Age and generations — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Age and generations
Themes
What you need to know
How Priestley explores the difference between the older and younger generations across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'the famous younger generation who know it all', 'We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.', 'It frightens me the way you talk', 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'In the morning they'll be as amused as we are'.
Why Priestley places his hope in the young, and where Gerald stands.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
