Plot overview — The Merchant of Venice — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Plot overview
Introduction
What you need to know
The whole play in brief, act by act, and how the Venice plot of the bond and the Belmont plot of the caskets and rings come together.
Where each act's key moment falls, how the Venice plot and the Belmont plot mirror each other, and how the comic ending leaves Shylock out.
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.
