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English Literature Paper 1 64 marks 40% of Literature GCSE 1 hour 45 mins

Section A: Shakespeare 34 marks 50 mins + 5 mins SPaG check Section B: 19th

Century novel 30 marks 50 mins

You will answer one essay question on Romeo and Juliet: 1. First you will need to write about a given extract from the play. You must

focus on a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s choice of language and the techniques he uses. You must use quotations to support your response. Try to make links to the wider context in your response.

2. Secondly, you will need to refer to the wider play as a whole. You must select key moments and analyse them in detail.

You will be assessed for spelling, punctuation and grammar in this section only. You may be asked to write about: character, theme, imagery, language and/or structure, so will need to have knowledge and understanding of them all.

You will answer one essay question on A Christmas Carol: • You will be required to write in detail about a given extract from

the novel. • You must focus on a detailed analysis of the language and

techniques that Conan Doyle uses. • You will also need to make sure you link your points and analysis

to the wider context of the novel. You may be asked to write about: character, theme, imagery, language and/or structure, so will need to have knowledge and understanding of them all.

AO1 12 mark: Respond to an extract from the play to develop an informed personal response. You must use textual references, including quotations, to support your ideas. AO2 12 marks: Analyse the language, form and structure used by the writer to create meaning and effects. Use relevant subject terminology to support your analysis. AO3 6 marks: Show your understanding of how contextual factors influence our understanding of the play. AO4 4 marks: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity and effect.

AO1 12 marks: Respond to an extract from the novel to develop an informed personal response. You must use textual references, including quotations, to support your ideas. AO2 12 marks: Analyse the language, form and structure used by the writer to create meaning and effects. Use relevant subject terminology to support your analysis. AO3 6 marks: Show your understanding of how contextual factors influence our understanding of the novel.

ROMEO AND

JULIET

Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Romeo tells Friar Laurence that he now loves Juliet.

FRIAR LAURENCE Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine 5 Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! How much salt water thrown away in waste, To season love, that of it doth not taste! The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears; 10 Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet: If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine, Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline: And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then, 15 Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.

ROMEO Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.

FRIAR LAURENCE For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

ROMEO And bad'st me bury love.

FRIAR LAURENCE Not in a grave, 20 To lay one in, another out to have.

ROMEO I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; The other did not so.

FRIAR LAURENCE O, she knew well 25 Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancour to pure love. 30

Starting with this conversation, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence as a good friend to Romeo and a peacemaker.

Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence in this extract • how Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence in the play as a whole.

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AO4 [4 marks]

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Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.

At this point in the play Benvolio and Romeo are discussing love.

BENVOLIO Good-morrow, cousin. ROMEO Is the day so young? BENVOLIO But new struck nine. ROMEO Ay me! sad hours seem long. BENVOLIO What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? 5 ROMEO Not having that, which, having, makes them short BENVOLIO In love? ROMEO Out— BENVOLIO Of love? ROMEO Out of her favor, where I am in love. 10 BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! ROMEO Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? 15 Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! 20 Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? 25 BENVOLIO No, coz, I rather weep. ROMEO Good heart, at what? BENVOLIO At thy good heart's oppression. ROMEO Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, 30 Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; 35 Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:

What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. Farewell, my coz.

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Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents love in this extract • how Shakespeare presents love in the play as a whole.

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 4 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Juliet visits the Friar because her father has arranged for her to marry Paris, but she is already married to the banished Romeo.

ROMEO: Tell me not, Friar, that thou hearest of this, Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, Do thou but call my resolution wise, And with this knife I'll help it presently. 5 God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands, And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's sealed, Shall be the label to another deed, Or my true heart with treacherous revolt Turn to another, this shall slay them both. 10 Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time, Give me some present counsel, or, behold, 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that Which the commission of thy years and art 15 Could to no issue of true honour bring. Be not so long to speak, I long to die, If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

0 2 Starting with this speech, explore how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards love and loyalty in Romeo and Juliet. Write about:

• what Juliet says about love in this speech • how Shakespeare uses language to present attitudes to love in the play as a whole.

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AO4 [4 marks]

Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Romeo is the tomb, about to drink the poison.

ROMEO O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 5 And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps 10 Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee; And never from this palace of dim night Depart again: here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here 15 Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 20 A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love! 25 Drinks O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. Dies

Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents Death as an inevitable consequence in the play. Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents Romeo’s attitude to death in this extract. • how Shakespeare presents death in the play as a whole.

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Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play, Tybalt is asking Mercutio where he can find Romeo.

