La synthèse de document en anglais | Proposition de rédaction
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Partie 1 (16 pts) | Prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais :
Write a short commentary on the three documents (minimum 500 words): Taking into account their specificities, you will analyse how Art can be used as a powerful weapon to raise awareness for a large variety of causes.
Write a short commentary on the three documents (minimum 500 words): Taking into account their specificities, you will analyse how Art can be used as a powerful weapon to raise awareness for a large variety of causes.
Partie 2 (4 pts) | Version. Traduisez en français le texte ci-dessous extrait du document A.
The men wear white coats, like those worn by doctors or scientists. Doctors and scientists aren't the only ones, there are others, but they must have had a run on them this morning. Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. They were doctors, then, in the time before, when such things were legal. Angel makers, they used to call them; or was that something else? They've been turned up now by searches through hospital records, or, or — more likely, since most hospitals destroyed such records once it became clear what was going to happen — by informants: ex-nurses perhaps, or a pair of them, since evidence from a single woman is no longer admissible; or another doctor, hoping to save his own skin; or someone already accused, lashing out at an enemy, or at random, in some desperate bid for safety. Though informants are not always pardoned
Chapter 6, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margret Atwood (1985)
Proposition de correction pour la synthèse
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Introduction
Art is defined as the use of the imagination to express ideas or feelings, particularly in painting, drawing, literature or sculpture. As the president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, Robert L. Lynch, said: “The arts empower. The arts give a voice to the voiceless.”. For this essay, we have three documents at our disposal. The first document is an extract from the 6th chapter of Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” which was published in 1985. The second document is a press article which was published in the New York Times on May 3rd, 2022. It is entitled “Florida Lawmakers Vote to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks”. The third and last document is a photograph taken by Frances Mulraney on September 22nd, 2017. It depicts Irish women
The purpose of this essay is to discuss how the documents deal with the ways art – here literature journalism and photography - can be used as a powerful tool to raise awareness for a large variety of causes, especially for women’s rights and abortion.
In the framework of this analysis, I will be discussing the extent to which art can be used to convey certain feelings and emotions, and also how it can raise awareness regarding women’s rights.
Début de la partie 1
The three documents are different kinds of art. Two of them are pieces of writing while the third one is a photograph. Margaret Atwood's novel is a dystopian story (or speculative fiction as the author would put it) that instils fear in the reader. In this extract, Offred and another handmaid, Ofglen, are going shopping. It is not the first time they have been together and it is obvious that both of them do not get the opportunity to leave the house they are assigned to very often. Indeed, they are taking the long way around: “we already know which way we will take, because we always take it”. Right after this, the reader is given a detailed description of the maids’ outfits they have to wear every day: “It’s hard to look up, hard to get a full view, of the sky, of anything”. Even when they are outside, they cannot (or can barely) catch a glimpse of what is going on around them. This highlights the fact that these outfits are oppressive and suffocating for the women who must wear them. In addition, it is clear that the women are not free at all: “we’re not allowed on, there are Guardians now”. After walking up to the church where “admission is free”, they turned away from the building to see the thing “[they’ve] in truth come to see: the Wall”. The bodies of six men, their heads covered with bags, hang from metal hooks embedded in the Wall. One man's injuries have left a smile-shaped bloodstain on the front of the bag. The men's white coats indicate that these people were, in the past, doctors who performed abortions. “It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive” (lines 67-68). In this harrowing [distressing / atroce] description of a public execution, Offred observes that the “criminals” are abortionists.
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