Observation

A good number of candidates attempted this question, though many of them dwelt mainly on Wara’s character rather than her advancement to the development of the plot.

The required answers should include:

• Wara’s attractive personality, her skill as a seductive dancer and her relationship with Kindo.
• The cave scene and her presence of mind which enables her to extricate herself from the charge of committing sacrilege.
• Whitehead’s lechery and her escape from being raped, which delays and complicates the play’s denouement.
• Her being offered as a sacrificial lamb that never was, being viewed as a stranger, a virgin and Kindo’s woman.
• Her proof that she’s an indigene of Mando land, which shows how people attempt to exploit custom for selfish interests.

Candidates' performance was fair.