Enter TYBALT, PETRUCHIO, and others.

BENVOLIO By my head, here comes the Capulets. MERCUTIO By my heel, I care not. TYBALT Follow me close, for I will speak to them. Gentlemen, good den, a word with one of you. MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us? couple it with something, make it a word and a blow. TYBALT You shall find me apt enough to that sir, and you will give me occasion. MERCUTIO Could you not take some occasion without giving? TYBALT Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo. MERCUTIO Consort? what, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear

nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick, here’s that shall make you dance. ‘Zounds, consort!

BENVOLIO We talk here in the public haunt of men: Either withdraw unto some private place, Or reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. MERCUTIO Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze; I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.

Enter ROMEO.

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents conflict.

Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents Mercutio in this extract • how Shakespeare presents conflict in the play as a whole

[30 marks]

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Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. This is from the end of the play when the Prince is speaking to Capulet and Montague.

PRINCE Capulet,--Montague,-- See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen:--all are punish'd 5. CAPULET O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand. MONTAGUE But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; 10 That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet. CAPULET As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! 15 PRINCE A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe 20 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Exeunt

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents family loyalty

Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents family loyalty in this extract • how Shakespeare presents family loyalty in the play as a whole

[30 marks]

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Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Juliet is waiting for the Nurse to come back from meeting Romeo..

JULIET

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.

Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, 5

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

O, I have bought the mansion of a love, 10

But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,

Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day

As is the night before some festival

To an impatient child that hath new robes

And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse, 15

And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks

But Romeo's name speaks heavenly

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards love

Write about:

• what Juliet says about love in this speech • how Shakespeare presents love in the play as a whole

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

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A CHRISTMAS

CAROL

Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol

Read the following extract from stave 1 and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Fred and Scrooge are talking in his office.

Starting with the extract, how does Dickens present Fred?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents Fred in this extract • How Dickens presents Fred in the novel as a whole

Starting with the extract, how does Dickens present Christmas?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents Christmas in this extract • How Dickens presents Christmas in the novel as a whole

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“Uncle!” pleaded the nephew.

“Nephew!” returned the uncle sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”``Keep it!'' repeated Scrooge's nephew. ``But you don't keep it.''

``Let me leave it alone, then,'' said Scrooge. ``Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!''

``There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,'' returned the nephew: ``Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!''

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In this extract, Scrooge is talking to Marley’s ghost.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present ghosts?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents Marley in this extract • How Dickens presents ghosts in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present greed?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents greed in this extract • How Dickens presents greed in the novel as a whole

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Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face.

``Mercy!'' he said. ``Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?''

``Man of the worldly mind!'' replied the Ghost, ``do you believe in me or not?''

`Ì do,'' said Scrooge. `Ì must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?''

`Ìt is required of every man,'' the Ghost returned, ``that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!''

Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain, and wrung its shadowy hands.

``You are fettered,'' said Scrooge, trembling. ``Tell me why?''

`Ì wear the chain I forged in life,'' replied the Ghost. `Ì made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?''

Scrooge trembled more and more.

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Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol Read the following extract from stave 2 and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Scrooge is observing his younger self talking to his then fiancée, Belle.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of minor characters?

Write about: • How Dickens present Belle in this extract • How Dickens presents minor characters in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of isolation?

Write about: • How Dickens present isolation in this extract • How Dickens presents isolation in the novel as a whole

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“You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”

“What then?” he retorted. “Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you.”

She shook her head.

“Am I?”

“Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.”

“I was a boy,” he said impatiently.

“Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are,” she returned. “I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you.”

“Have I ever sought release?”

“In words. No. Never.”

“In what, then?”

“In a changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere of life; another Hope as its great end. In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight. If this had never been between us,” said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; “tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!”

He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. But he said with a struggle, “You think not.”

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In this extract, Scrooge is observing the Cratchit family on Christmas day.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the Cratchits?

Write about:

• How Dickens present Bob in this extract • How Dickens presents the Cratchit family in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social disadvantage?

Write about:

• How Dickens present disadvantage in this extract • How Dickens presents the social disadvantage in the novel as a whole

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Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.

`Ànd how did little Tim behave?'' asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.

`Às good as gold,'' said Bob, `ànd better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.''

Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty. He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. But he said with a struggle, “You think not.”

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs—as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby—compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.

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In this extract, Scrooge is talking to some charity collectors in his office.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract • How dickens present Scrooge in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social responsibility?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents charity in this extract • How dickens present social responsibility in the novel as a whole

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`Àt this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,'' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, `ìt is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.''

