Eduqas GCSE English Literature Component 1 October 2020 question paper

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

What does this extract show about the character of Lady Macbeth at this point in the

play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

L_ady M_acbeth Yet here’s a spot.

D_octor Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.

L_ady M_acbeth Out damned spot! Out I say! One: Two: why then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

D_octor Do you mark that?

L_ady M_acbeth The Thane of Fife, had a wife: where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all with this starting.

D_octor Go to, go to. You have known what you should not.

G_entlewoman She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known.

L_ady M_acbeth Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!

D_octor What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.

G_entlewoman I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.

D_octor Well, well, well.

G_entlewoman Pray God it be, sir.

D_octor This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds.

L_ady M_acbeth Wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale. I tell you yet again Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.

D_octor Even so?

L_ady M_acbeth To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done, cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.

Exit Lady Macbeth

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

Look at how Beatrice and Benedick speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part of the play? Refer closely to details from the extract to support

your answer.

B_eatrice Kill Claudio.

B_enedick Ha, not for the wide world.

B_eatrice You kill me to deny it, farewell. [She starts to leave.]

B_enedick Tarry sweet Beatrice.

B_eatrice I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay I pray you, let me go.

B_enedick Beatrice –

B_eatrice In faith I will go.

B_enedick We’ll be friends first.

B_eatrice You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.

B_enedick Is Claudio thine enemy?

B_eatrice Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour – O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

B_enedick Hear me, Beatrice –

B_eatrice Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!

B_enedick Nay but Beatrice –

B_eatrice Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.

B_enedick Beat–

B_eatrice Princes and counties! Surely a princely testimony, a goodly Count. Count Comfect, a sweet gallant surely. O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too. He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie, and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

B_enedick Tarry good Beatrice, by this hand I love thee.

B_eatrice Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.

B_enedick Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?

B_eatrice Yea, as sure as I have a thought, or a soul.

B_enedick Enough, I am engaged, I will challenge him.

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

about how Shakespeare presents one or two of these relationships in the play.

*5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence structures.

Compare the way the poet presents relationships in your chosen poem with the way

Philip Larkin presents relationships in Afternoons.

• the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they are organised • how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant • the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them