English Hl Grade 12 P2 Eastern Cape Mock 2022 QP (Eng)

Downloaded from hlayiso.com NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 SEPTEMBER 2022 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 MARKS: 80 TIME: 2½ hours This question paper consists of 23 pages.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 2 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. Please read these instructions carefully before you begin to answer questions. 2. Do not attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the table of contents on the next page and mark the numbers of the questions set on texts you have studied this year. Thereafter, read these questions and choose the ones you wish to answer. 3. This question paper consists of THREE sections. SECTION A: POETRY (30) SECTION B: NOVEL (25) SECTION C: DRAMA (25) 4. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS in all: THREE in SECTION A, ONE in SECTION B and ONE in SECTION C. Use the checklist to assist you. 5. CHOICE OF ANSWERS FOR SECTIONS B (NOVEL) AND C (DRAMA): • Answer ONLY questions on the novel and the drama you have studied. • Answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL QUESTION. If you answer the essay question in SECTION B, you must answer the contextual question in SECTION C. If you answer the contextual question in SECTION B, you must answer the essay question in SECTION C. 6. LENGTH OF ANSWERS: • Essay questions on Poetry should be answered in 250–300 words. • Essay questions on the Novel and Drama sections should be answered in 400–450 words. • The length of answers to contextual questions should be determined by the mark allocation. Candidates should aim for conciseness and relevance. 7. Follow the instructions at the beginning of each section carefully. 8. Number the answers exactly as the questions have been numbered in the question paper. 9. Start each section on a NEW page. 10. Suggested time management: SECTION A: approximately 40 minutes SECTION B: approximately 55 minutes SECTION C: approximately 55 minutes 11. Write neatly and legibly. Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION A: POETRY PRESCRIBED POETRY ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS. QUESTION 1 Essay question 10 marks Page 5 An African Thunderstorm QUESTION 2 somewhere i have never travelled, Contextual question 10 marks Page 6 gladly beyond QUESTION 3 Contextual question 10 marks Page 7 Funeral Blues QUESTION 4 Contextual question 10 marks Page 8 First Day after the War AND UNSEEN POETRY COMPULSORY QUESTION. QUESTION 5 Contextual question 10 marks Page 9 When great trees fall NOTE: In sections B and C, answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL question. If you answer an essay question from SECTION B, you must answer a contextual question from SECTION C. If you answer a contextual question from SECTION B, you must answer an essay question from SECTION C. SECTION B: NOVEL ANSWER ONLY ON THE NOVEL YOU HAVE STUDIED. ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SIX QUESTIONS. QUESTION 6 Essay question 25 marks Page 10 The Picture of Dorian Gray OR QUESTION 7 Contextual question 25 marks Page 11 The Picture of Dorian Gray OR QUESTION 8 Essay question 25 marks Page 13 Life of Pi OR QUESTION 9 Contextual question 25 marks Page 13 Life of Pi Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 4 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) SECTION C: DRAMA ANSWER ONLY ON THE DRAMA YOU HAVE STUDIED. ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR QUESTIONS. QUESTION 10 Essay question 25 marks Page 15 Hamlet OR QUESTION 11 Contextual question 25 marks Page 16 Hamlet OR QUESTION 12 Essay question 25 marks Page 18 Othello OR QUESTION 13 Contextual question 25 marks Page 18 Othello OR QUESTION 14 Essay question 25 marks Page 20 The Crucible OR QUESTION 15 Contextual question 25 marks Page 21 The Crucible CHECKLIST Use this checklist to ensure that you have answered the correct number of questions. SECTION QUESTION NO. OF TICK NUMBERS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER A: POETRY 1–4 2 (Prescribed Poetry) A: Poetry 5 1 (Unseen Poem) B: NOVEL 6–9 1 (Essay or Contextual) C: DRAMA 10–15 1 (Essay or Contextual) NOTE: In SECTIONS B and C, answer ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question. Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 5 SECTION A: POETRY PRESCRIBED POETRY Answer any TWO of the following questions. QUESTION 1: ESSAY QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. AN AFRICAN THUNDERSTORM – David Rubadiri 1 From the west 2 Clouds come hurrying with the wind 3 Turning 4 Sharply 5 Here and there 6 Like a plague of locusts 7 Whirling 8 Tossing up things on its tail 9 Like a madman chasing nothing. 