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This response was written for an exam paper I wrote myself (as there are only currently 2 available AQA papers for this module, the Specimen one and the January 2010 one).
The extracts are:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Extract where Connie meets Mellors at the chicken coop. From:
‘Connie crouched in front of the last coop’ to ‘‘You lie there,’ he said softly, and he shut the door, so that it was dark, quite dark.’
Romeo & Juliet
Extract from Act 1 scene 5. From:
ROMEO [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand…
to
That I must love a loathed enemy.
As Shakespeare said in Twelfth Night, ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting’. This idea is also expressed by Shakespeare in the given extract of his play Romeo and Juliet and Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Both authors use sexual innuendos to present the development of sexual tension between the lovers upon their first meetings with one another – this is also done in Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Hartley’s novel The Go-Between and Keats’ poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the idea that the love affair between Connie and Mellors is forbidden is immediately symbolised through the fact that the book was banned when it was first written in 1928 and was not legally published...
