O-LevelLiterature in EnglishDrama2010/12 · May/June 2010 · Q1825 Marks

You are Raleigh. You have left the dugout after Stanhope has seized your letter and ordered you to inspect your rifles. Write your thoughts.

(a)You are Raleigh. You have left the dugout after Stanhope has seized your letter and ordered you to inspect your rifles. Write your thoughts.[25]

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Raleigh is clearly in a state of distress and the reasons for this are obvious.
He has been humiliated by his hero.
He has seen a side of Stanhope he never could have imagined to be there.
Perhaps most hurtful and humiliating though, given that he is a public schoolboy who has been taught to keep his emotions well under wraps, is to have his hero worship for Stanhope revealed to the object of his worship.
Will he be angry? Probably not, bewildered no doubt.
However, perhaps we should allow some spark as he leaves his school days behind.

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Topic: Drama, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
Source: O-Level Literature in English, May/June 2010 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 18.

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