Family and marriage — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Family and marriage
Themes
What you need to know
How Shakespeare explores parents and children, arranged marriage and a daughter's duty 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: 'My child is yet a stranger in the world', 'It is an honour that I dream not of', 'Deny thy father and refuse thy name', 'Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!', 'I would the fool were married to her grave!', 'Death is my son-in-law'.
Context: arranged marriage, daughters as property, and the Nurse as a substitute mother.
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.
