odso I mustnt forget her though. Yes, Jack, the independence I was talking of is by a marriage.The fortune is saddled with a wife but I suppose that makes no difference? Sir Sir You stupefy me Why, what the devils the matter with the fool? fairish now you were all gratitude and duty. I was, sir you talked to me of independence and a fortune, but not a word of a wife. Why wh at difference does that make? Ods life, sir If you have the estate, you must take it with the livestock on it, as it stands. secure sir anthony commanding sir anthony absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony H/Jun10/ELLB3 5 absoluteIf my happiness is to be the price, I must beg leave to decline the purchase. Pray, sir, who is the lady? Whats that to you, sir? Come, give me your promise to love and to marry her directly. Sure, sir, this is not very reasonable, to summon my affections for a lady I know nothing of sir anthony absolute sir anthony I am sure, sir, tis more unreasonable in you to object to a lady you know nothing of. Then, sir, I must tell you plainly, that my inclinations are fixed on another. Sir, my heart is engaged to an angel. absolute sir anthony Then pray let it send an salvage.It is very sorry but business prevents its waiting on her. But my vows are promise to her. Let her foreclose, Jack let her foreclose. They are not worth redeeming. Besides, you have the angels vows in exchange, I suppose so there can be no loss there. You must excuse me, sir, if I tell you, once for all, that in this point I cannot succeed you. Harkee Jack. I have heard you for some time with patience. I have been cool, quite cool but take care. You know I am compliance itself when I am not thwarted no one more easily led when I have my declare way but dont put me in a frenzySir, I must repeat it in this, I cannot obey you Now, damn me, if ever I call you Jack again while I live absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony absolute sir anthony Turn over for the next question Turn over H/Jun10/ELLB3 U 6 oR Question 3 0 3 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Explore the ways in which Williams presents the relationship between the sisters in this passage. In your answer you must consider how the playwright uses literary, linguistic and rhetorical devices and conventions to create specific dramatic effects. This extract is not reproduced here due to third-party secure constraints.H/Jun10/ELLB3Turn over for the next question Turn over H/Jun10/ELLB3 UoR Question 4 0 4 Translations Brian Friel Explore the ways in which Friel presents love and courtship in this passage. In your answer you must consider how the playwright uses literary, linguistic and rhetorical devices and conventions to create specific dramatic effects. Yolland Maire. She still moves away. Maire Chatach. She still moves away. roller na hAbhann? (He says the name softly, almost privately, very tentatively, as if he were searching for a sound she exponent respond to. He tries again. ) Druim Dubh? Maire stops.She is listening. Yolland is encouraged. Poll na gCaorach. Lis Maol. Maire turns towards him. Lis na nGall. Maire Lis na nGradh. They are now facing each other and begin moving almost imperceptibly towards one another. Carraig an Phoill. Yolland Carraig na Ri. Loch na nEan. Maire Loch an Iubhair. Machair e Buidhe. Yolland Machaire Mor. Cnoc na Mona. Maire Cnoc na nGabhar. Yolland Mullach. Maire Port. Yolland Tor. Maire Lag. She holds out her hands to Yolland. He takes them. Each now speaks almost to himself/herself. Yolland I wish to God you could examine me. Maire Soft hands a gentlemans hands.Yolland Because if you could understand me I could tell you how I spend my days either thinking of you or gazing up at your house in the hope that youll bug out even for a second. Maire Every evening you walk by yourself along the Tra Bhan and every morning you wash away yourself in front of your tent. H/Jun10/ELLB3 9 Yolland I would tell you how beautiful you are, curlyheaded Maire. I would so analogous to tell you how beautiful you are. Maire Your arms are long and thin and the skin on your shoulders is very white. Yolland I would tell you Maire Dont stop I know what youre saying.Yolland I would tell you how I want to be here to live here always with you always, always. Maire Alwa ys? What is that word always? Yolland Yes-yes always. Maire Youre trembling. Yolland Yes, Im trembling because of you. Maire Im trembling, too. (She holds his face in her hand. ) Yolland Ive made up my mind Maire Shhhh. Yolland Im not firing to leave here Maire Shhh listen to me. I want you, too, soldier. Yolland Dont stop I know what youre saying. Maire I want to live with you anyplace anywhere at all always always. Yolland Always? What is that word always?Maire Take me away with you, George. oddity of Section A Turn over for Section B Turn over H/Jun10/ELLB3 U 10 Section B Talk in Life and Literature Question 5 0 5 Text A is an extract from Educating Rita (190), a play by Willy Russell set in a northern university. Frank is a middle-aged lecturer, and Rita his Open University student. She has just had an angry quarrel with her husband, who despises her longing for an education. She is ill at ease(p) to know what Frank thinks about her essay on Macbeth. Text B is part of a system of a university tutorial. The tutor is discussing Julies essay with her.Compare the two texts, commenting on the ways in which they glitter the differences and similarities between talk in life and talk in literature. In your answer you must look for the relationship between context, purpose and audience and the ways in which speakers attitudes and values are conveyed. End of Questions H/Jun10/ELLB3 11 Text A (breaking away from him) Its all right Ill be O. K. Just give me a minute. (She dries her eyes. ) What was me Macbeth essay like. open Oh sod Macbeth. rita Why? frank Rita rita No, come on, come on, I want y to tell me what y thought about it. rank In the circumstances rita (going and abatement her bag on the back of the swivel chair) It doesnt matter, it doesnt in the circumstances I need to go on, to talk about it an do it. What was it like. I told y it was no good. Is it really useless? frank sits in the chair. frank (sighing) I I really dont know what t o say. rita Well get a line an think of somethin. Go on. I dont mind if y tell me it was rubbish. I dont want pity, Frank. Was it rubbish? frank No, no. Its not rubbish.Its a all in all honest, passionate account of your reaction to a play. Its an unashamedly emotional statement about a certain experience. ita Sentimental? frank No. Its too honest for that. Its almost erm moving. But in terms of what youre asking me to teach you of passing exams Oh, God, you see, I dont rita avow it, go on, say it frank In those terms its worthless. It shouldnt be, but it is in its own terms its its wonderful. rita (confronting him across the desk) Its worthless You said.An if its worthless youve got to tell me because I wanna write essays like those on there. (She points to the essays on the desk. ) I wanna know, an pass exams like they do. frank But if youre going to write this sort of stuff youre going to have to change. ita All right. Tell me how to do it. frank (getting up) But I dont kn ow if I want to tell you, Rita, I dont know that I want to teach you. (He moves towards the desk. ) What you already have is valuable. rita Valuable? Whats valuable? The only thing I value is here, comin here once a week. frank But, dont you see, if youre going to write this sort of thing (He indicates the pile of essays. ) to pass examinations, youre going to have to suppress, perhaps even abandon your uniqueness. Im going to have to change you. rita But dont you realize, I want to change