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Write а guided аnаlysis fоr bоth Questiоn 1 and Question 2. Upload your answer at the end of Question 2. The following text is an excerpt from Hotel Sorrento, a play by Hannie Rayson. Meg, an Australian writer living in London, has written a novel which has been short-listed for a major award. She is talking with her husband Edwin about a letter from her sister, Hilary, who lives back in Australia. 1 MEG is sitting on the lounge room floor reading aloud excerpts from a letter from Hilary. 2 MEG: Listen to this bit… 3 EDWIN: This is still from Hilary? 4 MEG: Yeah… [She reads aloud.] ‘I’m doing an English course with the Council of Adult Education. We are studying 5 Chaucer at the moment. It’s very interesting.’ See what I mean? Chaucer is not interesting. Chaucer is very, very dull. 6 EDWIN: So, she finds it interesting. 7 MEG: She does not. She just thinks she should find it interesting, because that’s what being ‘cultured’ is all about. 8 EDWIN: Being conversant with things that are irrelevant and dull. 9 MEG: Exactly. That’s what the whole middle class is like back home. They go off and memorise Shakespeare’s date 10 of birth and a few rhyming couplets so they can sprinkle it in conversation around the barbie. ‘D’you think Kylie’ll 11 bring the coleslaw.’ ‘Ah, To bring or not to bring. That is the question. Shakespeare you know. Born in 1564, 12 strangely enough.’ ‘Yes. Died in 1616. Poor thing. Such a tragedy. Terrific bean salad, Val.’ 13 EDWIN: Ooh, you’re such a snob. 14 MEG: No, I’m not. I don’t care two hoots about Shakespeare, you know that. In fact I’ve often thought that my idea of 15 purgatory would be an everlasting subscription to the Royal Shakespeare Company. 16 EDWIN: I’ll never forget the look on Peter Hall’s face, the night you told him that you thought Othello was dreadfully 17 overwritten. 18 MEG: Ah, you see, that’s one thing I really regret about aging. I resent having to mellow. I’d never say that sort of 19 thing now. 20 EDWIN: Well, that’s just as well I should think. I can just see The Times Literary Supplement. Booker prize nominee 21 Meg Moynihan says that Shakespeare’s plays are dreadfully overwritten. 22 MEG: But that’s what it’s like at home. For all that obsessive nationalism, people still equate ‘culture’ with 23 Shakespeare and Chaucer. 24 Pause. MEG sighs. 25 MEG: I just wish she’d say something about my book. [She wrinkles up her nose.] It’s silly, isn’t it, ’cause on one level 26 I don’t give a damn what she thinks of it – as a piece of ‘literature’. I just want a reaction. Anything. ‘Dear Meg, I 27 found your book excruciatingly turgid.’ 28 EDWIN: Maybe she hasn’t read it yet. Too busy swatting up on Chaucer. 29 Pause. 30 MEG: If you’d written a book, you’d expect your family to read it, wouldn’t you? – How does the writer convey Meg’s attitude towards her sister Hilary and the culture her sister represents? Notes:Chaucer: a major early English poet back home: Australia barbie: barbecue To bring or not to bring. That is the question: adapted quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Peter Hall: famous theatre director