GCSE – NEW

C720U10-1 S17-C720U10-1

ENGLISH LITERATURE
COMPONENT 1
Shakespeare and Poetry

MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017 – MORNING

2 hours
SECTION A
Pages
Romeo and Juliet 2-3
Macbeth 4-5
Othello 6-7

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Much Ado About Nothing 8-9
Henry V 10-11

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The Merchant of Venice 12-13

SECTION B
Poetry 14-15

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
A WJEC pink 16-page answer booklet.
The use of a dictionary is not permitted in this examination.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Do not use pencil or gel pen. Do not use correction fluid.
For Section A, answer both questions on the one text you have studied. For Section B, answer both
questions.
Write your answers in the separate answer booklet provided.
Use both sides of the paper. Write only within the white areas of the booklet.
Write the question number in the two boxes in the left hand margin at the start of each answer,
e.g. 2 1 .
Leave at least two line spaces between each answer.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

Each section carries 40 marks.
You are advised to spend your time as follows Section A - about one hour
Section B - about one hour
The number of marks is given in brackets at the end of each question or part-question.
5 marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation and the use of vocabulary and sentence
structures in Section A, where indicated.
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Macbeth

Answer both 2 1 and 2 2 .

You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on 2 1 , and about 40 minutes on 2 2  .

2 1 Read the extract on the opposite page. Then answer the following question.

Look at how the characters 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. [15]

* 2 2 Write about the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and how it is presented
at different points in the play. [25]

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

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Ross Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes

Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner,
Were on the quarry of these murdered deer
To add the death of you.

Malcolm Merciful heaven!

What! man; ne’er pull your hat upon your brows,
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

Macduff My children too?

Ross Wife, children, servants, all

That could be found.

Macduff And I must be from thence!

My wife killed too!

Ross I have said.

Malcolm Be comforted.

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Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge,
To cure this deadly grief.

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Macduff He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?

Malcolm Dispute it like a man.

Macduff I shall do so;

But I must also feel it as a man:
I cannot but remember such things were
That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,
And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,
They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am,
Not for their own demerits, but for mine,
Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now.

Malcolm Be this the whetstone of your sword, let grief

Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.

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