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
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
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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. 5 10 15 20 25 30 5 Turn over P56250A 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)
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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!’ 11 Turn over P56254A 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)