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English literature 2019 Paper 1

To all my fellow year 13s, what was the 2019 english literature question for macbeth and a christmas carol if you remember each of those , i need it for help with my revision! much appreciated :smile:
All I remember from the macbeth (aqa) question was that the extract was a long speech from the captain....

Ive completely blanked my literature GCSE from my memory 😂
Original post by b3th4ny_xxx
All I remember from the macbeth (aqa) question was that the extract was a long speech from the captain....

Ive completely blanked my literature GCSE from my memory 😂

oh... its alright ! :smile:
Original post by shalley112323
To all my fellow year 13s, what was the 2019 english literature question for macbeth and a christmas carol if you remember each of those , i need it for help with my revision! much appreciated


yh so the macbeth

Macbeth from Act 2 Scene 3, lines 1 to 32
In this extract, the Porter is at the castle gates.
PORTER
Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hellgate, he should have old turning the key. (Knocking
again) Knock, knock, knock. Who’s there, i’ the name
of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on
the expectation of plenty. Come in, time-server. Have
napkins enough about you: here you’ll sweat for it.
(Knocking again) Knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ the other
devil’s name? ’Faith, here’s an equivocator that could
swear in both the scales against either scale who
committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not
equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator!
(Knocking again) Knock, knock, knock. Who’s there?
’Faith, here’s an English tailor, come hither for stealing
out of a French hose. Come in, tailor! Here you may
roast your goose. (Knocking again) Knock, knock.
Never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too
cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further. I had thought
to have let in some of all professions that go the
primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. (Knocking
again) Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.
He opens the gate.
Enter Macduff and Lennox.
MACDUFF
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,
That you do lie so late?
PORTER
’Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second **** and
drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it
provokes and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it
takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may
be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him
and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it
persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand
to, and not stand to.
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1 (a) Explore how Shakespeare presents the character of the Porter in this extract.
Refer closely to the extract in your answer.
(20)
(b) In this extract, the Porter is imagining he is letting in evil visitors at the gates of
Hell.
Explain the importance of evil elsewhere in the play.
In your answer, you must consider:
how evil is shown
the reasons for evil within the play.
You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.
(20)


and


Xmas Carol



A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens

From Stave 4, ‘The Last of the Spirits’ The bell has struck twelve and the last Spirit
visits Scrooge.
The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent
down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to
scatter gloom and mystery.
It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form,
and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been
difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it
was surrounded.
He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious
presence filled him with a solemn dread. He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke
nor moved.
‘I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?’ said Scrooge.
The Spirit answered not, but pointed downward with its hand.
‘You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will
happen in the time before us,’ Scrooge pursued. ‘Is that so, Spirit?’
The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its fold, as if the Spirit
had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received.
Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so
much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when
he prepared to follow it. The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and
giving him time to recover.
But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to
know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him,
while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral
hand and one great heap of black.
‘Ghost of the Future!’ he exclaimed, ‘I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen. But as I
know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what
I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not
speak to me?’
It gave him no reply. The hand was pointed straight before them.
‘Lead on!’ said Scrooge. ‘Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I
know. Lead on, Spirit!’
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Question 4 - A Christmas Carol
4 (a) Explore how Dickens presents the last Spirit in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
(20)
(b) In this extract, Scrooge is afraid.
Explain how fear is portrayed elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
who shows fear
when fear is shown.
(20)
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