Key quotations — The Merchant of Venice — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The Merchant of Venice, 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 'In sooth, I know not why I am so sad', 'I hate him for he is a Christian', 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose', 'All that glisters is not gold', 'My daughter! O my ducats!', 'Hath not a Jew eyes?', 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd', 'Tarry a little; there is something else', 'I am content' and 'How far that little candle throws his beams!'.
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.
