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International Baccalaureate
Form 2/WTRF
Written tasks rationale form: language A2

SUBMIT TO: EXAMINER ARRIVAL DATE: 15 SEP SESSION:NOV 12
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SCHOOL NAME: Santiago College
Type or write legibly using black ink and retain a copy of this form.
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SUBJECT: English A2 LEVEL: HL_____
CANDIDATE NAME : Javiera Sandoval
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Option to which the task is linked. If literary option, the text title(s) should be included (for example, George Orwell, 1984). If cultural option, the topic should be included (for example, media-propaganda).
Literary Option. William Shakespeare, Othello.Title (if appropriate): Desdemona’s letter to Othello in her diary.
Area of communication and type of text: Poetic Communication. Diary entry.
Subject: Desdemona’s point of view and emotions.
Purpose: Explain Desdemona’s point of view of her supposedly affair with Cassio and express her profound love to Othello.
Audience: Othello.
Context (where appropriate):Desdemona wrote it right before Othello killed her.

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love for Othello in the best way I could and that it could resemble to how she describes her love in the play. The finalthing I used that I think was really good and convincing and also ironic is the ending. I think that ending the letter with “Yours truly for the eternity,” makes the feelings more passionate and it is ironic because she dies after she writes this letter and even if she dies, she would always have love for him no matter what the circumstances are.
The task shows my understanding on the play veryclearly as it expresses Desdemona’s feelings that are conveyed throughout the whole play, they are not feelings that you can perceive just by reading the last part of the novel. It also explains the situation of the supposed affair, which was not true, from a point of view that you had to read the whole play to get a compete sense of what the circumstances were, and what situations were true.Finally, it tells us about the tragic end of the play, and by this being a letter just before a death, makes the end of the play even more striking than what it already is.

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Cyprus, June 9, 1604
Dear diary:
My last days have been horrible. There are so many things that I would like to say to the love of my life, Othello. I can`t believe that hethought that I was capable of doing something like this. I decided to write a letter to him expressing my feelings, but I do not dare to give it to him. I wish I could be more courageous and hand it to him so he knows what really happened. This is the letter that I wrote to him:
My dearest Othello:
I write this letter to thee with the hopes that thou hast the will to understand the place where I amstanding right now. Lately I have noticed that thou art somehow mad at me and I cannot help but to try to understand what is happening here. It makes me wonder, dost thou really think that I am betraying thee? How could an idea like that be in my husband’s mind? How dost thou dare to believe what others say and not believe thy own loving wife? I have been next to thee for a long time now and I...