Key quotations — The Tempest — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The Tempest, 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 'What cares these roarers for the name of king?', 'Me, poor man, my library / Was dukedom large enough', 'Thou liest, malignant thing!', 'This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother', 'You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse', 'What's past is prologue', 'Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises', 'Our revels now are ended', 'The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance', 'O brave new world', 'this thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine' and 'Let your indulgence set me free'.
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.
