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The following previous papers were used to compile these notes: SACAI NOV 2020/ TERM 3 LITERATURE TEST GRADE 10, SACAI JUNE 2020 & 2021
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Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)
The following previous papers were used to compile these notes: SACAI NOV 2020/ TERM 3 LITERATURE
TEST GRADE 10, SACAI JUNE 2020 & 2021
ESSAY (SACAI NOV 2020)
The tension that Salieri experiences in his relationship with God results in his tragedy and
ultimate confession. Critically discuss this statement, in a well-constructed essay of 300 – 350
words (1 – 1½ pages)
→ Salieri praises God through his music.
→ Salieri turns his back on his noble commitments when he feels that God has favoured Mozart
over him. When Salieri decides that God has granted the gift of inspiration to Mozart, whom he
deems unworthy, he feels betrayed, claiming that God has been actively toying with Salieri’s
devotion and desires.
→ He concludes that God has been taunting him by giving him the desire to serve and praise God,
and the ability to recognize true art, only after ensuring his own mediocrity.
→ Salieri’s God cruelly flaunts the ‘spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine’ Mozart in front of
Salieri as one of His chosen to point out Salieri’s inferiority and thus humiliate him.
DRAMA – Amadeus
Juffrou Ansie
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→ The final irony, one that Salieri uses to help him destroy Mozart, is that Salieri is the only person
at that time who can recognize Mozart’s greatness.
→ As a result of what he considers to be God’s injustice, Salieri decides to exact his own form of
justice regarding Mozart, even though he risks damnation.
→ After reading Mozart’s manuscripts and appreciating the exquisite beauty of his work, Salieri
confesses that his life then required this ‘terrible and thrilling purpose’.
→ Salieri hints at his plan to destroy Mozart when he insists that he will now engage in ‘a battle to
the end’ with God and that Mozart will be the
‘battleground’.
→ Ironically though, according to Salieri, God exacted His
own justice, perhaps in response to Salieri’s treatment
of Mozart.
→ Salieri concludes that God constructed an intricate
and cruel plan to punish him: first, God ensured that
Salieri would enjoy the recognition and appreciation
of the public who was not capable of recognizing true
art. Then, that recognition would be taken away from
him and replaced with the public’s growing
appreciation for Mozart’s music.
→ Mozart is penniless, out of favour with the Masons
and desperate.
→ Mozart dies and Salieri becomes more famous – then
Mozart’s music becomes famous while Salieri’s fades away
– a clear indication that genius has conquered mediocrity.
→ Salieri ends his life, desperate to be remembered – he has come to the realization that he will
never be famous for his music and spread rumours and finally a false confession to be infamous
after his death.
DRAMA – Amadeus
Juffrou Ansie
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