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Situation of women
Part b) of Question 5 asks candidates to answer on another moment from My Mother Said I Never Should.
Explore another moment in My Mother Said I Never Should where the situation of women is presented dramatically.
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Marking points
- 1 Chooses a relevant moment from the play.
- 2 Explains what it reveals about women's situations.
- 3 Analyses dramatic methods.
Full-mark answer
A strong response might discuss the wasteland scenes, showing how children's games disturbingly echo adult expectations about sex, pregnancy and female roles. It would analyse setting, dark humour and symbolic details such as the curse or waste-ground to explain dramatic presentation.
Why this answer loses marks
Women have difficult lives in the play.
This answers only as a general theme, without choosing one dramatic moment or analysing how the scene presents women.