Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature June 2024 question paper 1ET0/01

Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macduff and Macbeth in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, the meeting between Macduff and Macbeth becomes violent.

Explain the importance of violence elsewhere in the play.

In your answer, you must consider:

• where violence is shown

• the effects violence has within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Ferdinand and Miranda in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, Ferdinand is determined to be with Miranda and is prepared to suffer any hardship.

Explain the importance of determination elsewhere in the play.

In your answer, you must consider:

• how determination is presented

• the effects determination has within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

Explore how Shakespeare presents the character of Lord Capulet in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, Lord Capulet is angry with Juliet for refusing to marry Paris.

Explain the importance of anger elsewhere in the play.

In your answer, you must consider:

• how anger is presented

• the reasons for anger within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

Explore how Shakespeare presents the character of Benedick in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, Benedick realises his feelings for Beatrice have changed.

Explain the importance of change elsewhere in the play.

In your answer you must consider:

• how change is presented

• the effects change has within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

Explore how Shakespeare presents Duke Orsino in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, Duke Orsino sends for Feste to sing him a song to relieve his sadness.

Explain the importance of sadness elsewhere in the play.

In your answer, you must consider:

• how sadness is presented

• the effects sadness has within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

Explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Jessica and Lorenzo in this extract.

Refer closely to the extract in your answer.

In this extract, Jessica faces the challenge of running away with Lorenzo.

Explain the importance of challenges elsewhere in the play.

In your answer, you must consider:

• how challenges are presented

• the reasons for these challenges within the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

7 Inspector: … she’d used more than one name. But her original name – her real name – was Eva Smith.

Explore how Eva Smith/Daisy Renton is significant in An Inspector Calls.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Sheila: I got that girl sacked from Milwards. And now you’ve made up your mind I must obviously be a selfish, vindictive creature.

In what ways is selfishness important in the play?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Hobson: Look here, Maggie, you’re talking straight and I’ll talk straight and all. When I’m set I’m set. You’re coming here.

How is conflict important in the play?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Stage direction: He is a lanky fellow, about thirty, not naturally stupid but stunted mentally by a brutalized childhood.

Explain the significance of Willie Mossop in Hobson’s Choice.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

11 Edward: If you loved me you’d let me go out with Mickey because he’s my best friend. I like him more than you.

Mrs Lyons: Edward. Edward, don’t say that. Don’t ever say that.

Explain how the relationship between Mrs Lyons and Edward/Eddie is significant in the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Kid Three: ‘Ey, Mother, I’m starvin’ an’ there’s nothin’ in. There never bloody well is.

In what ways are problems important in Blood Brothers ?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

13 Mason: You see, sir, I know the captain can’t stand the sight of apricots. ’E said next time we ’ad them ’e’d wring my neck.

In what ways is Mason significant in the play?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Hardy: Oh, you each have an earwig, and start ’em in a line. On the word ’Go’ you dig your earwig in the ribs and steer him with a match across the table.

Explore the different ways of coping with life in the trenches in Journey’s End.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

15 Hari: I wish I was a wealthy man. Then we could be married and you wouldn’t need to work as a servant for English families. (talking to Rani)

Explain how Hari Sharma is significant in the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Gandhi: So we need reform the system. And to get some representatives in the Imperial Parliament.

How is ambition important in The Empress ?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

17 Mr Kelo: Blood sprays from her mouth in an arch and lands like fine dust on my face.

In what ways is aggression significant in Refugee Boy ?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Mustapha: Father? ‘Father’ … yeah, all our dads’ll be here soon, man.

Explore how Mustapha is important in the play.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

19 We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. (Squealer)

In what ways is the pigs’ control of the farm significant in the novel?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

His answer to every problem, every setback, was ‘I will work harder!’ – which he had adopted as his personal motto. (Narrator describing Boxer)

Explore how determination is important in Animal Farm.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

21 There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs.

In what ways is Piggy different from the rest of the boys in the novel?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer .

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

‘Nobody killed, I hope? Any dead bodies?’

‘Only two. And they’ve gone.’ (Naval officer and Ralph)

Explain the significance of death in Lord of the Flies.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

23 Men in vests and braces, with rumpled hair who clutched half-read papers.

How are the male characters important in the novel?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

I could see children riding their bikes, screeching in and around the parked cars and lines of washing, practising noisy manoeuvres.

Explain the significance of childhood in Anita and Me.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

25 I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humfrye and she had had her revenge. (Kipps)

In what ways are people affected by Jennet Humfrye’s revenge in the novel?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

And above the whinnying and struggling of the pony, the child’s cry, that rose and rose to a scream of terror and was then slowly choked and drowned.

Explore the use of tension in The Woman in Black.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

27 ‘Once my voice has broken, that will be the end of my musical life,’ he had said with anguish. (Alexander)

Explore how Alexander is important in the novel.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

‘Get that lunatic out of here!’ Mr Gaddarn’s voice was deadly. ‘Put him in the map room – the boy too. Lock the door and guard it.’

How is anger significant in Coram Boy ?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

29 Mel wasn’t even nineteen yet. How could she have been stupid enough to have a kid at our age? (Dante)

Explain how teenage parenthood is important in Boys Don’t Cry.

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Josh and I had been mates since we’d both started secondary school, me at ten and Josh at eleven. (Dante)

How is Josh significant in the novel?

You must refer to the context of the novel in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)