Exemple d'oral de LLCE terminale

Here is my portfolio.                                                                                                      It’s composed of

1 extract from play called Death of a Salesman, (selssman)                                                                                   1 painting from the 19th C (nineteenth century)                                                       and a poem by Charlotte Brontë                                                                                and finally a song called Boys don’t cry by The Cure. (quieu(r)

This year we studied (steudid) the theme (sème) of self-expression and self-construction. 

So I wondered (wonderd) how emotion is used in art.                                                               Well, I will first deal                                                                                                             with the emotions felt by artists before making a work of art.                                   Then I’ll focus                                                                                                                  on emotions felt by the characters themselves                                                                       and finally                                                                                                                                   by the spectators, viewers, listeners and readers.

In order to create an artwork any artist must feel emotions and                                 I’m going to focus on the emotions of authors.                                                         In the 19th C (nineteenth century),                                                                   Charlotte Brontë, known as a writer now wrote a poem entitled “The Teacher’s Monologue”.                                                                                                                       It was at a complicated moment in her life. At that time, she felt a deep sadness due to her job as a teacher at Roe Head School which was far away from her homeplace.                                                                                                   Her poem which is autobiographical, contains a list of words from the lexical field of sadness like                                                                                                                     “to grieve” (l.25),                                                                                                    “morn” (l.27),                                                                                                        “despair” (l.18),                                                                                                    “suffering done” (l.11)                                                                                                 and there is also the last verse “to suffer to the end !”.                                        This quote reflects the emotional condition of the author when she was writing. She is suffering much pain.

Similarly                                                                                                                      Arthur Miller was full of strong feelings which led him to write “Death of a Salesman”. Here it is not sadness, he admits that he was full of anger. This anger was caused by injustice and more specifically by social injustice.                      Because Arthur Miller was from a moderately affluent family until              his father failed his coat-manufacturing business during the Wall Street Crash of 1929.                                                                                                                        After that, his family moved to humble districts in Brooklyn.                                 In a lot of his plays he denounces McCarthyism.                                                     But in “Death of a Salesman”, he expresses his anger against capitalism.

Like his parents, his character Willy Loman is a lower middle class man. He has been a salesman all his life. He’s 63 and still need to work to make his family live. They haven’t finished paying the house, the fridge or can’t afford a good car. He doesn’t earn enough; being a salesman, going from door to door to sell we don’t know what doesn’t necessarily mean earning a lot of money. 

Now, I’m going to highlight how opposite and extreme the feelings of characters can be.                                                                                                      Some can go from bliss to a deep sadness, others go from Love to hatred or from hatred to Love.                                                                                                       In two of our documents the protagonists underwent quite opposite feelings. So in “Death of a Salesman”, Willy Loman is often angry,                                  .angry against his wife,                                                                                               .against his 2 sons                                                                                                            .or against his boss.                                                                                                            I’m going to quote (read from l.9 to “commissions”).                                             The 4 exclamation marks stress the fact that                                                             .he can’t stand the situation (his boss wants to dismiss him)                                  .and shouts reminding the past, all that he had done for the company and the disrespect of his boss when, for the first time he’s asking for something (to stop travelling and to work in a office in NY).                                                                                And then, a few minutes later, he is overjoyed going to a restaurant with his sons and planning to plant seeds in his garden.

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