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Paper 2 — Modules

General • Reading time – 5 minutes

Instructions • Working time – 2 hours
• Write using black pen

Section I – 20 marks (pages 2–5)

Total marks:
• Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2
60
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Section II – 20 marks (pages 6–10)

• Attempt ONE question from Questions 3–9
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Section III – 20 marks (pages 11–12)

• Attempt either Question 10 or Question 11
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section I — Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context
20 marks
Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2

Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Answer the question on pages 2–8 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets are
available.

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

● demonstrate understanding of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered together

● evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts

● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose

and form

Question 1 — Elective 1: Intertextual Connections (20 marks)

(a) Shakespearean Drama and Film

In what ways are the attitudes towards an individual’s influence on the world in King
Richard III intellectually reshaped in Looking for Richard?

The prescribed texts are:

 William Shakespeare, King Richard III and
 Al Pacino, Looking for Richard

OR

(b) Prose Fiction and Film

In what ways are the attitudes towards an individual’s personal sense of control in the
world in Mrs Dalloway intellectual reshaped in The Hours?

The prescribed texts are:

– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and
– Stephen Daldry, The Hours

OR

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Question 1 (continued)

(c) Prose Fiction and Nonfiction

In what ways are the attitudes towards an individual’s personal sense of control in Pride
and Prejudice intellectually reshaped in Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen?

The prescribed texts are:

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and
– Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

OR

(d) Poetry and Prose Fiction

In what ways are the attitudes towards an individual’s self-resoluteness in the world in
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poetry intellectual reshaped in Tirra Lirra by the River?

The prescribed texts are:

– Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
* The Lady of Shalott
* Tears, idle tears
* In Memoriam A.H.H. – Cantos XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and
– Jessica Anderson, Tirra Lirra by the River

OR

(e) Poetry and Drama

In what ways are the attitudes towards an individual’s understanding of death int eh
world in the poetry of John Donne intellectually reshaped in W;t?

The prescribed texts are:

– John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry
* The Sunne Rising
* The Apparition
* A Valediction: forbidding mourning
* The Relique
* 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

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Question 2 — Elective 2: Intertextual Perspectives (20 marks)

(a) Shakespearean Drama and Nonfiction

The literary significance of The Prince is clarified through its comparison with Julius
Caesar

In what ways is this true in your comparative study of the attitudes towards power in
these two texts?

The prescribed texts are:

– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar and
– Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

OR

(b) Prose Fiction and Poetry

The literary significance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry is clarified through its
comparison with The Great Gatsby.

In what ways is this true in your comparative study of the attitudes towards human
aspirations in these two texts?

The prescribed texts are:

– F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby and

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Sonnets from the Portuguese – I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII

OR

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Question 2 (continued)

(c) Prose Fiction and Poetry

The literary significance of Dubliners is clarified through its comparison with Seamus
Heaney’s poetry.

In what ways is this true in your comparative study of the attitudes towards personal
crises in these two texts?

The prescribed texts are:

– James Joyce, Dubliners and
– Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996
* Digging
* Blackberry-Picking
* Mid-Term Break
* The Given Note
* The Strand at Lough Beg
* Casualty
* Granite Chip
* Clearances III

OR

(d) Prose Fiction and Film

The literary significance of Nineteen Eighty-Four is clarified through its comparison

with Metropolis.

In what ways is this true in your comparative study of the attitudes towards relationships
in these two texts?

The prescribed texts are:

– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four and
– Fritz Lang, Metropolis

End of Question 2

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Section II — Module B: Critical Study of Texts
20 marks
Attempt ONE question from Questions 3–9

Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Answer the question on pages 10–16 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets
are available.

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

● demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text

● evaluate the text’s language, content and construction

● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose

and form

Question 3 — Shakespearean Drama – William Shakespeare, Hamlet (20 marks)

Hamlet is a highly constructed dramatic experience devoid of conventional heroes. That is its
strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Hamlet?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

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Question 4 — Prose Fiction (20 marks)

(a) Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a study of passion and control told through the eyes of an unreliable
narrator. That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Jane Eyre?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

OR

(b) Tim Winton, Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet is an intricately constructed narrative that illuminates the ordinary. That is

its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Cloudstreet?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

OR

(c) Gail Jones, Sixty Lights

Sixty Lights is a fragmented narrative using vivid images to illuminate a difficult life.
That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Sixty Lights?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

OR

(d) Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion is a disconnected narrative that creates a fusion of voices

demanding to be heard. That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of In the Skin of a Lion?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

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Question 5 — Drama – Anton Chekhov, The Seagull (20 marks)

The Seagull is an intense study of desire within a claustrophobic setting. That is its strength.
That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of The Seagull?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

Question 6 — Film – Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (20 marks)

Citizen Kane is a highly constructed cinematic experience devoid of genuine emotion. That is
its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Citizen Kane?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

Question 7 — Poetry (20 marks)

(a) T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems

Eliot’s poetry employs unique voices to privilege personal reflection over wider social
commentary. That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Eliot’s poetry?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to Journey of the Magi and at least
ONE other poem set for study.

