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- Source A: 20th-century prose fiction
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
An extract from a work first published in 1920.
This extract is taken from a novel by D. H. Lawrence, set in 1920, in which a young couple return to their Midlands estate near a mining village and face a bleak industrial landscape and a tense social divide between landowners, miners, and the church.
Source A
1 Connie and Clifford came home to Wragby in the autumn of 1920. Miss Chatterley, still disgusted at her brother's defection, had departed and was living in a little flat in London.
6 Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, begun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinction. It stood on an eminence in a rather
11 fine old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chimney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the
16 hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile:
21 houses, rows of wretched, small, begrimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness. Connie was accustomed to Kensington or the Scotch hills or the Sussex downs:
26 that was her England. With the stoicism of the young she took in the utter, soulless ugliness of the coal-and-iron Midlands at a glance, and left it at what it was: unbelievable and not to be thought about.
31 From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse
36 little whistle of the colliery locomotives. Tevershall pit-bank was burning, had been burning for years, and it would cost thousands to put it out. So it had to burn.
41 And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphureous combustion of the earth's excrement. But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth:
46 sulphur, iron, coal, or acid. And even on the Christmas roses the smuts settled persistently, incredible, like black manna from skies of doom. Well, there it was: fated like the rest of things! It was rather awful, but
51 why kick? You couldn't kick it away. It just went on. Life, like all the rest! On the low dark ceiling of cloud at night red blotches burned and quavered, dappling and swelling and contracting, like burns
56 that give pain. It was the furnaces. At first they fascinated Connie with a sort of horror; she felt she was living underground. Then she got used to them. And in the morning it
61 rained. Clifford professed to like Wragby better than London. This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. Connie wondered what
66 else they had: certainly neither eyes nor minds. The people were as haggard, shapeless, and dreary as the countryside, and as unfriendly. Only there was something in
71 their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit
76 mysterious. There had been no welcome home for the young squire, no festivities, no deputation, not even a single flower. Only a dank ride in a motorcar up a
81 dark, damp drive, burrowing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown façade, and the housekeeper and her husband
86 were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome. There was no communication between Wragby Hall and Tevershall
91 village, none. No caps were touched, no curtseys bobbed. The colliers merely stared; the tradesmen lifted their caps to Connie as to an acquaintance, and nodded
96 awkwardly to Clifford; that was all. Gulf impassable, and a quiet sort of resentment on either side. At first Connie suffered from the steady drizzle of resentment that came from
101 the village. Then she hardened herself to it, and it became a sort of tonic, something to live up to. It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether
106 from the colliers. Gulf impassable, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps non-existent south of the Trent. But in the Midlands and the industrial North gulf impassable, across which no communication could take place.
111 You stick to your side, I'll stick to mine! A strange denial of the common pulse of humanity.
116 Yet the village sympathised with Clifford and Connie in the abstract. In the flesh it was--You leave me alone!--on either side. The rector was a nice man of about sixty, full of his duty, and
121 reduced, personally, almost to a nonentity by the silent--You leave me alone!--of the village. The miners' wives were nearly all Methodists. The miners were
126 nothing. But even so much official uniform as the clergyman wore was enough to obscure entirely the fact that he was a man like any other man. No, he was Mester Ashby, a sort of automatic
131 preaching and praying concern.
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Section A: Reading
Answer all questions in this section. You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.
Question 1
Read again the first part of the source, from lines 1 to 5.
Answer all parts of this question.
Choose one answer for each question.
1.1 In which season did Connie and Clifford come home to Wragby?
- Autumn
- Spring
- Winter
[1 mark]
1.2 What type of accommodation is Miss Chatterley living in?
- A little flat
- A large country house
- A cottage
[1 mark]
1.3 What had Miss Chatterley done?
- had departed
- had arrived
- had stayed
[1 mark]
1.4 Where was Miss Chatterley living?
- in a little flat in London
- in a small house in London
- in a rented room in London
[1 mark]
Question 2
Look in detail at this extract, from lines 6 to 15 of the source:
6 Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, begun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinction. It stood on an eminence in a rather
11 fine old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chimney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the
How does the writer use language to present Wragby and the area around it? You could include the writer's choice of:
- words and phrases
- language features and techniques
- sentence forms.
[8 marks]
Question 3
You now need to think about the structure of the source as a whole. This extract is from the beginning of a novel.
How has the writer structured the text to create a sense of immersion?
You could write about:
- how immersion deepens throughout the source
- how the writer uses structure to create an effect
- the writer's use of any other structural features, such as changes in mood, tone or perspective.
[8 marks]
Question 4
For this question focus on the second part of the source, from line 31 to the end.
In this part of the source, the arrival at Wragby Hall is disappointing and unwelcoming. The writer suggests the lack of celebration shows the gulf between the owners and the workers is now impossible to cross.
To what extent do you agree and/or disagree with this statement?
In your response, you could:
- consider your impressions of the gulf between the owners and the workers
- comment on the methods the writer uses to convey the unwelcoming arrival
- support your response with references to the text.
[20 marks]
Question 5
A local food festival is compiling a digital anthology and invites short creative pieces from students.
Choose one of the options below for your entry.
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Option A: Describe an artisan chocolate workshop from your imagination. You may choose to use the picture provided for ideas:
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Option B: Write the opening of a story about a treasured family recipe.
(24 marks for content and organisation, 16 marks for technical accuracy)
[40 marks]