10 Pregnant clouds 11 Ride stately on its back 12 Gathering to perch on hills 13 Like dark sinister wings; 14 The Wind whistles by 15 And trees bend to let it pass. 16 In the village 17 Screams of delighted children 18 Toss and turn 19 In the din of the whirling wind, 20 Women – 21 Babies clinging on their backs – 22 Dart about 23 In and out 24 Madly 25 The Wind whistles by 26 Whilst trees bend to let it pass. 27 Clothes wave like tattered flags 28 Flying off 29 To expose dangling breasts 30 As jagged blinding flashes 31 Rumble, tremble, and crack 32 Amidst the smell of fired smoke 33 and the pelting march of the storm. In a carefully planned essay, critically discuss how the threatening nature of the storm is shown with close reference to diction, imagery and structure. Your essay must be 250–300 words (about ONE page) in length. [10] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 6 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) QUESTION 2: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond – ee cummings 1 somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond 2 any experience, your eyes have their silence: 3 in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, 4 or which i cannot touch because they are too near 5 your slightest look easily will unclose me 6 though i have closed myself as fingers, 7 you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens 8 (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose 9 or if you wish to close me, i and 10 my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, 11 as when the heart of this flower imagines 12 the snow carefully everywhere descending; 13 nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals 14 the power of your intense fragility: whose texture 15 compels me with the colour of its countries, 16 rendering death and forever with each breathing 17 (i do not know what it is about you that closes 18 and opens; only something in me understands 19 the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses) 20 nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands 2.1 Refer to line 3: ‘in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me.’ What does the word ‘enclose’ suggest about the speaker’s experience? (2) 2.2 Comment on the nature of the journey the speaker is undertaking in line 1. (2) 2.3 Consider lines 7–8: ‘you open always … rose.’ Discuss the effectiveness of the imagery in the context of the poem. (3) 2.4 Critically discuss how the enjambment throughout the poem conveys the speaker’s tone. (3) [10] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 7 QUESTION 3: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. FUNERAL BLUES – W.H. Auden 1 Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, 2 Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, 3 Silence the pianos and with muffled drum 4 Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. 5 Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead 6 Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’. 7 Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, 8 Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. 9 He was my North, my South, my East and West, 10 My working week and my Sunday rest, 11 My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; 12 I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. 13 The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, 14 Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, 15 Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; 16 For nothing now can ever come to any good. 3.1 Refer to stanza 1. Why is the speaker insistent about these specific instructions? (2) 3.2 Consider line 12: ‘I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.’ Explain how this line influences the reader’s attitude towards the speaker. (2) 3.3 Refer to lines 10–11: ‘My working week … my midnight’. Comment on how the imagery in these lines reflect the speaker’s relationship with his beloved. (3) 3.4 Refer to lines 13–16: ‘The stars are not … come to any good.’ Critically discuss how the diction in these lines conveys the speaker’s tone. (3) [10] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 8 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) QUESTION 4: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. FIRST DAY AFTER THE WAR – Mazisi Kunene 1 We heard the songs of a wedding party. 2 We saw a soft light 3 Coiling round the young blades of grass 4 At first we hesitated, then we saw her footprints, 5 Her face emerged, then her eyes of freedom! 6 She woke us up with a smile saying, 7 ‘What day is this that comes so suddenly?’ 8 We said, ‘It is the first day after the war’. 