Guilt and responsibility — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Guilt and responsibility
Themes
What you need to know
How Priestley explores guilt, morality and who is responsible for Eva's death 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: 'I can't accept any responsibility', 'I'll never, never do it again to anybody', 'you killed her', 'I'd give thousands', 'Everything's all right now, Sheila', 'We are responsible for each other', 'guiltily and dumbfounded'.
Who accepts responsibility and who doesn't, and the chain of events that links them.
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.
