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English  assessment    
 
Context  introduction:    
The  two  texts  I  will  be  writing  about  are  Reading  gaol:  a  poem  written  by  Oscar  
Wilde  in  1897  after  he  was  released  from  Reading  gaol
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When  releasing  the  poem  he  published  it  under  the  name  c
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3,  which  stands  for  
cellblock  C,  landing  3,  cell  3
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 It  was  not  commonly  known,  until  the  7th  printing  in  June  
1899,  that  C
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 The  second  text  I  will  be  writing  about  is  
called  Marshalsea  written  by  the  Victorian  novelist  Charles  Dickens
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 An  Act  of  Parliament  closed  the  Marshalsea  
in  1842,  and  on  19  November  that  year  the  inmates  were  relocated  to  the  
Bethlem  Hospital  if  they  were  mentally  ill,  or  to  the  King's  Bench  Prison  at  that  
point  renamed  the  Queen's  Prison
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Section  1:  The  prison  is  presented  as  inhumane  in  Reading  gaol
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 He  suggests  the  prison  wardens  to  be  pitiless  and  strict,  as  they  do  not  
care  for  the  prisoners  and  let  them  “rot”  and  fed  them  “bitter  bread”  filled  with  
“chalk  and  lime”,  used  as  an  old  technique  to  cheapen  the  cost  of  bread
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 “  I  know  no  whether  laws  be  right,  or  whether  laws  be  
wrong”
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 All  these  create  the  
cold-­‐blooded  feeling  to  the  poem
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 Like  Reading  gaol,  it  highlights  the  filth  within  the  prison  saying  
“squalid”
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 It  shows  the  cells  as  “confined”  
combined  with  the  “high  walls  dully  spiked  at  the  top”  surrounding  the  prison,  this  
shows  the  unfriendly,  negative  environment  the  prisoners  experienced  whilst  being  in  
the  Marshalsea  prison
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 We  describe  it  as  ‘paying  of  their  debt’  he  instead  evoked  the  idea  of  
being  forced  into  the  prison
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 However,  there  is  a  subtle  difference  as  Oscar  Wilde:  writer  of  
Reading  gaol,  experienced  prison  first  hand  but  Charles  Dickens  experienced  it  second  
hand,  as  rather  than  him  being  imprisoned  his  father  was

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