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The response argues barmaids are positively celebrated rather than only treated as figures of fun, focusing on Bet Bouncer and Kate Hardcastle through plot moments, character relationships, and selected quotations. It considers Goldsmith’s dramatic methods, including structure, language, and gender and social-class contexts of comedic effect. 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Bet Bouncer is the barmaid who is most celebrated even though she does not say anything in the play. Barmaids are also celebrated through Kate Hardcastle who becomes one and enjoys being one.  \nTony Lumpkin is in love with Bet Bouncer and he positively celebrates her and the inn where she works. He loves going to the Three Jolly Pigeons especially because his mother and step father disapprove and he sings songs with his low class friends to show how much fun he is having when he is there. This is a key part of the play’s comedy. Although his mother wants him to marry his wealthy cousin Constance, he only has thoughts of Bet. He tells Hastings that she is really beautiful with black eyes and broad red cheeks like a ‘cushion’. He agrees to enter into a plan with Hastings so that he will take Constance off his hands and then he can be happy with ‘dear Betsy’. When the plotting becomes complicated towards the end of the play and everyone is angry with Tony he thinks of another plan. He is so sure of his success that he says if it doesn’t work he will leave Hastings and Marlow his horse and Bet Bouncer too. In saying this he seems to be saying that she is his highest prize and is therefore celebrated. When everything is resolved at the end and everyone is happy – except for Mrs Hardcastle, Tony learns that he is of age to do as he pleases. Nothing is said about Bet Bouncer at the end of the actual play in Act 5, but Goldsmith knows that the audience wants to know about how she ends up so he gives a speech to Tony Lumpkin in the Epilogue. In the speech he speaks in rhyming couplets and he sounds really happy. He is going to London with ‘big Bet Bouncer’ and he  \nthinks they will both be celebrated by the posh people in London when they ‘set the fashions’ and go to the opera and theatre and when they walk through the streets. Because this is the ending of the whole play then it is fair to say that barmaids are celebrated.  \nThe other barmaid in the play is Kate Hardcastle but she only pretends to be one. Even so she is celebrated because Marlow falls in love with her and he is even prepared to marry her even though she is of a low class – or so he thinks. At the end of the play he confesses his love to her. He says she is beautiful and graceful and virtuous. He even gets down on his knees to express his feelings. When he first meets her though, he is only interested in her sexual attraction and her low class because he does not feel embarrassed in front of low class women. In an earlier conversation he has with Hastings he says he has always felt comfortable talking to low class women but high class women make him feel awkward and he cannot look them in the eye. When Kate is herself – the girl his father wants him to marry, he stammers and gets confused.  \nKate can also be seen by the audience as the play’s heroine so she could be celebrated because of the way she plays the part of a barmaid and gets the better of Marlow. Kate is clearly confident and friendly and on stage the audience would see her outgoing personality in the way she serves beer and wine to her customers and the way she flirts with Marlow. They would also enjoy her lower class speech and the way that she deliberately misunderstands what Marlow says. When he says he wants a taste of the nectar or her lips she pretends to not know wha","cbCailmjGPPJ2gRz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailmjGPPJ2gRz","pdf",51441,"English","# Sample script\n## Question focus: comedy and barmaids\n## Bet Bouncer\n## Kate Hardcastle\n# Examiner commentary\n## AO1\n## AO2\n## AO3\n## AO4\n## AO5","[{\"question\":\"What is the central question this exemplar response addresses?\",\"answer\":\"It explores the view that, in She Stoops to Conquer, barmaids are not merely figures of fun but are positively celebrated.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the response use Bet Bouncer to support the argument?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes Tony Lumpkin’s admiration and celebration of Bet, and links the Epilogue speech to the idea that the audience wants her resolution, suggesting she is celebrated.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the examiner commentary say about the candidate’s treatment of Goldsmith’s methods?\",\"answer\":\"The examiner notes that understanding is present but discussion of dramatic methods is not very probing, with limited depth about structure and language.\"}]","Aspects of comedy - Exemplar student response and commentary (AS Paper 1, Section B) | PDF",1792467898]