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GCSE English Literature · key term
A clergyman who assists a parish priest. In The War of the Worlds, the curate becomes the narrator’s companion during the invasion.
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Paper 1
A clergyman serving a parish; Feste impersonates one when he performs as Sir Topas.
Revise: Act 4Inside Olivia's house, Maria gives Feste a gown and beard so that he can impersonate Sir Topas, a curate. This is an actor playing Feste playing another character: disguise becomes a theatrical performance within the play.
Paper 1
Question on religion or civilisation: connect the curate’s admission that he ignored poverty to his behaviour in captivity. Keep contextual discussion relevant to the question.
Extract-based question: analyse the printed passage closely and develop links to the curate elsewhere in the novel. Staying entirely within the extract caps the response at Level 3; only briefly referring elsewhere caps it at Level 4.
Discursive question: develop analysis of at least two distinct moments, such as the curate’s first appearance and his final outburst. One moment caps the response at Level 3; a merely brief second moment caps it at Level 4.
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A member of the clergy who assists a parish priest.
Near Walton he encounters the curate, a refugee from Weybridge whose religious understanding has been shaken by the destruction of his community and church.
A clergyman who assists with the religious work of a parish.
A Christian clergyman who assists in the care of a parish. In The War of the Worlds, the unnamed curate struggles to reconcile the invasion with his religious beliefs.
Component 2
A member of the clergy who assists a parish priest; in the novel, the curate becomes the narrator’s companion during the invasion.
Revise: Book Two, Chapters 1 to 5: trapped with the curateThe narrator and the curate—a clergyman assisting a parish priest—have been sheltering in an empty house at Halliford, surrounded by the Martians’ poisonous Black Smoke. Their forced inactivity contrasts with the crowds and movement at the end of Book One. The invasion now becomes an intimate struggle between two frightened people.
A member of the clergy who cares for a parish; in common English usage, an assistant to the parish priest.
A parish clergyman responsible for the spiritual care of a community; the term commonly refers to an assistant to a parish priest.
