Key quotations — The Merchant of Venice — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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!'.
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.