9 Then without waiting we ran to the open space 10 Ululating to the mountains and the pathways 11 Calling people from all the circles of the earth. 12 We shook up the old man demanding a festival 13 We asked for all the first fruits of the season. 14 We held hands with a stranger 15 We shouted across the waterfalls 16 People came from all lands 17 It was the first day of peace. 18 We saw our Ancestors travelling tall on the horizon. 4.1 Refer to line 1. Account for the comparison between a ‘wedding’ and the ‘first day after the war’. (2) 4.2 Refer to line 14: ‘We held hands with a stranger.’ Discuss the significance of this line in the context of the poem as a whole. (2) 4.3 Consider lines 4–6: ‘then we saw her … with a smile saying.’ Comment on the effectiveness of freedom being personified as a woman. (3) 4.4 Refer to lines 9–18: ‘Then without waiting … on the horizon.’ Critically discuss how the mood of the poem is determined by the diction in these lines. (3) [10] AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 9 UNSEEN POEM (COMPULSORY) QUESTION 5: UNSEEN POETRY – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. WHEN GREAT TREES FALL (Adapted) – Maya Angelou 1 When great trees fall, 2 rocks on distant hills shudder, 3 lions hunker down 4 in tall grasses, 5 and even elephants 6 lumber after safety. 7 When great souls die, 8 the air around us becomes 9 light, rare, sterile. 10 We breathe, briefly. 11 Our eyes, briefly, 12 see with 13 a hurtful clarity. 14 Our memory, suddenly sharpened, 15 examines, 16 gnaws on kind words 17 unsaid, 18 promised walks 19 never taken. 20 And when great souls die, 21 After a period peace blooms, 22 Slowly and always 23 irregularly. 24 Our senses, restored, never 25 To be the same, whisper to us. 26 They existed. They existed. 27 We can be. Be and be 28 better. For they existed. 5.1 Refer to lines 1–6: ‘When great trees fall …lumber after safety.’ What effect does the falling trees have on their environment? (2) 5.2 What does the phrase ‘great souls’ (line 7) suggest about those who have passed? (2) 5.3 Refer to line 21–23: ‘After a period peace … irregularly.’ Comment on the effectiveness of the image in these lines. (3) 5.4 Consider lines 11–28: ‘Our eyes, briefly … For they existed.’ Critically discuss how the speaker’s changing attitude is conveyed in these lines. (3) [10] TOTAL SECTION A: 30 Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 10 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) SECTION B: NOVEL Answer ONLY on the novel you have studied. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – Oscar Wilde Answer EITHER QUESTION 6 (essay question) OR QUESTION 7 (contextual question). QUESTION 6: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY ─ ESSAY QUESTION In this novel, the influence of Lord Henry Wotton and Basil Hallward leads to Dorian Gray’s loss of innocence. Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. Your response should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 400─450 words (2─2½ pages). [25] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 11 QUESTION 7: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY ─ CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT A Three o’clock struck, and four, and the half-hour rang its double chime, but Dorian Gray did not stir. He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life, and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering. He did not know what to do, or what to think. Finally, he went over to the table, and wrote a passionate letter to the girl he had 5 loved, imploring her forgiveness, and accusing himself of madness. He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow, and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. When Dorian had finished the letter, he felt he had been forgiven. 10 Suddenly there came a knock to the door, and he heard Lord Henry’s voice outside. ‘My dear boy, I must see you. Let me in at once. I can’t bear your shutting yourself up like this.’ He made no answer at first, but remained quite still. The knocking still continued, and grew louder. Yes, it was better to let Lord Henry in, and to explain to him the 15 new life he was going to lead, to quarrel with him if it became necessary to quarrel, to part if parting was inevitable. He jumped up, drew the screen hastily across the picture, and unlocked the door. ‘I am so sorry for it all, Dorian,’ said Lord Henry, as he entered. ‘But you must not think too much about it.’ 20 ‘Do you mean about Sibyl Vane?’ asked the lad. ‘Yes, of course,’ answered Lord Henry, sinking into a chair, and slowly pulling off his gloves. ‘It is dreadful, from one point of view, but it was not your fault. [Chapter 8] 7.1 Place the extract in context. (3) 7.2 Refer to lines 1–2: ‘Three o’clock struck … stir.’ Discuss how these lines contribute to the tension at this point in the novel. (3) 7.3 Refer to lines 2–4: ‘He was trying to gather up … wandering.’ Comment on how these lines influence your response to Dorian’s state of mind at this point. (3) 7.4 Critically comment on Dorian’s ‘confession’ in line 9. (3) 7.5 Refer to lines 15–17: ‘Yes, it was better … inevitable.’ Using these lines as a starting point, comment on whether Dorian’s decision to review his friendship with Lord Henry is justified. Refer to the novel, as a whole, in your response. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 12 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) EXTRACT B ‘Don’t touch me. Finish what you have to say.’ A twisted flash of pain shot across the painter’s face. He paused for a moment, and a wild feeling of pity came over him. After all, what right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray? If he had done a tithe of what was rumoured about him, how much he must have suffered! Then he straightened himself up, and walked over 5 to the fireplace, and stood there, looking at the burning logs with their frost-like ashes and their throbbing cores of flame. ‘I am waiting, Basil,’ said the young man, in a hard, clear voice. He turned round. ‘What I have to say is this,’ he cried. ‘You must give me some answer to these horrible charges that are made against you. If you tell me they 10 are absolutely untrue from beginning to end, I shall believe you. Deny them, Dorian, deny them! Can’t you see what I am going through? My God! Don’t tell me that you are bad, and corrupt, and shameful.’ Dorian Gray smiled. There was a curl of contempt in his lips. ‘Come upstairs, Basil.’ He said quietly. ‘I keep a diary of my life from day to day, and it never leaves 15 the room in which it is written. I shall show it to you if you come with me.’ [Chapter 12] 7.6 Account for the ‘pain’ (line 2) Basil is experiencing. (3) 7.7 Comment on how the change in Dorian’s character is revealed in this extract. (3) 7.8 Refer to lines 15–18. Critically comment on the reason Basil is the one whom Dorian chooses to show the ‘diary’ of his life. Refer to lines 15–16. (4) [25] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 13 LIFE OF PI – Yann Martel Answer EITHER QUESTION 8 (essay question) OR QUESTION 9 (contextual question). QUESTION 8: LIFE OF PI ─ ESSAY QUESTION Pi’s survival can be attributed to the influences of his various mentors. Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with the above statement. Your essay should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 400–450 words (2–2½ pages). [25] OR QUESTION 9: LIFE OF PI ─ CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT C ‘Religion will save us,’ I said. Since when I could remember, religion had been very close to my heart. ‘Religion?’ Mr Kumar grinned broadly. ‘I don’t believe in religion. Religion is darkness.’ Darkness? I was puzzled. I thought, Darkness is the last thing that religion is. 5 Religion is light. Was he testing me? Was he saying, ‘Religion is darkness’ the way he sometimes said in class things like ‘Mammals lay eggs,’ to see if someone would correct him? (‘Only platypuses, sir.’) There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, 10 close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist.’ … ‘When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio. I asked myself every day, ‘Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?’ God never came. It wasn’t God who saved me ─ it was medicine. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a 15 watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. … This was all a bit much for me. The tone was right ─ loving and brave – but the details seemed bleak. I said nothing. It wasn’t for fear of angering Mr Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terribly disease 20 that must be if it could kill God in a man. [Chapter 7] 9.1 Refer to lines 1–2. How does Pi’s attitude towards religion remain unchanged after his ordeal? Substantiate your answer. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 14 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) 9.2 Refer to line 15: ‘Reason is my prophet …’ Discuss how science/scientific knowledge contributes to Pi’s survival at sea when considering Pi’s animal/’better story’. (3) 9.3 Refer to lines 9–10: ‘There are no grounds … but our sense experience.’ Why is Pi compelled to create an alternative ‘explanation of reality’ at the end of his ordeal? (3) AND EXTRACT D The glance gave me one of my last images of Richard Parker, for at that precise moment he jumped over me. I saw his body, so immeasurably vital, stretched in the air above me, a fleeting, furred rainbow. He landed in the water, his back legs splayed, his tail high, and from there, in a few hops, he reached the beach. He went to the left, his paws gouging the wet sand, but changed his mind and spun 5 around. He passed directly in front of me on his way to the right. He didn’t look at me. He ran a hundred yards or so along the shore before turning in. His gait was clumsy and uncoordinated. He fell several times. At the edge of the jungle, he stopped. I was certain he would turn my way. He would look at me. He would flatten his ears. He would growl. In some such way, he would conclude our 10 relationship. He did nothing of the sort. He only looked fixedly into the jungle. Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. [Chapter 94] 9.4 Place the extract in context. (3) 9.5 Refer to line 10–11: ‘In some such way he would conclude our relationship.’ Discuss the relationship that develops between Pi and Richard Parker in the novel as a whole. (3) 9.6 Refer to line 13: ‘disappeared forever from my life’. Account for Richard Parker’s departure at this stage of the novel. (3) 9.7 Consider lines 9–11: ‘I was certain he would … into the jungle.’ Comment on how these lines influence your response to Pi’s state of mind. (3) 9.8 Other than Mr Kumar, referred to in Extract C, Pi’s survival is influenced by various mentors. Critically discuss the influence of various mentors on Pi’s survival. (4) [25] TOTAL SECTION B: 25 AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 15 SECTION C: DRAMA Answer ONLY on the play you have studied. HAMLET – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Answer EITHER QUESTION 10 (essay question) OR QUESTION 11 (contextual question). QUESTION 10: HAMLET ─ ESSAY QUESTION At the end of this drama, Fortinbras says that Hamlet ‘was likely, had he been put on [the throne] to have proved most royal.’ Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with this assessment of Hamlet’s character. Your essay should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 400–450 words (2–2½ pages). [25] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 16 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) QUESTION 11: HAMLET ─ CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT E CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord, I am too much I’th’sun. GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nightly colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids 5 Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know’st’tis common─all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. GERTRUDE If it be, 10 Why seems it so particular with thee? HAMLET Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems’. ‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath 15 No, nor the fruitful river in the eye Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief That can denote me truly. These indeed ‘seem’, For they are actions that a man might play; 20 But I have that within which passeth show─ These but the trappings and the suits of woe. [Act 1, Scene 2] 11.1 Refer to line 1. What prompts Claudius to ask Hamlet this question? Refer to line 1. (3) 11.2 Refer to line 2 and 9. What does Hamlet’s response reveal about his attitude to both Claudius and Gertrude? Refer to lines 2 and 9. (3) 11.3 In lines 3–8 Gertrude attempts to encourage Hamlet to overcome his grief. To what extent is the nature of this advice typical of her character? (3) 11.4 Critically comment on Hamlet’s emphasis on the word ‘seems’ in line 12. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 17 EXTRACT F CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, And you must put me in your heart for friend, Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain Pursued my life 5 LAERTES It well appears. But tell me Why you proceeded not against these feats, So crimeful and so capital in nature, As by your safety, wisdom, all things else, You mainly were stirred up. 10 CLAUDIUS O, for two special reasons, Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, And yet to me they’re strong. The Queen his mother Lives almost by his looks; and for myself─ My virtue or my plague, be it either which─ 15 She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but, in his sphere, I could not but by her. The other motive Why to a public count I might not go Is the great love the general gender bear him, 20 Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turpeth wood to stone, Convert his guilt to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, 25 And not where I had aimed them. LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Who has, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger, on mount, of all the age 30 For her perfections. But my revenge will come. [Act 4, Scene 7] 11.5 Place this extract in context. (3) 11.6 Refer to lines 1–5. How is Claudius’ duplicity revealed in these lines? Refer to lines 1–5. (3) 11.7 Refer to line 31: ‘But my revenge will come.’ If you were the director of a production of Hamlet, how would you instruct Laertes to deliver these lines? Pay special attention to body language and tone. Motivate your instructions. (3) 11.8 Critically comment on how the contrast between the characters of Hamlet and Laertes is shown. Refer to both Extracts E and F. (4) [25] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 18 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) OTHELLO – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Answer EITHER QUESTION 12 (essay question) OR QUESTION 13 (contextual question). QUESTION 12: OTHELLO ─ ESSAY QUESTION Othello’s inability to control his weaknesses leads to tragic consequences. Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. Your essay should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 400–450 words (2–2½ pages). [25] OR QUESTION 13: OTHELLO – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT G CASSIO … You have been hotly called for, When, being not at your lodging to be found, The senate hath sent about three several quests To search you out. OTHELLO ’Tis well I am found by you: 5 I will but spend a word here in the house, And go with you. Exit CASSIO Ensign, what makes he here? IAGO Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land-carrack. If it prove lawful prize, he’s made for ever. 10 CASSIO I do not understand. IAGO He’s married. CASSIO To who? IAGO Marry to - Enter Othello 15 (To Othello) Come, captain, will you go? OTHELLO Have with you. CASSIO Here come another troop to seek for you. Enter Brabantio, Roderigo, and officers, with lights and weapons IAGO It is Brabantio. General, be advised, 20 He comes to bad intent. OTHELLO Holla, stand there! Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 19 RODERIGO (to Brabantio) Signor, it is the Moor. BRABANTIO Down with him, thief! 25 IAGO (drawing his sword) You, Roderigo? Come, sir, I am for you. OTHELLO Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust’ em. (To Brabantio) Good signor, you shall more command with years 30 Than with your weapons. [Act 1, Scene 2] 13.1 Place this extract in context. (3) 13.2 Refer to lines 1–4: ‘You have been hotly called …To search you out.’ What does the senate’s urgent search for Othello reveal about its opinion of Othello? (3) 13.3 Refer to lines 9–10. Discuss whether Iago’s words in these lines are consistent with his character throughout the play. (3) 13.4 Refer to line 25. Why would Brabantio be so easily convinced that Othello acted immorally in ‘stealing’ Desdemona? (3) AND EXTRACT H OTHELLO If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse, On horror’s head horrors accumulate, Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed, For nothing canst thou to damnation add 5 Greater than that. IAGO O grace, O heaven forgive me! Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense? God buy you, take mine office. O wretched fool, That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice! 10 O monstrous world take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe! I thank you for this profit, and from hence I’ll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence. OTHELLO Nay, stay. Thou shouldst be honest. 15 IAGO I should be wise, for honesty’s a fool, And loses that it works for. Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 20 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) OTHELLO By the world, I think my wife be honest, and think she is not. I think that thou art just, and think thou art not. 20 I’ll have some proof. My name that was as fresh As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not endure it. Would I were satisfied! 25 IAGO I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion. I do repent me that I put it to you. You would be satisfied? OTHELLO Would? Nay, and I will. [Act 3, Scene 3] 13.5 Refer to lines 18–20: ‘By the world … think she is not.’ If you were the director of a production of Othello, how would you instruct Othello to deliver these lines. Pay specific attention to body language and tone. Motivate your instructions. (3) 13.6 Refer to line 27: ‘I do repent me that I put it to you.’ Discuss the irony of Iago’s words. (3) 13.7 Refer to line 28: ‘You would be satisfied?’ Explain how Iago will satisfy Othello’s need for certainty of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness? (3) 13.8 Refer to both EXTRACT G and EXTRACT H. The setting of each extract reflects the emotional state of Othello. Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. (4) [25] OR THE CRUCIBLE – ARTHUR MILLER Answer EITHER QUESTION 14 (essay question) OR QUESTION 15 (contextual question). QUESTION 14: THE CRUCIBLE ─ ESSAY QUESTION In the play, The Crucible, John Proctor and others are forced to sacrifice that which is important to them. Critically discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. Your essay should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 400–450 words (2–2½ pages). [25] OR Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 21 QUESTION 15: THE CRUCIBLE ─ CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT I PARRIS No – no. (to Putnam) I have no answer for that crowd. I’ll wait till Mr Hale arrives. (To get Mrs Putnam to leave) If you will, Goody Anne… PUTNAM Now look you, sir. Let you strike out against the Devil, and the village will bless you for it! Come down, speak to them – pray with them. They’re thirsting for your word, Mister! Surely you’ll pray with them. 5 PARRIS (swayed) I’ll lead them in a psalm, but let you say nothing of witchcraft yet. I will not discuss it. The cause is yet unknown. I have had enough contention since I came; I want no more. MRS Mercy, you go home to Ruth, d’y’hear? PUTNAM MERCY Aye, mum. 10 (Mrs Putnam goes out) PARRIS (to Abigail) If she starts for the window, cry for me at once. ABIGAIL I will, uncle. PARRIS (to Putnam) There is a terrible power in her arms today. (He goes out with Putnam.) 15 ABIGAIL (with hushed trepidation) How is Ruth sick? MERCY It’s weirdish, I know not – she seems to walk like a dead one since last night. ABIGAIL (turns at once and goes to Betty, and now, with fear in her voice) Betty? (Betty doesn’t move. She shakes her.) Now stop this! Betty! 20 Sit up now! MERCY Have you tried beatin’ her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her. ABIGAIL (holding Mercy back) No, he’ll be comin’ up. Listen, now; if they be questioning us, tell them we danced – I told him as much already. 25 [Act 1] Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com 22 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) 15.1 Refer to lines 1–2: ‘I’ll wait till Mr Hale arrives.’ Why has Parris urgently summoned Reverend Hale to Salem? (3) 15.2 Refer to the stage direction in line 6. Explain why Parris would be so easily ‘swayed’ by Putnam’s advice. (3) 15.3 Refer to line 3: ‘Now look you, sir. Let you strike out against the Devil …’ Discuss the irony of Putnam’s comment. (3) 15.4 Refer to line 19. Account for Abigail’s fear at this stage of the play. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

Downloaded from hlayiso.com (EC/SEPTEMBER 2022) ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 23 EXTRACT J DANFORTH Accept my congratulations, Referend Hale; we are gladdened to see you returned to your good work. HALE (coming to DANFORTH now) You must pardon them. They will not budge. (HERRICK enters, waits) 5 DANFORTH (conciliatory) You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just. PARRIS (with failing heart) Rebecca will not confess? HALE The sun will rise in a few minutes. Excellency, I must have more time. 10 DANFORTH Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Twelve are already executed; the names of these seven are given out, and the village expects to see them die this morning. Postponement now speaks floundering on my part; reprieve or 15 pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that die till now. While I speak God’s law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering… Now draw yourselves up like men and help me, as you are bound by heaven to do. Have you spoken with them all, Mr Hale? HALE All but Proctor. He is in the dungeon. 20 DANFORTH (to HERRICK) What’s Proctor’s way now? HERRICK He sits like some great bird; you’d not know he lived except he will take food from time to time. [Act 4] 15.5 Place the extract in context. (3) 15.6 Critically comment on whether Hale’s behaviour in this extract is consistent with his behaviour elsewhere in the play. (3) 15.7 Refer to lines 9–10: ‘The sun will rise … I must have more time.’ If you were the director of a production of The Crucible, how would you instruct Hale to deliver these lines? Pay specific attention to body language and tone. Motivate your instructions. (3) 15.8 Refer to both Extracts I and J. Critically discuss how acting out of self-interest has devastating consequences in this drama. (4) [25] TOTAL SECTION C: 25 GRAND TOTAL: 80 Copyright reserved Please turn over