The Shakespeare Paper

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The Shakespeare Paper

• You have 45 minutes to answer the question on
  the play you have studied. It is worth 18 marks.
• There will be only one question on your play.
• Two extracts from your play will be printed on
  the paper. You should refer to both extracts in
  your answer.
• Plan your answer before starting to write.

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The Shakespeare task

• Each task will target one or more of the
  following
• character and motivation
• ideas, themes and issues
• the language of the text
• the text in performance.

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The Shakespeare task

• Plan your answer to focus on the question.
• Show your understanding of the play from the way
  you refer to both extracts.
• Include brief quotations as evidence for the
  points you make.
• Refer in detail to language and character.
• Remember that it is a play to be performed, not a
  story to be read.

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Examination tips

• 4 areas of focus character
• theme
• language
• performance
• 2 extracts must write about both Act I scene
  ii 189-321
• Act V scene i 1-134
• quotations relevant and embedded
• word choice use as many words related to the
  key words in the question as possible
• summaries use the grey boxes to help link
  extracts to question in first paragraph
• structure must make a point of view into a
  controlled argument

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Sort the assessment criteria in the right order,
from the sort of response which will get the
least marks to the sort of response that will
get the most marks.
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Can you remember the plot? Do the plot sort
exercise and check that you do.
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Key Extracts

• The first Key Extract begins just as Prospero has
  finished telling Miranda about how he and she
  came to be on the island together, and who is on
  the ship that has been caught in the tempest.
  Prospero has used his magic to put Miranda to
  sleep, and calls Ariel to him.
• All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I
  comeTo answer thy best pleasure - be't to
  fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn
  the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding
  taskAriel and all his quality.

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Second Key Extract

• The Second Key Extract opens the last act of the
  play. Prospero enters the scene dressed in his
  magician's robes, with Ariel by his side.
  Ariel describes what's been happening on the
  island. Some shipwreck survivors, including
  Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio and Gonzalo, are under
  Prospero's spell, by the cave. Alonso says he is
  sorry for what he has done wrong, and is full of
  worry and desperation. Gonzalo is full of grief
  over the pain of his king. Prospero, knows he
  can now right the wrongs that have been done to
  him. He tells Ariel he will be kind in his
  treatment of his enemies. He asks Ariel to fetch
  the shipwreck survivors

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• Step by step approach to answering the
  Shakespeare question
• Analyse the question. Underline key words. You
  MUST answer the question, but you have to
  understand it first.
• Question the question
• Check which part of both extracts you must use
• Brainstorm points you can make
• Find quotations which back up your points
• Plan which order you will put your points in.
• Write up your response using Pee.

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In these extracts, how does the language create a
magical atmosphere?
What type of language? What affect does it have?
Use both extracts
Magical actions, words, characters, effects
The feeling the audience experiences

• Question the question
• Use the summaries

In this scene, Prospero reminds Ariel of the
world that he was rescued from.
In this scene, Prospero prepares to re-enter the
civil world and relinquishes his magical powers.
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• Points to Make
• Prospero as master magician
• Magical creature Ariel, Caliban, sprites etc
• Spells
• Magical objects
• Magical setting musical island
• There are images of the elements fire, air and
  water, which show that Ariels power is connected
  with nature.
• Sound effects create dramatic image of the storm,
  emphasizing the wildness of the weather and
  Ariels power. Images of the coldness, darkness
  and harshness of nature show that the island can
  be a difficult and dangerous place to live.
• Images of classical gods and creatures to suggest
  that the island is surrounded by mythological
  beings.

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Some useful quotations I flamed
amazement Joves lightnings the most mighty
Neptune dreadful thunder-claps sulphurous
roaring the ooze of the salt deep the sharp
wind of the north, the veins o the
earthbaked with frost. Go make thyself like a
nymph o the sea. thy groans did make wolves
howl and penetrate the breasts of ever angry
bears
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Internal rhyme enhances the sense that Prospero
is conjuring
How to annotate
The Tempest Extracts annotated for language
Extract 1 Act I scene ii 302321 PROSPERO Go
make thyself Like a nymph othe sea. Be subject
to No sight but thine and mine invisible To
every eyeball else. Go take this shape, And
hither come int. Go! Hence, with diligence!
Assonance enhances the magical atmosphere
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The structure to use in an essay paragraph
1. Make a comment or point
2. Introduce a quotation to back up or prove
your point
3. Quotation
4. Discuss the quotation and comment on effect
of language, what the quotation reveals about the
character, how the actor should say their lines,
move etc.
Or, in a nutshell use POINTEVIDENCEEXPLANATI
ON Tip Think like a director. What points do
you want to get across?
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Assess the following response to our question
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In these extracts, how does the language create a
magical atmosphere?

• The language and the way the language is
  structured helps to create a magical atmosphere
  at key moments in the play. Here, where we have
  Prospero as master magician, with Ariel his
  slave, Prospero enjoys the creation of atmosphere
  through his use of language. And later, when
  Prospero is relinquishing his use of magic, he
  uses language to convey his appreciation of the
  potent art.
• In the first extract, references to the foul
  witch Sycorax with her mischiefs manifold and
  sorceries terrible, suggest that the world we
  are in is peopled by a range of fantastical
  creatures. The alliterative mischiefs manifold
  suggests Prosperos enjoyment of such a world as
  does the descriptive freckled whelp hag-born.
  The sound patterns of these words enhances the
  mysterious images that are conjured.
• In the second extract, Prospero indulges the
  romantic landscape he has inhabited for some
  time. The elves he converses with are referred
  to as chasers of Neptune, demi-puppets that
  make green sour ringlets by moonlight. The
  magic he has performed with the help of elves
  includes the noontime sun being bedimmed,
  calling up the mutinous winds and creating war
  between the green sea and the azured vault.
  The visions of an eclipse, wild winds and raging
  war between sea and sky create a powerful image
  for the audience. The references to the gods and
  nature place the visions in a romantic light and
  we understand how difficult it must be for
  Prospero to abjure.

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Write down 5 things to remember for the
Shakespeare paper