Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 June 2025 question paper 1ET0/02

Explore how Brontë presents Jane Eyre’s observations of Miss Miller and Lowood School in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Jane describes her first few hours at Lowood School.

Explain how Jane’s experiences at Lowood School are presented elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• what Jane experiences at Lowood School

• who Jane meets at Lowood School and their influence on her.

Explore how Dickens presents Pip’s meeting with ‘the pale young gentleman’ in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Pip meets ‘the pale young gentleman’, Herbert Pocket, for the first time.

Explain how Herbert Pocket is significant elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• what Herbert says and does

• how Pip and Herbert become good friends.

Explore how Stevenson presents the murder of Sir Danvers Carew in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, the maidservant has the shocking experience of witnessing a murder.

Explain how shocking events are explored elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who has a shock and when

• what happens to shock them.

Explore how Dickens presents Scrooge and Marley’s Ghost in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Marley’s Ghost speaks of his regrets and his ‘Incessant torture of remorse’.

Explain how regret is important elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• how Scrooge learns to regret the actions of his past

• what Scrooge does to put right his regrets about the past.

Explore how Austen presents Mrs Bennet in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Mrs Bennet is very excited about the marriage of Lydia to Mr Wickham.

Explain how marriage is important elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• the different opinions about marriage

• who gets married during the course of the novel.

Explore how Eliot presents the discussion between Eppie and Silas Marner in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Eppie suggests that Silas will never be lonely again.

Explain how loneliness is explored elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• when loneliness is shown in the novel

• how loneliness affects people.

Explore how Shelley presents Victor Frankenstein in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Victor Frankenstein speaks of revenge.

Explain how revenge is significant elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who seeks revenge and why

• the effect that revenge has on others.

8 Re-read My Father Would Not Show Us. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how feelings about the loss of someone are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

9 Re-read Catrin. Choose one other poem from the Conflict anthology.

Compare how conflicts in relationships are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

A Poison Tree – William Blake The Destruction of Sennacherib – Lord Byron Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy Cousin Kate – Christina Rossetti Half-caste – John Agard Exposure – Wilfred Owen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Catrin – Gillian Clarke War Photographer – Carole Satyamurti Belfast Confetti – Ciaran Carson The Class Game – Mary Casey Poppies – Jane Weir No Problem – Benjamin Zephaniah What Were They Like? – Denise Levertov

10 Re-read To Autumn. Choose one other poem from the Time and Place anthology.

Compare how the passage of time is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

To Autumn – John Keats Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth London – William Blake I started Early – Took my Dog – Emily Dickinson Where the Picnic was – Thomas Hardy Adlestrop – Edward Thomas Home Thoughts from Abroad – Robert Browning First Flight – U. A. Fanthorpe Stewart Island – Fleur Adcock Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan – Moniza Alvi Hurricane Hits England – Grace Nichols Nothing’s Changed – Tatamkhulu Afrika Postcard from a Travel Snob – Sophie Hannah In Romney Marsh – John Davidson Absence – Elizabeth Jennings

11 Re-read I Remember, I Remember. Choose one other poem from the Belonging anthology.

Compare how childhood is explored in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

To My Sister – William Wordsworth Sunday Dip – John Clare Mild the Mist Upon the Hill – Emily Brontë Captain Cook (To My Brother) – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Clear and Gentle Stream – Robert Bridges I Remember, I Remember – Thomas Hood Island Man – Grace Nichols We Refugees – Benjamin Zephaniah Peckham Rye Lane – A. K. Blakemore Us – Zaffar Kunial In Wales, wanting to be Italian – Imtiaz Dharker Kumukanda – Kayo Chingonyi Jamaican British – Raymond Antrobus My Mother’s Kitchen – Choman Hardi The Émigrée – Carol Rumens

12 Compare the ways the writers present fireworks in Poem 1: After the Fireworks and Poem 2: Fireworks.

In your answer, you should compare:

• the ideas in the poems

• the poets’ use of language

• the poets’ use of form and structure.

Use evidence from the poems to support your comparison.