ENG2602 Assignment 3 Semester 2 Answers 2026 - Due 25 August 2026

ENG2601 Assignment 3 Semester 2 Answers 2026 - Due 15 August 2026 ASSIGNMENT: 03 THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPULSORY ASSIGNMENT WEIGHT: 35% ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: Monday, 18 August 202 at 23h00 th Answer the following question. Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo Below is an extract from the play Anowa by Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo. Read it carefully and write a well-structured essay of 800–1000 words (approximately 2 typed pages) in which you critically analyse how the playwright uses didascalia (stage directions), dialogue and rhythm to explore the conflict between cultural expectations and individual choice in the extract. Trigger warning: This extract contains language that some readers may find offensive. Please also note that a few words, spellings, hyphenations, and expressions in this extract may differ from those used in modern English. These reflect the language conventions and editorial style of the original published text and are not necessarily errors. Phase One: “In Yebi” [Lower Stage, Early evening village noises, for example, the pounding of fufu and millet, a goat bleats loudly, a woman calls her child, etc ANOWA enters from lower right, carrying an empty water-pot. She walks to the centre of the lower stage, stops and looks behind her. Then she overturns the water-pot and sits on it facing the audience. She is wearing her cloth wrapped around her. The upper part of her breasts is visible, and also all of her legs. She is slim and slight of build. She turns her face momentarily towards lower left. During a moment when she is looking at her feet, KOFI AKO enters from the lower right. He is a tall, broad, young man, and very good-looking. The village noises die down. He is in work clothes and carrying a fish trap and a bundle of baits. He steals quietly up to her and cries, ‘Hei!’ She is startled but regains her composure immediately. They smile at each other. Just then, a WOMAN comes in from the lower left, carrying a wooden tray which is filled with farm produce — cassava, yam, plantain, pepper, tomatoes etc. Close behind her is a MAN, presumably her husband, also in work-clothes, with a gun on his 6 [OSAM nods his head and exclaims, Oh…oh!] Reference: Aidoo, A.A., 1970. Anowa. Harlow: Longmans. Please note: • Your summary of the extract should not exceed two to three sentences. • Do not use in-text citations or include a reference list. This is a close-reading task, not a research-based assignment. Focus exclusively on the extract and support your analysis with relevant direct quotations from the text.