Miss Emily and Madame — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Miss Emily and Madame
Characters
What you need to know
How Ishiguro presents Miss Emily and Madame, and how the character develops across the text: the head guardian and the woman who takes the students' art, who ran Hailsham to prove the clones had souls and were afraid of them all along.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'lie in wait', 'the people outside', 'we were able to give you something', 'we kept things from you, lied to you', 'we gave you your childhoods', 'She has worked and worked and worked', 'Is she afraid of you?', 'There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window', 'I'd feel such revulsion', 'ceased to worry about it', 'never did worry about it', 'More cures for the old sicknesses'.
Hailsham as a campaign: the Gallery as proof that the students had souls, Miss Emily's defence of sheltering them, and the fear and revulsion she admits the guardians felt.
Madame's tears at Kathy dancing with a pillow to the song, and what she says she saw.
OCR: Miss Emily's hesitation and self-justifying language in the 2023 extract, and Madame's reaction to the students in Chapter 3 as an unexpected moment.
Context: Hailsham as a well-meaning experiment in more humane conditions, in the spirit of old-fashioned philanthropy.
Quotations are short phrases of a few words, the way you would learn them for a closed-book exam.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
