2023 OCR A English lit

What do u guys predict will be the questions for OCR English lit Hamlet and Rossetti/Ibsen question? Also what themes should I revise for Hamlet 1B?

Here are the themes that I have revised for the AO5 question on Hamlet:
1) Duty/Honour 2) Revenge 3) Madness 4) Mortality 5) Gender 6) Incest 7) Indecision/Inaction 8) Uncertainty/Ambiguity 9) Performance 10) Spying 11) Corruption 12) Political Power
I would have done family as well but that was last year's 2b question (and apparently also this year's AS question), and last year for AS, one of the questions was on love, so I've skipped on those two themes.

In terms of the extract, I was looking through every past and sample paper from 2017 to 2022 and Claudius has not appeared once in any of the extract-based questions, which I find a little suspicious. Maybe something like 3.3 or 4.5 or 4.7 could come up then, but I would still revise every scene just in case.

Also I do Webster and Chaucer instead of Ibsen and Rossetti but obviously the questions are still the same for every text combination. I made this table of question types that have appeared in the past:

What's dark purple?

What was the Hamlet B question for last year, i don't think deception has come up yet

Calm cheers, deception is still all to play for then. may the best man win


(Original post by alan_thebalan)
here are all the questions that have come up - last year's at the top

That part b was disgusting wtf

i know wth. what did you write about? for anyone who doesn’t know what the question was, for hamlet it was ’ideas and images of the theatre are central to Hamlet’

That part b was disgusting wtf

Here are the themes that I have revised for the AO5 question on Hamlet:
1) Duty/Honour 2) Revenge 3) Madness 4) Mortality 5) Gender 6) Incest 7) Indecision/Inaction 8) Uncertainty/Ambiguity 9) Performance 10) Spying 11) Corruption 12) Political Power
I would have done family as well but that was last year's 2b question (and apparently also this year's AS question), and last year for AS, one of the questions was on love, so I've skipped on those two themes.

In terms of the extract, I was looking through every past and sample paper from 2017 to 2022 and Claudius has not appeared once in any of the extract-based questions, which I find a little suspicious. Maybe something like 3.3 or 4.5 or 4.7 could come up then, but I would still revise every scene just in case.

Also I do Webster and Chaucer instead of Ibsen and Rossetti but obviously the questions are still the same for every text combination. I made this table of question types that have appeared in the past:

Hey Do u have this for paper 2 question 2? Also what do u think the unseen American passage will be on in paper 2?

Okay I defo messed up on the part B. I talked about how theatres were round with audience sat at all sides so they could see every aspect and linked that to surveillance in the play. Then I talked about how male actors used to play women and linked it to how Shakespeare feminised Hamlet.💀

i know wth. what did you write about? for anyone who doesn’t know what the question was, for hamlet it was ’ideas and images of the theatre are central to Hamlet’