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GCSE English Literature · key term
A person’s sense of who they are, shaped by their origins, experiences, relationships, choices and how others treat them.
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Paper 2
A person’s sense of who they are, shaped by factors such as culture, language, history and experience.
Revise: Checking Out Me HistoryThe parallel phrases “me own history” and “me own identity” establish the poem’s central connection: knowledge of the past helps people understand who they are. The later images of light answer this opening blindness.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Explain how controlling history can control identity: go beyond the speaker’s anger about school lessons.
Treat Caribbean English as a deliberate expression of cultural identity.
Part (a): Compare both printed extracts throughout. Explain how their social relationships, attitudes and treatment of outsiders shape identity, using the extracts and their introductions.
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A person’s sense of who they are, including their relationships, history and qualities, as well as how others recognise them.
Gender concerns the roles and expectations associated with men and women; identity concerns who someone is, including their history, relationships and personal qualities. Viola remains the same intelligent, loyal person when she dresses as Cesario, yet the disguise changes her opportunities and other characters’ responses to her.
The qualities, experiences and affiliations through which a person understands who they are.
Paper 1
A person’s sense of who they are, shaped by qualities, relationships, experiences and cultural background.
Revise: Identity and belongingIn Anita and Me, identity concerns who Meena believes she is; belonging concerns where, and with whom, she feels accepted. These are connected, but they are not identical. Meena knows Tollington intimately, yet that familiarity does not guarantee acceptance.
A person’s understanding of who they are, shaped by experiences, relationships, culture and the ways others treat them.
Component 1
The qualities through which someone understands themselves and is recognised by others, including their name, relationships, memories and social role.
Revise: Gender and identityThe comedy asks how reliably clothes, voices and faces reveal identity.
