Youth and age — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Youth and age
Themes
What you need to know
How Shakespeare explores the haste of the young and the caution, or failure, of the old 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: 'Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast', 'Young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes', 'Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel', 'old folks, many feign as they were dead', 'My will to her consent is but a part'.
The haste of the young against the caution of the old, and the older generation's failure to protect their children.
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.
