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Maturité
ENGLISH ORAL EXAM – 5F
G.B.SHAW, Pygmalion
June 2015
REVISION for Wed. 25.02.2015
Characters
Comment on …
OR
Eliza Doolittle
Mr Doolittle
Mrs Eynsford Hill
Nepommuck
Compare … and …
Professor Higgins
Mrs Higgins
Clara Eynsford Hill
Colonel Pickering
Mrs Pearce
Freddy Eynsford Hill
Themes
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Shaw’s life & concerns when he wrote Pygmalion
Drama & the theatre before and after Shaw
The myths of Pygmalion and Cinderella
Eliza’s social ascent: the different steps
The bet
Eliza’s room versus Mr Higgins’s and Mrs Higgins’ places
Love & marriage
W.S.MAUGHAM
Short Stories
A. Maugham’s life and works
B. ‘Mackintosh’
REVISION for Wed. 4.03.2015
1.
Structure, summary & title of the story
2.
Characters
a) Mackintosh
b) Walker
c) Manuma
C. ‘The Luncheon’
1.
2.
3.
Themes
a) The island and its traditions
b) Revenge
c) Mackintosh and Manuma: accomplices
d) The art of creating suspense
e) Irony
REVISION for Wed. 4.03.2015
Structure, summary & title of the story
Characters
a) The narrator
b) The Lady
D. The Fall of Edward Barnard’
3.
Themes
a) Relation narrator – lady
b) Irony
REVISION for Wed. 11.03.2015
1.
Structure, summary & title of the story
2.
a)
b)
c)
Characters
Isabel Longstaffe
Bateman Hunter
Edward Barnard
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Themes
Love
Two worlds apart: the island versus Chicago
The notion of fall in the story
Irony
Maturité
ENGLISH ORAL EXAM – 5F
E. ‘The Romantic Young Lady’
REVISION for Wed. 11.03.2015
1.
Structure, summary & title of the story
2.
Characters
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
June 2015
The Duchess of Dos Palos
The Countess of Marbella
The Coachman
Doña Pilar = The Marquesa de
San Esteban
The narrator
W. GOLDING, Lord of the Flies
3.
Themes
Love: tradition versus romanticism
The plot against the Duchess
Irony
REVISION for Wed. 25.03.2015
Characters
Comment on …
Piggy
Simon
The boy with the mulberry birth
mark
OR
Compare … and …
Ralph
Roger
The littluns
Jack
Samneric
The Beasts (4)
Themes
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Golding’s life and concerns when writing LOF
The island as a microcosm of the outside world
Degeneration: from democracy to tyranny
Death
Symbolic objects: the specs, the conch, the fire, Castle Rock
Fire(s)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Characters
Comment on …
Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
Basil Hallward
OR
Sibyl Vane
Mrs Vane
James Vane
Themes
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The Victorian Age
Oscar Wilde’s life & his novel
The Preface to the novel
The picture & Dorian’s degeneration
Good & evil
Love and marriage
Death
Compare … and …
Hetty Merton
Alan Campbell
Adrian Singleton