“What shall I put you down for?''

``Nothing!'' Scrooge replied.

``You wish to be anonymous?''

`Ì wish to be left alone,'' said Scrooge. ``Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.''

``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.''

`Ìf they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''

``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.

`Ìt's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. `Ìt's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!''

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In this extract, Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the ghosts?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Present in this extract • How Dickens present the ghosts in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Christmas?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Present in this extract • How Dickens present Christmas in the novel as a whole

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“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. “Look upon me!”

Scrooge reverently did so. It was clothed in one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice. Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.

“You have never seen the like of me before!” exclaimed the Spirit.

“Never,” Scrooge made answer to it.

“Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later years?” pursued the Phantom.

“I don’t think I have,” said Scrooge. “I am afraid I have not. Have you had many brothers, Spirit?”

“More than eighteen hundred,” said the Ghost.

“A tremendous family to provide for!” muttered Scrooge.

The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.

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In this extract, Scrooge is speaking to the Ghost of Christmas Past at Fezziwig’s party.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the minor characters?

Write about:

• How Dickens present Fezziwig in this extract • How does Dickens present the minor characters in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social responsibility?

Write about:

• How Dickens present Fezziwig in this extract • How does Dickens present the social responsibility in the novel as a whole

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When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas. When everybody had retired but the two 'prentices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.

`À small matter,'' said the Ghost, ``to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.''

``Small!'' echoed Scrooge.

The Spirit signed to him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their hearts in praise of Fezziwig: and when he had done so, said,

``Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?''

`Ìt isn't that,'' said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. `Ìt isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.'' “More than eighteen hundred,” said the Ghost.

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In this extract, Scrooge is in his bedroom with the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge as isolated?

Write about:

• How Dickens present Scrooge in this extract • How Dickens present Scrooge in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present isolation?

Write about:

• How Dickens present isolation in this extract • How Dickens present isolation in the novel as a whole

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``Spirit!'' said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. ``I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now. Merciful Heaven, what is this!''

He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language.

The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.

Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom. Its steady hand was pointed to the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face. He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.

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In this extract, Scrooge is listening to some business men talking.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present greed?

Write about:

• How Dickens presents greed in this extract • How Dickens presents greed in the novel as a whole

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“No,” said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, “I don’t know much about it, either way. I only know he’s dead.”

“When did he die?” inquired another.

“Last night, I believe.”

“Why, what was the matter with him?” asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box. “I thought he’d never die.”

“God knows,” said the first, with a yawn.

“What has he done with his money?” asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock.

“I haven’t heard,” said the man with the large chin, yawning again. “Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn’t left it to me. That’s all I know.”

This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” said the same speaker; “for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?”

“I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided,” observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. “But I must be fed, if I make one.”

Another laugh.

“Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all,” said the first speaker, “for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I’ll offer to go, if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I’m not at all sure that I wasn’t his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye, bye!”

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English Literature Paper 2 96 marks 60% of Literature GCSE 2 hours 15 mins

Section A: Modern Text 34 marks 45 mins + 5 mins SPaG check

Section B: Poetry Anthology 30 marks 45 mins

You will answer one essay question on An Inspector Calls:

1. You will be given a choice of two questions, but you must only choose one.

2. This essay will test your understanding of character, theme, language and/or structure.

3. Try to make links to the wider context in your response.

You will be assessed for spelling, punctuation and grammar in this section only. You may be asked to write about: character, theme, imagery, language and/or structure, so will need to have knowledge and understanding of them all.

You will answer one essay question about the Power and Conflict poems:

• You will be required to write in detail about a named poem from the LPower and Conflict poems, and then compare this with another poem from the same cluster.

• You must focus on a detailed analysis of the language and techniques that the poet uses.

• You will also need to make sure you link your points and analysis to the wider context of the poems.

You will be expected to be able to write about: subjects, themes, imagery, language and structure where relevant in relation to the question and poem. You will need to be able to make links and connections between poems in the cluster, having confidence to discuss similarities and differences in how they convey ideas about love and relationships.

AO1 12 marks AO2 12 marks AO3 6 marks AO4 4 marks

AO1 12 marks AO2 12 marks AO3 6 marks

Section B: Unseen Poetry 32 marks 30 mins – Q1 10 mins – Q2

You will answer one question on one unseen poem and one question on another unseen poem.

• You will be required to about the first poem only for the first question.

• For the second question, you will need to compare the two poems you have been given.

