How Shakespeare presents Jessica, and how the character develops across the text: Shylock's daughter, who leaves her father's house with his money to marry Lorenzo and become a Christian.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'Alack, what heinous sin is it in me / To be ashamed to be my father's child!', 'If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, / Become a Christian and thy loving wife', 'I have a father, you a daughter, lost', 'I am much ashamed of my exchange', 'I will make fast the doors, and gild myself / With some more ducats', 'That he would rather have Antonio's flesh / Than twenty times the value of the sum', 'One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey', 'I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a Christian', 'In such a night / Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well, / Stealing her soul with many vows of faith', 'I am never merry when I hear sweet music'.
Her conversion and a daughter's duty to her father, and how her last scenes at Belmont can be played as happy or uneasy.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
