Lord and Lady Capulet — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Lord and Lady Capulet
Characters
What you need to know
How Shakespeare presents Lord and Lady Capulet, and how the character develops across the text: parents, patriarchy and the arranged marriage to Paris.
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: 'My child is yet a stranger in the world', 'My will to her consent is but a part', 'He shall be endured', 'Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!', 'die in the streets', 'I would the fool were married to her grave!', 'Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word', 'O brother Montague, give me thy hand'.
Context: a father's authority over his daughter and the arranged marriage, and how Capulet changes between Act 1 and Act 3.
OCR's question on this play is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the play elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the play, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts as the play shows it, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
