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GCSE English Literature · key term
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances and ideas that help explain a text’s meanings.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
The social conditions, historical events and cultural beliefs that help explain a literary work’s meanings and reception.
Revise: ContextContext helps explain why these dramatic choices might have mattered to their first audiences; it should not replace close attention to what happens on stage.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and the ways audiences respond to it.
Use context to explain a particular word, image, action or structural contrast. Connect the historical idea directly to your interpretation of the play.
Distinguish the play’s medieval Scottish setting from its Jacobean performance context.
Use context to develop an interpretation of a particular word, action or structural choice, rather than adding a separate history paragraph.
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The social, historical, cultural and literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings and a writer’s choices.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances surrounding a work’s creation or reception, used to explain and evaluate particular features of the text.
The social, cultural, religious or literary circumstances and ideas that help explain a text’s meanings.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances and ideas that help explain a text.
Knowledge of social structures, beliefs, literary conventions or other relevant circumstances that helps explain a text’s meanings.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances that help explain a work’s ideas and meanings.
The social conditions, historical circumstances and cultural ideas that help explain a literary work’s meanings and choices.
The social, historical, cultural and personal circumstances that can help explain a literary work’s ideas and methods.
The social and historical circumstances, cultural ideas and literary traditions that help explain a writer’s choices and a text’s meanings.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances surrounding a text’s creation or setting that help explain its meanings.
The social, historical, biographical and literary circumstances that help explain a writer’s choices and readers’ responses.
The relevant social, cultural, religious, historical or literary circumstances and ideas that help explain a text’s meanings.
The circumstances, social values, literary traditions and perspectives that help explain a text’s meanings.
The social structures, beliefs, values or other circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and meanings.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a work’s ideas, its writer’s choices and its audience’s responses.
The ideas, social conditions, literary conventions and audience perspectives that help explain a text’s meanings.
Historical, social, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and choices.
The historical circumstances, social attitudes, literary movements or perspectives that help explain a text’s meanings.
The circumstances, beliefs and wider ideas relevant to understanding a text, such as expectations about parenthood or marriage.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The circumstances, beliefs and literary traditions surrounding a work’s creation and reception, which can help explain its meanings.
Revise: ContextContext helps us understand why Shakespeare’s choices could be significant. It does not reduce the play to a message written simply to please James. Macbeth was also theatre: supernatural appearances, suspense, disturbing imagery and comedy entertained audiences while raising questions about ambition and power.
The social, historical, cultural and literary circumstances that help explain a text and responses to it.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a text’s creation and meanings.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a literary work’s choices and meanings.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a literary work and the ways audiences interpret it.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text and its reception.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The circumstances surrounding a text or an experience within it, including social relationships, cultural expectations, historical events and literary traditions.
Revise: ContextContext means the circumstances that help explain a text and the experiences within it. Here, that includes migration, racism, industrial change and the everyday pressures of childhood. Context is useful when it develops a reading: knowing that Meena’s parents grew up in India, for example, helps explain why their memories of home differ from those of their British-born daughter.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s situations, meanings and effects.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s situations, meanings and methods.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances that help explain a text, a character’s behaviour or an audience’s response.
The circumstances that help explain a text or a character’s behaviour, including social relationships, cultural expectations and literary traditions.
The social, cultural, historical or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s creation, setting or reception.
Component 1, Component 2
The historical, social or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and the choices its writer makes.
Revise: ContextContext helps us understand why particular words, actions or dramatic choices matter. Here, it includes social expectations, beliefs about fate and literary traditions of love and tragedy. It is most useful when it explains a moment in the play, rather than replacing attention to that moment.
The historical, social and literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings and a writer’s choices.
The historical, social or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and conventions.
The historical, social, religious and theatrical circumstances that help explain a literary work and the ways people interpret it.
Relevant circumstances surrounding a work, including its historical setting, social attitudes and literary traditions.
The historical, social, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and choices.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a text’s creation, setting and reception.
The situation surrounding words or actions in a text, or the social and historical circumstances that help explain its ideas.
The historical events, social attitudes, literary traditions and experiences of a writer that help explain a text’s meanings.
The historical, social, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings, its writer’s purposes or an audience’s response.
The historical, social, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text and its meanings.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and how readers respond to it.
The historical circumstances, social attitudes and literary practices that help explain a work’s ideas and choices.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances surrounding a text’s creation and reception, which can help explain its meanings.
The social, historical and cultural circumstances that help explain a literary work’s ideas and choices.
The social conditions, historical circumstances and cultural ideas that help readers understand a literary work.
The social, historical, cultural and personal circumstances that help explain a literary work’s ideas and meanings.
The circumstances and ideas surrounding a text that help explain its meanings, such as social attitudes, historical events or literary traditions.
The historical, social, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text and its concerns.
The literary, social, cultural, historical or personal circumstances that help explain a text’s creation or reception.
The personal, social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text and its reception.
The circumstances and literary traditions surrounding a text’s creation that help explain its meanings and the writer’s choices.
The circumstances and literary, historical, social or cultural influences relevant to the writing and interpretation of a text.
The circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings. In OCR modern-text part (a), relevant context includes social and cultural situations or experiences shown in the extracts and their introductions.
The social and historical circumstances, cultural attitudes or literary conventions that help explain a text’s meanings.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas and the ways it presents them.
The social and historical circumstances, cultural beliefs or literary conventions that help explain a text’s meanings.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings and the responses it invites.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings and the choices its writer makes.
Social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text's meanings and the writer's choices.
The social customs, historical circumstances and cultural ideas that help explain a text’s meanings and effects.
Social, historical or cultural circumstances and ideas that help explain a literary text’s characters, conflicts and meanings.
The social customs, historical circumstances and cultural ideas that help explain a literary work's meanings.
Relevant social, historical or cultural circumstances and attitudes that help explain a text’s meanings.
The historical, social and intellectual circumstances that help explain a literary work and how audiences may understand it.
The historical, social and cultural circumstances that help explain a literary text’s ideas and the choices its writer makes.
The relevant social, historical, religious or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings.
The historical circumstances, social beliefs and literary influences that help explain a text’s creation, setting and meanings.
The social, historical, cultural or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas, methods and reception.
The historical, social, biographical and literary circumstances that help explain a text’s creation, ideas and reception.
The historical, social, religious and literary circumstances that help explain a text’s ideas, methods and reception.
Relevant circumstances surrounding a text, such as its historical period, social relationships, religious beliefs and literary traditions.
Historical, social, scientific or literary circumstances that help explain a text’s meanings and the responses of its audiences.
