A.A. 2010-11LINGUA INGLESE 1 LM
session:Estivo (Giugno 2011)
name:Ilaria Pontone
corso di laurea:LLEA 2
n.credits:6
area of study:The Importance of Being Ernest
Evaluation:
This is very impressive, Ilaria. Your analysis of every aspect of the narratives is very thorough and accurate. Your writing is clear and you always make your points using examples from the text. You have clearly worked hard on these stories and produced some good results.
One thing. Why do you spell “begin” as “bigin” (you do this twice!).
Introduction - please don’t write paragraphs of one sentence
Story 1 – the preface is in Lady B’s turn at l.4. She asks J two questions which he answers with the story of his past. As you say, this is an interrogation. A preface and a conclusion do not need a justification of explanation. They just happen. You are right to say that this is a collaborative episode controlled by Lady B and that he does not have to interest the listener. He has to be credible. Excellent discussion of tellability.
Story 2 – we analysed this story in class so I have nothing further to add; the fact that he joins in the story knowing that it is false heightens the affiliation between the two.
Story 3 – another excellent analysis; you are absolutely right about the similarities and differences with story 1. J wants to tell his story and Lady B may or may not want to hear it. J’s task is to tell his story without offending his listener and causing her not stop listening. The parallelism is a nice point which I hadn’t noticed before.
Story 4 – “branded on my memory” is a marker of interactional remembering. Another excellent analysis. You are right that this is a co-construction of the same event.
Story 5 – nice points about irony and parallelism; the question of humour is obviously very important in these stories and irony and parallelism are two ways of highlighting it. How else does Wilde construct humour in these stories?