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Do not use pencil.  \n• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/1 .  \n• Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.  \n• You must not use a dictionary.  \nInformation  \n• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.  \n• The maximum mark for this paper is 64.  \n• AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.  \n• There are 30 marks for Section B.  \nThere are no questions printed on this page  \nSECTION A Shakespeare  \nMacbeth Romeo and Juliet The Tempest  \nThe Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing Julius Caesar  \nSECTION B  \nThe 19th-century novel  \nRobert Louis Stevenson  \nCharles Dickens  \nCharles Dickens Charlotte Brontë Mary Shelley Jane Austen Arthur Conan Doyle  \nThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll  \nand Mr. Hyde A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Jane Eyre Frankenstein Pride and Prejudice The Sign of Four  \nQuestion  \n1  \n2 3  \n4  \n5 6  \nQuestion  \n7  \n8 9  \n10  \n11  \n12  \n13  \nPage  \n4–5  \n6 7  \n8 9  \n10  \nPage  \n12–13  \n14–15  \n16–17 18  \n19  \n20 22–23  \nTurn over for Section A  \nSection A: Shakespeare  \nAnswer one question from this section on your chosen text.  \nEither  \n0  1  Macbeth  \nRead the following extract from Act 1 Scene 7 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows.  \nAt this point in the play, Macbeth has decided that he is no longer prepared to carry out the plan to murder King Duncan.  \nLADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk  \nWherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time,  \n5 Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem,  \n10 Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i’th’adage?  \nMACBETH Prithee, peace.  \nI dare do all that may become a man;  \nWho dares do more is none.  \n15 LADY MACBETH What beast was’t then That made you break this enterprise to me?  \nWhen you durst do it, then you were a man.  \nAnd to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time, nor place  \n20 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.  \nThey have made themselves and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:  \nI would, while it was smiling in my face,  \n25 Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn  \nAs you have done to this.  \nMACBETH If we should fail?  \nLADY MACBETH We fail?  \n30 But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.  \n0  1  Starting with this conversation, explore how far Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth asa strong female character.  \nWrite about:  \n• how far Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a strong female character in this conversation  \n• how far Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a strong female character in the play as a whole.  \n[30 marks] AO4 [4 marks]  \nTurn over for the next question  \nor  \n 0  2  Romeo and Juliet  \nRead the following extract from Act 2 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.  \nAt this point in the play, Juliet is waiting for the Nurse to return with news from Romeo.  \nJULIET The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse;  \nIn half an hour she promised to return.  \nPerchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.  \nO, she is lame! 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