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.
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.
