exemplars should be read in conjunction with the past paper/mark scheme and Principal Examiner’s Report for unit F663 from the June 2010 exam series‚ also available on the OCR website. This content has been selected by senior OCR examiners‚ to illustrate how the June 2010 assessment questions were answered and provide some commentary on what factors contributed to an overall grading. The exemplar candidate answers are intended to demonstrate a range of responses‚ supported by examiner commentary and conclusions
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In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ two lovers with feuding families do everything they can to try to be together‚ but both end up dying to stay together. These two lovers‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ have an eternal love for each other‚ which they prove in ending their lives to be together. Romeo is a passionate lover and it causes him to make very quick decisions. Romeo is overcome with love and it makes him impulsive and rash. Romeo decides to go Capulet’s party in an impulsive decision
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Has anyone ever had a bad day? The book Romeo and Juliet is a negative setting the setting is Verona Italy and the Capulet and Montagues hate each other. Romeo and Juliet is by William Shakespeare.Romeo likes Juliet and Juliet likes Romeo if you can guess it does not go so well.Touching Spirit bear is a negative setting.It takes place in Minneapolis and in Alaska it is by Mikaelsen. Cole matthews beats up this one kid named Peter and Cole gets in a lot of trouble and is shipped off to the Island
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ is about the love hate relationship of two families‚ the Capulet’s and the Montague’s‚ it is set in Verona‚ Italy. Act 3 scene 1 is a very important part of the whole Romeo and Juliet play. There are various mixed emotions the audience will endure throughout the scene and horrific blows are struck within this particular scene. The story is about the love of two young people form two families which are at ‘war’ with each other. The play is a tragedy in the sense that there is death
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Mastered Self N E A R T H E E N D of Shakespeare’s career stands a simple play not of self-loss but of self-gain. Shakespeare m a y well have intended it to have been his final one; it is difficult to think of Henry VIII as anything but an afterthought. A comedy or a tragicomedy‚ of course‚ was expected to present an action that moved toward self-gain; and the romances Shakespeare wrote dur ing his last phase‚ Pericles‚ Cymbeline‚ The Winter’s Tale‚ and The Tempest‚ all conclude happily with
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tragedy and immediate action along with vengeance and personal feeling occur throughout the events of The Tragedy of Hamlet. Shakespeare is able to portray this fact ever more solidly when Hamlet is faced with the death of his father. This hatches a revenge plot that Hamlet in his moral state is unable to deal with in an acceptable manner. Thus it is represented by Shakespeare with Hamlet’s hesitation to kill his uncle -the one who killed his father- but is also represented in the behavior
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was written in the Elizabethan era towards the end of the sixteenth century. The play presents a poignant tragedy the magnitude of which transcends the passage of time and culture. Among the themes of universal relevance that contribute to the tragedy are fate and the personality flaws of key characters. At the conclusion of the play‚ these themes combine to evoke profound sorrow both within the audience and among the play’s surviving characters. Fate‚ the development
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Looking back at history‚ documents show the tension between Puritans and Shakespeare. The play Twelfth Night is perfect evidence that shows how Shakespeare disagreed with the Puritans beliefs .Shakespeare decides to use the character Malvolio to represent the puritans at that time period. Shakespeare uses the character of Malvolio to ridicule the puritans and portrays the puritans as ambitious‚ selfish and bitter. The Puritans gained their power after they renounced the Anglican Church‚ this was
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Critical commentary on Act 3‚ Scene 3‚ lines 262-293 This passage is primarily a monologue of Othello’s realisation that he cannot forgive Desdemona for being unfaithful‚ however much it hurts him. The destruction of Othello’s mind‚ due to Iago’s manipulation‚ is clearly evident in this passage as well because we see the unreasonable motives‚ driven by persuasion‚ behind everything he says and how he reacts to everything Desdemona says. Othello’s monologue begins with a repeat of the ironic
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How does Shakespeare gain audience sympathy for Macbeth? In late 1905‚ Shakespeare’s Macbeth was performed for the first time in Hampton Court. At the time‚ King James I was in power‚ and it is widely believed that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in order to flatter him‚ as the previous year The Gunpowder Plot had shown an attempt on his life. In the play‚ King Duncan gets murdered‚ which would have been quite disturbing for King James I to watch. By the end of the play however‚ King James I would have
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