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TUTOR: ________Carolina Fernandez

INTRODUCCIÓN A LOS ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS EN LENGUA INGLESA GRADO EN ESTUDIOS INGLESES – 1º 1 June, 2020 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS • • • •

Time to complete your paper: 2 ½ hours (from 9:30 am till 12:00 pm) Answer all the questions in English. Organise your ideas thoughtfully before you actually start writing. Then put them down laying them out in neat paragraphs. The examiner will appreciate your efforts in this direction. Leave some time to check your answers before emailing your paper to your PLA tutor as a Word document. If you don’t know the name of your PLA tutor, email your answers to the module coordinator, Carolina Fernández. ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

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Francisco J. Borge López: [email protected] (PLA 211)

Carolina Fernández Rodríguez: [email protected] (PLA 112) Alejandra Moreno Álvarez: [email protected] (PLA 111 and PLA 131) Irene Pérez Fernández: [email protected] (PLA 121) María del Mar González Chacón: [email protected] (PLA 212) Jimena Escudero Pérez: [email protected] (PLA 221 and PLA 231) Andrea Llano Busta: [email protected] (PLA 221 and PLA 231)

You should also remember to upload your answers and your portfolio onto the task made available for this purpose on the Virtual Campus. Use a Times font, size 12, doble spacing and broad margins. Students will lose marks through incorrect use of English, stylistic mistakes, poor presentation, and/or failure to comply with the exam requisites. SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

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Develop the two questions you will find below. Write 350-400 words per question. When illustrating your ideas, refer exclusively to the texts you have studied in this module and quote from them, using quotation marks, in order to prove your points. Each question will be given a maximum of 5 marks.

QUESTIONS 1. Characters who are discriminated against: Consider at least three characters who are discriminated against (one from a poem, another from a play, and a third one from a narrative text), analyze the reasons why they endure discrimination and explain the way in which they fight for their rights or, at the very least, try to end their victimization.

An example of a discriminated character in a poem can be found in ‘’ Civilization’, by Kath Walker/Oodgeroo Noonuccal. In here, the discrimination goes to the Australian aborigines, as being referred as a ‘’civilization missing a gap of centuries’’, like if the aborigines where still prehistoric people who are in need to be civilised. When the white people came, they ‘’had so little’’, meaning that they were fine with that ‘’little’’ they had, but in the eyes of the white man, they only were a mere investment, people who later will have to pay taxes and will become ratepayers, as the author says in ‘’for we were citizens, before we were ratepayers’’ . At the end, they lose their aboriginal life without hesitation to the white man’s lifestyle ‘’gladly and gratefully we accept’’ but the author

considers that they were fine just like they were (even thought they were given new knowledge), stating that they had happiness and ‘’each day was a holiday’’. Not because they are aboriginal people they need to be civilised or being treated like a future investment. In Pygmalion, a play written by Bernard Shaw we can also find discrimination. In this case the character who suffered it was Eliza Doolittle (her name is a game of words, Do + Little) because she was a flower girl from a lower social class. Mocked by his own people, she was forced to change and she finally is able to become a cultured person, but even at that point, she was not only still being treated like an object (women oppression), she was also mocked because of her language and was not accepted. From a narrative text we can take Mrs. Mallard as a discriminated one just because she is a woman. She is from The story of an hour by Kate Chopin. As we know, one of the topics of this text was female emancipation, and the main character felt relieved when her husband seemed to have died because, now ‘’there would be no powerful will bending hers’’, and she is now able to make her own decisions.

2. Consider at least three of the works you have read for this course and explain different scenes/excerpts in which irony becomes an essential literary devise. The examiner will appreciate your effort to offer examples of different kinds of irony. For example, you may analyse cases of verbal irony (what is said is the opposite of what is meant), of irony of expectations (the readers’ or the characters’ expectations are frustrated), and of dramatic irony (the audience or some characters have more information than other characters).

In the case of verbal irony we have the poem Half-caste by Jhon Agard. He uses it to show up the stupidity of the racist’s statements; ‘’I’m sure you’ll understand’’ means that you should understand but you are either too strong headed or you do not want to do it. ‘’Consequently, when I dream, I dream half-a-dream’’ means that because he is treated like a half-caste, he probably dreams half-adream and the same with the following lines ‘’ I half-caste human being cast half-a-shadow’’. Irony of expectations can be found in The country girl in which a rich man gets married with a country girl and he later suspects that she would be cheating on him, so he forces her to write a letter to her lover saying that she is done with him. In here the irony of expectations comes from her husband, expecting her not to be corrupted with the behaviour of the city and believing she is innocent. Story of an hour by Kate Chopin has clear examples of dramatic irony. One is when in the 10 th paragraph she is starting to feel alive, to ‘’recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her’’ ,she is happy about her husband’s death .The other one is when Mrs. Mallard dies from the shock of

seeing her husband still alive. The doctor said that she died from "the joy that kills’’, this means that she died because of the happiness of seeing her husband again, and what truly killed her was the massive disappointment she felt in that moment. Another example is Mrs. Mallard alone in her room, realizing that she would no longer be bound to her husband and that she was free ....