The prescribed poems are:

– T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems
* The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
* Preludes
* Rhapsody on a Windy Night
* The Hollow Men
* Journey of the Magi

OR

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Question 7 (continued)

(b) Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems

Rossetti’s poetry employs unique voices to focus on the individual over wider social
commentary. That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Rossetti’s poetry?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to L.E.L. and at least ONE other
poem set for study.

The prescribed poems are:

– Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems
* Goblin Market
* After Death
* Maude Clare
* Light Love
* L. E. L.
* In an Artist’s Studio

OR

(c) William Butler Yeats, W B Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney

Yeats’s poetry employs unique voices to explore the tension between the real world and
an ideal world that he imagines. That is its strength. That is its weakness.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of Yeats’s poetry?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to Among School Children and at
least ONE other poem set for study.

The prescribed poems are:

– William Butler Yeats, W B Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney
* When You Are Old
* The Wild Swans at Coole
* An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
* Easter 1916
* The Second Coming
* Leda and the Swan
* Among School Children

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Question 8 — Nonfiction – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas (20
marks)

Woolf’s essays experiment with the essay form to explore the tension between participation
and resistance. That is their strength. That is their weakness.

To what extent does this align with your view of A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed texts.

Question 9 — Nonfiction – Speeches (20 marks)

Speeches aim to manipulate the audience through powerful rhetoric at the expense of
substance.

To what extent does this statement align with your view of the speeches set for study?

In your response, you must make detailed reference to Speech to the Israeli Knesset and at
least ONE other speech set for study.

The prescribed speeches are:

* Anwar Sadat – Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977
* Paul Keating – Redfern Speech, 1992
* Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’, 1994
* Noel Pearson – ‘An Australian history for us all’, 1996
* William Deane – ‘It is still winter at home’, 1999
* Doris Lessing – ‘On not winning the Nobel Prize’, Nobel Lecture, 2007
* Geraldine Brooks – ‘A Home in Fiction’, Boyer Lecture 4, 2011

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Section III — Module C: Representation and Text
20 marks
Attempt either Question 10 or Question 11

Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Answer the question on pages 18–24 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets
are available.

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

● demonstrate understanding of and evaluate the relationship between representation and

meaning
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose

and form

Question 10 — Elective 1: Representing People and Politics (20 marks)

Ultimately, it is a composer’s choices that significantly shape our view of how political action
is a function of personal decisions.

In what ways have the composers’ choices in your prescribed text and ONE other related text
of your own choosing represented the relationship between political action and personal
decisions?

The prescribed texts are:

• Shakespearean Drama – William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
• Prose Fiction – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

• Drama – Arthur Miller, The Crucible

• Film – Barry Levinson, Wag the Dog

• Poetry – W H Auden, Selected Poems
The prescribed poems are:
* O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
* Spain
* Epitaph on a Tyrant
* In Memory of W B Yeats
* September 1, 1939
* The Unknown Citizen
* The Shield of Achilles
• Nonfiction – Henry Reynolds, Why Weren’t We Told?

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Question 11 — Elective 2: Representing People and Landscapes (20 marks)

Ultimately, it is a composer’s choices that significantly shape our view of the degrees of
intimacy between people and their negotiation of the landscape.

In what ways have the composers’ choices in your prescribed text and ONE other related text
of your own choosing represented the relationship between people and landscapes?

The prescribed texts are:

• Prose Fiction – Melissa Harrison, Clay

 Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn

 Patrick White, The Tree of Man

• Film – Rolf de Heer, Ten Canoes

• Poetry – Judith Wright, Judith Wright: Collected Poems 1942–1985

The prescribed poems are:
* The Hawthorn Hedge
* Brother and Sisters
* South of My Days
* For New England
* Flame-tree in a Quarry
* Train Journey
* Moving South

• Nonfiction – Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

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