Exam: prose

Question 1

Ian McEwan ‘On Chesil Beach’ facts

Answer 1

• -the beach represents how they are on the shore of change.

- -set during the 1960s, where many social barriers began to be broken

Question 2

Ian McEwan ‘On Chesil Beach’ quotes:

S
I
T

Answer 2

S—‘She loved Edward, not with the hot, moist passion she had read about, but warmly, deeply, sometimes like a daughter, sometimes almost maternally,’ P9

I—‘It was her duty, her marital duty.’ P151

T—‘To be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.’ P6

Question 3

‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë quotes

Answer 3

‘My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible light, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!’ (Chapter 9) (Romantic love)

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!” Chapter 16 (Lost love)

‘What does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree-filling the air night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women, my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!’ Ch33 (Lost love)

‘No! I tell you, I have such faith in Linton’s love, that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn’t wish to retaliate,’ Ch10 (Romantic friend)

Question 4

‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith quote

Answer 4

‘He could have hit Dickie, sprung on him, or kissed him, or thrown him overboard, and nobody could have seen him.’
(Supressed love)

‘A crazy emotion of hate, of affection, of impatience and frustration was swelling in him, hampering his breathing. He wanted to kill Dickie!’ (Supressed/ violent love)