Friar Laurence — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Friar Laurence
Characters
What you need to know
How Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence, and how the character develops across the text: counsellor, go-between and planner whose schemes go wrong.
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: 'Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!', 'Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast', 'To turn your households' rancour to pure love', 'These violent delights have violent ends', 'Take thou this vial', 'A greater power than we can contradict', 'I will be brief'.
His soliloquy on herbs that heal and poison, his rhyming couplets, and how far he is to blame.
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.
