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Component 2: Drama
Quick questions on The drama comparison essay: the Section B response - Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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What is structure by idea, not by play?Show answer
The weakest Section B answers write everything about the pre-1900 play, then everything about the post-1900 play, and bolt a comparison on at the end. This caps AO4. The strongest organise by aspects of the question's idea, putting both plays into contact within each paragraph. For "power and its abuse", paragraphs might run: how each play stages the source of power; how each shows its abuse; how each dramatises its consequences.
What is a model AO4 paragraph?Show answer
"Both plays locate power in a system larger than the individual, but they stage it through opposite conventions. Webster's Jacobean court makes power personal and hereditary, embodied in the brothers whose presence dominates the stage. Prebble's modern corporation, by contrast, disperses power into markets and spectacle, staged through projection and chorus rather than a single ruler, so authority becomes systemic and faceless.
What is a weak paragraph upgraded?Show answer
"Both plays are about powerful people who do bad things." Upgraded: where Webster embodies hereditary power in the staged presence of the brothers, Prebble disperses it into corporate spectacle and chorus, so one play gives power a body to resist and the other makes it systemic and faceless. Subject becomes a comparison of dramatic method and genre.
What is q1?Show answer
Why is AO4 especially important in Component 2 Section B? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
How does context (AO3) earn its marks in the drama comparison? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare how your two dramatists present love and its destruction. [Section B; marked out of 60]
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