Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Paper 1
Revise: Friendship and loyaltyPortia and Jessica offer contrasting examples of filial loyalty. In Act 1 Scene 2, Portia complains that her living will is restricted by her dead father’s will, but she continues to follow the casket test. In Act 3 Scene 2, she refuses to teach Bassanio the correct choice because doing so would make her ‘forsworn’: guilty of breaking an oath.