You will need to carefully consider what the question is asking to guide your analysis, then refer to aspects of subject, themes, imagery, language and structure to answer the questions. You should read the poems at least twice through in order to check your best understanding.

Q1: AO1 12 marks AO2 12 marks Q2: AO2 8 marks

AN

INSPECTOR CALLS

How and why does Sheila change?

Write about:

• how Sheila responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Sheila by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley present Mr Birling?

Write about:

• how Mr Birling responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Mr Birling by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

What lessons do we learn through the character of Gerald?

Write about:

• how Gerald behaves throughout the play

• how Priestley presents Gerald by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley present Mr Birling?

Write about:

• how Mrs Birling responds to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Mrs Birling by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

What lessons do we learn through the character of the Inspector?

Write about:

• how the Inspector speaks to the family

• how Priestley presents the Inspector by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

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How does Priestley present Eric?

Write about:

• how Eric responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Eric by the ways he writes

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley explore the class divide in the play?

Write about:

• the ideas about social class in An Inspector Calls

• how Priestley presents these ideas by the ways he writes.

[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley present guilt and responsibility?

Write about:

• the ideas about guilt and responsibility in An Inspector Calls


[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

What lessons do we learn about responsibility?

Write about:

• the ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls


[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley explore conflict in the play?

Write about:

• the ideas about conflict in An Inspector Calls


[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

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‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people’. How does Priestley examine attitudes to social class?

Write about:

• the ideas about social class in An Inspector Calls


[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

How does Priestley show the differences between the older and younger generations in this play?

Write about:

• the ideas about the older and younger generations in An Inspector Calls


[30 marks]

AO4 [4 marks]

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Power and

Conflict Poetry

Compare how poets present attitudes towards a personal tragedy in ‘Bayonet Charge’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’.

[30 marks]

2 5

Bayonet Charge

Ted Hughes

Suddenly he awoke and was running – raw In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy, Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing Bullets smacking the belly out of the air – He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm; The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest, –

In bewilderment then he almost stopped – In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second? He was running Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs Listening between his footfalls for the reason Of his still running, and his foot hung like Statuary in mid-stride. Then the shot-slashed furrows

Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide Open silent, its eyes standing out. He plunged past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm To get out of that blue crackling air His terror’s touchy dynamite.

Compare how poets present attitudes ideas about the impact of conflict in ‘War Photographer’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’.

[30 marks]

2 5

War Photogrpaher

In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat. Something is happening. A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries of this man’s wife, how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust. A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care.

Carol Ann Duffy

Compare how poets present the horrors of war in ‘Exposure’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’’.

[30 marks]

2 5

Exposure

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient . . . Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here? The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow . . . We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, But nothing happens. Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, We watch them wandering up and down the wind's nonchalance, But nothing happens. Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces— We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. —Is it that we are dying? Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed,— We turn back to our dying. Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; Now ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, For love of God seems dying.

Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, Shrivelling many hands, and puckering foreheads crisp. The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens.

Wilfred Owen

Compare how poets present ideas about the effects of war in ‘Poppies and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’.

[30 marks]

2 5

Poppies

Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves. Before you left, I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer. Sellotape bandaged around my hand, I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could, smoothed down your shirt's upturned collar, steeled the softening of my face. I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose, play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little. I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair. All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest. A split second and you were away, intoxicated. After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage. Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, and this is where it has led me, skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves. On reaching the top of the hill I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone. The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind.

Jane Weir

Compare how poets present ideas about abuse of power in ‘London’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’.

[30 marks]

2 5

London

I wander thro’ each charter’d street,

Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.

And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,

In every Infants cry of fear,

In every voice: in every ban,

The mind-forg’d manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry

Every black’ning Church appalls,

And the hapless Soldiers sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro’ midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlots curse

Blasts the new-born Infants tear

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

William Blake

Compare how poets present ideas about the power of nature in ‘The Prelude’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’.

2 5

The Prelude (extract)

One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cove, its usual home. Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Pushed from the shore. It was an act of stealth And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on; Leaving behind her still, on either side, Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge, The horizon's utmost boundary; far above Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan; When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, And growing still in stature the grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. With trembling oars I turned, And through the silent water stole my way Back to the covert of the willow tree; There in her mooring-place I left my bark, - And through the meadows homeward went, in grave And serious mood; but after I had seen That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude

[30 marks]

Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.

William Wordsworth

UNSEEN POETRY

2 7 .1 In, ‘All Grown Up’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her child?

