1.

Critically analyse ONE of the following texts showing how it reflects the social and
political context within which it was written. How and why might it still be relevant for
us today?
A Taste of Honey
Look Back in Anger
A Doll’s House
Streetcar Named Desire
Translations
A View from the Bridge
Top Girls

Alright danny

Helen

How is it,hows it going.like you alright?

Yeah.you know

Not to err.you know

Nice dress

Nice dress is it new

Yeah like is it

Yeah is it

Its nice,its sort of, one of those you know

You having dinner

Wheres shane

Right.nice. So youre having like a

Like celebratng, celebratory

Like a romantic

Is that salmon

Yeah sorry about that

Its this lads

Yeah its this lads

Blood.its this lads

Yeah, yeah thank you, I am alright danny, sorry, you should get back to your,it looks nice, its that your
basmati

Yeah its nit mine, the blood, its this lads.this fucking, poor lads

Coming in like this and youre having dinner.

You do that, you do that you did that with lemon and olive oild,danny, the rice that I love. Bit of the old
cracked

Im walking in like some sort fucking

Its gonna get all cold, get all cold danny,all fucking cold

I come round the corner and hes just lying there on the fucking, pave, tarmac. I thought to myself ahh
shit, fuck hes completley on his own. And he seemed ordinary danny, you know?i don’t know, he
seemed fair enough, like you’d go out for a drink with him, not necessarily a friend but if you met like for
a game of pool or like a dceent pint you’d .am I rambling? I am arnt I. im talking shit fucking talking shite
and now hes all alone lying there,bleeding. Someone really . Someone really just fucking

It wasn’t an accident

This country. Its monesters, its dark out there. Sorry I didn’t knock, I used the key. I know its for
emergencies but I thought this might have been abit of a you know. And I was thinking hels, what if I
kocked. You see me and its shock, see me covered like this. I mean how do you not shock. And then I
panicked cuz the door slams when you let it go, it slams doesn’t it danny, when you let it go.so I was
gonna call out but then I realized youd shit your fucking bricks, you know the condition you have you
don’t need to shit your fucking bricks, I mean, I don’t mean it to sound in a patronizing way cuz your not
ill, not ill or something but if you heard someone shout out in your hall way youd shit your fucking bricks
and that’s not right. So ive been here for about 15 minutes just outside, thinking of you know, what
to ,do

Yeah

I am looking

Okay

I was trying to help

Yeah the lad on the tarmac and hes been hurt

By people

I don’t know, I don’t know what people but he was bleeding

Cuts
Yeah

I should him like that and I just said mate mate like that

Yeah I shook him gently like that, maybe a little bit harder but I was

Knives

On his chest and face and around his arms, like slices

I think I mean I mean