English Advanced

PRINCE: Do not think it so, you shall not find it so;
And God forgive them that so much have swayed
Your majesty’s good thoughts away from me!
I will redeem all this on Percy’s head,
And in the closing of some glorious day
Be bold to tell you that I am your son,
When I will wear a garment all of blood,
And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
And that shall be the day, whene’er it lights,
That this same child of honour and renown,
This gallant Hotspur, this all-praisèd knight,
And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
For every honour sitting on his helm,
Would they were multitudes, and on my head
My shames redoubled. For the time will come
That I shall make this northern youth exchange
His glorious deeds for my indignities.
Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf,
And I will call him to so strict account
That he shall render every glory up,
Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.

In what ways does this excerpt reflect the concerns and aesthetic qualities of Shakespeare’s play?
In your response, make close reference to the excerpt and to your prescribed text.

Everything is being dismantled, reconstructed, recycled. To what end? For what purpose? To what extent is this statement true of the texts you have studied in this module? In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts that you have studied in Module A.
The prescribed texts are:
• Shakespearean Drama and Film – William Shakespeare, King Richard III and – Al Pacino, Looking for Richard
• Prose Fiction and Film – Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and – Stephen Daldry, The Hours
• Prose Fiction and Prose Fiction – Albert Camus, The Stranger and – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
• Poetry and Drama – John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry The prescribed poems are: * The Sunne Rising * The Apparition * A Valediction: forbidding mourning * This is my playes last scene * At the round earths imagin’d corners * If poysonous mineralls * Death be not proud * Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse and – Margaret Edson, W;t
• Poetry and Film – John Keats, The Complete Poems The prescribed poems are: * La Belle Dame sans Merci * To Autumn * Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art * Ode to a Nightingale * Ode on a Grecian Urn * When I have fears that I may cease to be * The Eve of St Agnes, XXIII and – Jane Campion, Bright Star
• Poetry and Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Ariel The prescribed poems are: * Daddy * Nick and the Candlestick * A Birthday Present * Lady Lazarus * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee Box and – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters The prescribed poems are: * Fulbright Scholars * The Shot * A Picture of Otto * Fever * Red * The Bee God
• Shakespearean Drama and Prose Fiction – William Shakespeare, The Tempest and – Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

Text 1 — Poem Explain how Boomerangs in a Thunderstorm represents an intense moment.

Text 2 — Prose fiction extract
Analyse how the experience of returning home has been shaped by the writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
An exploration of unreliability, ambiguity and contradiction.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of An Artist of the Floating World? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Almost anybody can be reformed, but not everybody can be redeemed.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Great Expectations? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Jane Austen, Emma
A world of triviality, awkwardness and miseducation.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Emma? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

David Malouf, Earth Hour
An innovative alignment of landscape, mind and memory.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Malouf’s poetry? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.
The prescribed poems are:

• Aquarius
• Radiance
• Ladybird
• A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84
• Eternal Moment at Poggia Madonna
• Towards Midnight
• Earth Hour
• Aquarius II

T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems
People are half-alive, hungry for any form of spiritual experience.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Eliot’s poetry? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.
The prescribed poems are:

• The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
• Preludes * Rhapsody on a Windy Night
• The Hollow Men
• Journey of the Magi

Text 3 — Prose fiction extract
How is metaphor used in Lines, Planes and Bodies to represent human experience?

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
Infantile, idiotically comic yet strangely moving.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Under Milk Wood? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Adults in children’s clothing, self-indulgent monsters.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of A Doll’s House? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Moments of idealised remembrance create a different notion of time.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Speak, Memory? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
History provides the momentum, memoir the emotion.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of The Hare with Amber Eyes? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Film - George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
No one changes; no one grows. A disturbing paralysis prevails.
To what extent does this view align with your understanding of Good Night, and Good Luck? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

Prose Fiction
Media
Ivan O’Mahoney, Go Back to Where You Came From
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in Go Back to Where You Came From invite you to reconsider your understanding of fear?
The prescribed episodes are:

• Series 1: Episodes 1, 2 and 3
  and
• The Response

Prose Fiction
Film
Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in Billy Elliot invite you to reconsider your understanding of commitment? Media

Prose Fiction
Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, I am Malala
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in I am Malala invite you to reconsider your understanding of strength?

Prose Fiction
Tim Winton, The Boy Behind the Curtain
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in The Boy Behind the Curtain invite you to reconsider your understanding of independence?
The prescribed chapters are:

• Havoc: A Life in Accidents
• Betsy
• Twice on Sundays
• The Wait and the Flow
• In the Shadow of the Hospital
• The Demon Shark
• Barefoot in the Temple of Art

Prose Fiction
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in The Crucible invite you to reconsider your understanding of love? Shakespearean Drama William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice To what extent does the exploration of human experience in The Merchant of Venice invite you to reconsider your understanding of deception? Nonfiction

Prose Fiction
Kenneth Slessor, Selected Poems
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in Slessor’s poetry invite you to reconsider your understanding of struggle?
The prescribed poems are:

• Wild Grapes
• Gulliver
• Out of Time
• Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden
• William Street
• Beach Burial Drama

Prose Fiction
Jane Harrison, Rainbow’s End, from Vivienne Cleven et al., Contemporary Indigenous Plays
To what extent does the exploration of human experience in Rainbow’s End invite you to reconsider your understanding of acceptance?