Act 5 — Romeo and Juliet — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 5
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The news in Mantua, the apothecary, the undelivered letter, the deaths in the tomb, the Friar's account and the families' reconciliation.
Key quotations: 'Then I defy you, stars!', 'I do remember an apothecary', 'There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls', 'Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath', 'Eyes, look your last!', 'Thus with a kiss I die', 'O happy dagger!', 'See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate', 'A glooming peace this morning with it brings', 'For never was a story of more woe'.
The undelivered letter and the timing of the tomb scene, and the ending as reconciliation bought with the children's deaths.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
