Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer.
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Question 1
It is the repeated displays of genuine love and affection between Tyrone and Mary that are the touchstone of the play’s tragedy’. How far and in what ways do you agree?
You might like to consider:-
- The differences between their words and their actions
- What prompts the passionate declarations and their aftermath (especially pp 72-73 and P92-97
- The ways in which their family backgrounds conditions their adult behaviour and attitudes
- The social contexts that have led to them
- All of which must limit the integrity and sincerity of what they say
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Question 2
Look again and in detail at Tyrone’s words to Edmund in Act 4, P130. ‘Yes, maybe life overdid the lesson for me………. To P131…. I know you a lot better now’. How exactly has the speech changed Edmund’s attitudes and feelings about his father here and in what respects has it changed yours?
Look carefully at both the language and structure of the speech.
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