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A-level English Literature A

AQA

Paper 1: Love through the ages

180 minutes · 75 marks · 40 per cent

Section A: Shakespeare (25 marks)

Choose one play

Section B: Unseen poetry (25 marks)

Compulsory

Section C: Comparing texts (25 marks)

One poetry plus one prose, one pre-1900

Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts

150 minutes · 75 marks · 40 per cent

Option 2A: WW1 and its aftermath, Section A (25 marks)

At least one core text

Option 2A, Section B: Contextual linking (50 marks)

Two texts, no reuse

Option 2B: Modern times, Section A (25 marks)

At least one core text

Option 2B, Section B: Contextual linking (50 marks)

Two texts, no reuse

NEA: Independent critical study

50 marks · 20 per cent

Texts across time (50 marks)

Two texts, one pre-1900, 2,500 words

Othello

1604 · Aspects of tragedy

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Othello, Iago, Desdemona

Context we build in

Race and the outsider in Early Modern England
Venetian military service and the Ottoman threat

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Where is the peripeteia of the play usually located?
What is the symbolic significance of the handkerchief?
What does the kneeling vow in Act 3 Scene 3 signify?
Why does Othello's language collapse into prose in Act 4?

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy3.3

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