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GCSE English Literature · key term
An official responsible for maintaining order. In ‘Holy Thursday’, the beadles lead and supervise the children.
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Paper 2
Revise: Holy ThursdayThe speaker introduces those officials through ‘Grey-headed beadles walked before’ in line 3. A beadle is an official who maintains order. Their position at the front gives them practical authority: they determine where the children go.
Part (a): connect the beadles’ white wands with authority and possible punishment, rather than automatically treating whiteness as innocence.
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