You should give careful consideration to your language choices and style, which should achieve a sense of Stanley's voice.
You should give careful consideration to your language choices and style, which should achieve a sense of Stanley's voice.
AO1 (15 marks) and AO4 (30 marks)
The student's response should:
- achieve play script form
- achieve a sense of Stanley's voice - confident and assertive with a suitable dialect
Answers may include - from the exam board
- appropriate stage directions
- appropriate opening to the questioning of Stanley
- Stanley explains how Blanche came to be staying with him and Stella
- Stanley describes some of the difficulties of Blanche's visit: her constant bathing and complaints about lighting. her designs on Mitch, her growing hysterical behaviour
- Stanley claims that Blanche is a fantasist - hearing music that's not playing and expecting a imaginary person to collect her
- admits that he did not get on with her
- denies attacking her
- Make good use of two or three stage directions. This can really enhance your answer. It's a good idea to use stage directions as an introduction to an episode and can be used at the end of your answer. It can serve as a conclusion.
- Stanley speaking short simple sentences full of informal lexis and appropriate dialect is very good
- Being able to develop your answer in an imaginary and creative way that is completely relevant to the task and consistent with the characters is excellent. One example of this in your answers is having Stanley developing a friendship with the police officer. This is genius because this fits in very well with the character of Stanley - his many male friends. It also shows us how powerful and likable Stanley is to other characters.
- The police officer - in this question or secondary / trigger character in other tasks, should only speak short and simple questions and use a formal register. He should be presented as professional and neutral / objective in his approach to Stanley. He should not be dominated by his emotions. His primary function is to discover the facts surrounding the accusation that Blanche has made against Stanley. Avoid long speeches from the police officer.
- Try and draw in episodes from other parts of the play - from before the scene you are writing about. Don't go into detail but make clear references to them in your answer.
