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Cópia de Beatriz Carvalho Reis Vieira Baiardi - IO Outline Form - Official

The document outlines an individual oral assessment focused on the global issue of how male-imposed identities on female characters can lead to personal rebellion and mental illness. It analyzes Frida Kahlo's painting 'The Two Fridas' and Jean Rhys's novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea,' exploring themes of identity loss and rebellion against patriarchal constraints. Key points include the struggle for identity and the consequences of imposed roles on mental health, illustrated through the characters' experiences and actions.

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Cópia de Beatriz Carvalho Reis Vieira Baiardi - IO Outline Form - Official

The document outlines an individual oral assessment focused on the global issue of how male-imposed identities on female characters can lead to personal rebellion and mental illness. It analyzes Frida Kahlo's painting 'The Two Fridas' and Jean Rhys's novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea,' exploring themes of identity loss and rebellion against patriarchal constraints. Key points include the struggle for identity and the consequences of imposed roles on mental health, illustrated through the characters' experiences and actions.

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Language A: Internal Assessment - Individual Oral

Outline Form

Global issue: To what extent is the new identity imposed by men upon female characters an
opportunity for the development of a personal rebellion and mental illness?

Areas of Inquiry: Culture, Identity and Community.


Texts chosen:
Frida Kahlo, “The two Fridas” ( 1939 ).

Jean Rhys, “Wide Sargasso Sea” ( 2006 ), pages 122 and 123.

1- After a long time I heard her say as if she were talking to


2- herself, 'I have said all I want to say. I have tried to make you
3- understand. But nothing has changed. She laughed.
4- 'Don't laugh like that, Bertha.'
5- 'My name is not Bertha; why do you call me Bertha?
6- 'Because it is a name I'm particularly fond of. I think of you
7- as Bertha.'
8- 'It doesn't matter,' she said.
9- I said, 'When you went off this morning where did you go?"
10- 'I went to see Christophine, she said. 'I will tell you any-
11- thing you wish to know, but in a few words because words are
12- no use, I know that now?'
13- "Why did you go to see her?'
14- 'I went to ask her to do something for me.'
15- 'And did she do it?'
16- 'Yes.' Another long pause.
17- 'You wanted to ask her advice, was that it?'
18- She did not answer.
19- "What did she say?'
20- 'She said that I ought to go away - to leave you?
21- 'Oh did she?' I said, surprised.
22- 'Yes, that was her advice?'
23- I want to do the best for both of us, I said. 'So much of
24- what you tell me is strange, different from what I was led to
25- expect. Don't you feel that perhaps Christophine is right? That
26- if you went away from this place or I went away - exactly as
27-you wish of course - for a time, it might be the wisest thing
28- we could do?' Then I said sharply, 'Bertha, are you asleep, are
29- you ill, why don't you answer me?' I got up, went over to her
30- chair and took her cold hands in mine. 'We've been sitting
31- here long enough, it is very late.'
32- "You go, she said. 'I wish to stay here in the dark... where
33- I belong, she added.
34- 'Oh nonsense, I said. I put my arms round her to help her
35- up, I kissed her, but she drew away.
36- "Your mouth is colder than my hands, she said. I tried to
37- laugh. In the bedroom, I closed the shutters. 'Sleep now, we
38- will talk things over tomorrow?
39- 'Yes, she said, 'of course, but will you come in and say
40- goodnight to me?'
41- "Certainly I will, my dear Bertha?
42- 'Not Bertha tonight, she said.
43- "Of course, on this of all nights, you must be Bertha?
44- 'As you wish, she said.

Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points):

1- “The Two Fridas”, Frida Kahlo 1939, the year she broke up with her husband, Diego Riviera.

2- Tehuana with the healthy heart and European with the broken heart auto sabotaging herself.

3- Unhappy version of herself with the traits her husband asserts, losing her original identity,
developing mental illness.

4- Act of the “New Frida” cutting the artery reflects a struggle to break free from imposed roles.

5- Act of self portraiture in the context of heartbreak becomes a form of expressing personal
rebellion.

6- “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Jean Rhys 2006, “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë sidequel.

7- Rochester starts calling Antoinette “Bertha”, trying to erase her Creole identity and impose his
power over her.

8- Antoinette strips away her personal identity as Rochester's obligation to fit in the patriarchal and
colonial worldview.

9- Antoinette starts a personal rebellion due to her mental illness provoked by the lack of identity.

10- Antoinette set Rochester's house on fire as a form of expressing her personal rebellion against
who made her suffer.

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