Key quotations — The Merchant of Venice — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The Merchant of Venice, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'In sooth, I know not why I am so sad', 'I hate him for he is a Christian', 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose', 'All that glisters is not gold', 'My daughter! O my ducats!', 'Hath not a Jew eyes?', 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd', 'Tarry a little; there is something else', 'I am content' and 'How far that little candle throws his beams!'.
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.
