Question 8
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
Discuss the role of Tony Lumpkin in connection with any three mistakes in the play.
Observation
A good number of candidates attempted this question.
Candidates were expected to discuss the following points:
- Tony full of tricks.
- Tony misleading the guests.
- Tony and Constance pretending to be in love.
- Tony contriving to retrieve Constance’s jewels from his mother’s custody.
- Tony driving his mother round about the house.
- Tony the originator of mistakes.
Candidates’ performance in this question was fair.