[24 marks]

All Grown Up

Today you can be my flower and tomorrow be my song, Next year will come too quickly though now it seems so long. I remember when you'd get a book and have me read aloud, I remember when I'd pick you up to see beyond the crowd. I remember when you hugged me tight, and when you held my hand, just a tiny little miracle walking on this land. I remember going on the slide. . . you made me tag along, Now you can go, all alone. . . how did you get so strong? I watch you grow before my eyes, and I cannot believe, you were once so tiny and so scared, tugging at my sleeve. For now you seem so all grown up and it's hard to let you go. Cause once you were my little one who was young and didn't know, but now you know most everything and who ever would've thought, that you'd remember all those things. . . those things that I had taught.

Sasha Baker

In both, ‘To My Grown Up Child’ and ‘All Grown Up’, the speakers describe feelings about watching someone they love grow up. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

[8 marks]

2 7 .2

To My Grown Up Child

My hands were busy through the day; I didn’t have much time to play The little games you asked me to. I didn’t have much time for you.

I’d wash your clothes, I’d sew and cook, But when you’d bring your picture book And ask me please to share your fun I’d say: “A little later, son.”

I’d tuck you in all safe at night and hear your prayers, turn out the lights, Then tip toe softly to the door… I wish I’d stayed a minute more.

For life is short, the years rush past… A little boy grows up so fast. No longer is he at your side His precious secrets to confide.

The picture books are put away, There are no longer games to play, No good-night kiss, No prayers to hear… That all belongs to yesteryear.

My hands, once busy, now are still, The days are long and hard to fill, I wish I could go back and do The little things you asked me to.

Alice Chase

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2 7 .1 In, ‘Tramp’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about homeless people?

[24 marks]

Tramp

This mad prophet

gibbers* mid-traffic,

wringing his hands

whilst mouthing at heaven.

No messages for us.

His conversation is simply

a passage through time.

He points and calls.

Our uneven stares dissuade*

approach. We fear him, his

matted hair, patched coat,

grey look from sleeping out.

We mutter amongst ourselves

and hope he keeps away. No

place for him in our heaven,

there it’s clean and empty.

* gibbers – speaks so fast it sounds like nonsense

*dissuade – persuade against

Rupert M. Loydell

In both, ‘Decomposition’ and ‘Tramp’, the speakers describe feelings about watching a homeless person. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

[8 marks]

2 7 .2

Decomposition

I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and a dirty shirt, his shadow thrown aside like a blanket. His arms and legs could be cracks in the stone; routes for the ants’ journeys, the flies’ descents. brain-washed by the sun into exhaustion, he lies veined into stone, a fossil man. Behind him, there is a crowd passingly bemused by a pavement trickster and quite indifferent to this very common sight of an old man asleep on the pavement. I thought it was a good composition and glibly called it The Man in the Street, remarking how typical it was of India that the man in the street lived there. His head in the posture of one weeping into a pillow chides me* now for my presumption at attempting to compose art out of his hunger and solitude.

*chides me – tells me off

Zulfikar Ghose

In, ‘Rejection’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about lost love?

[24 marks]

2 7 .1

Rejection

Rejection is orange Not, as one might think, Grey and nondescript. It is the vivid orange of A council worker’s jacket. A coat of shame that says ‘he doesn’t want you.’ Rejection tastes like ashes Acrid, bitter. It sounds Like the whisper of voices Behind my back. ‘He didn’t want her. He dumped her.’ It feels Like the scraping of fingernails On a blackboard, Not ache or stab of pain But like having a layer of skin missing. Rejection looks like - me, I suppose. Slightly leftover Like the last, curled sandwich When all the guests Have gone.

Jenny Sullivan

In both, ‘Years Ago’ and ‘Rejection’, the speakers describe feelings about remembering a past relationship. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

[8 marks]

2 7 .2

Years Ago

It was what we did not do that I remember, places with no markers left by us, All of a summer, meeting every day, A memorable summer of hot days, Day after day of them, evening after evening. Sometimes we would laze Upon the river-bank, just touching hands Or stroking one another’s arms with grasses. Swans floated by seeming to assert Their dignity. But we too had our own Decorum* in the small-change of first love. Nothing was elegiac* or nostalgic, We threw time in the river as we threw Breadcrumbs to an inquisitive duck, and so Day entered evening with a sweeping gesture, Idly we talked of food and where to go. This is the love that I knew long ago. Before possession, passion, and betrayal. . *Decorum - suitable behaviour *elegiac - mournful or sad

Elizabeth Jennings

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