Significance in the Quote - Drama And Theatre Studies - Exams, Exams of Literature

Download Significance in the Quote - Drama And Theatre Studies - Exams and more Exams Literature in PDF only on Docsity! Semester 1 Examinations 2011 / 2012 Exam Code(s) 3BA1, 4BA4, 4BCW1, 4BFS1, 4BHR1, 4BIS1, 4BTP1, 4BWM1 Exam(s) 3rd Arts, 4th Arts Module Code(s) EN385 Module(s) Drama & Theatre Studies Paper No. I External Examiner(s) Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Internal Examiner(s) Professor S. Ryder *Dr Lionel Pilkington Dr Irina Ruppo-Malone Instructions: There are TWO sections. Students must answer BOTH sections. Section 1 carries 40 marks and Section 2 carries 60 marks. Duration 2hrs No. of Pages 3 Discipline(s) English Requirements None TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS There are TWO sections. Students must answer BOTH sections. Section 1 carries 40 marks and Section 2 carries 60 marks. SECTION 1 Choose one of the following quotations, and (for 10 marks each) (1) identify the location of the quote in the play from which it is taken; (2) identify the speaker(s); (3) indicate two points of significance in the quote [this could be a theme, pattern of imagery, key character trait or a feature of dramaturgy] and (4) identify one moment at another stage in the play where the main idea of this quote is also affirmed or recalled. Extract 1: … You massacred a lot and scorched all their lands. His Majesty used to say they were going to die one day, anyway. That was for reasons of State You’re dying too because of your state. But I am the State. And what a state the poor man’s in! Extract 2 —Burning their own parents in the sacred orchard. Burning them alive and laughing —Or burying them alive. Burying them alive up to their necks in the fertile earth, then smashing their skulls open with a spade. They have a name for this. —’The flower’ —It’s called, that’s right, ‘the flower’. Silence And it’s all there in her face. —It’s what? —All there. All there in her face. —In Anya’s face. We don’t need words. She’s beyond words. Her mouth, in fact her mouth trembles but no words come. —The inadequacy of words. —The terrifying, yes, inadequacy of words as she stands by a tree covered in delicate white petals. PTO