AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B Paper 1A Literary genres: Aspects of tragedy Wednesday 24 May 2023

AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B Paper 1A Literary genres: Aspects of tragedy Wednesday 24 May 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7717/1A. • Answer one question from Section A, one question from Section B and one question from Section C. • You may answer on the same Shakespeare play in Sections A and B. • For Section C, you must write about one drama text and one further text, one of which must be written pre-1900. • Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 75. • You will be marked on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. • In your response you need to: – analyse carefully the writers’ methods – explore the contexts of the texts you are writing about – explore connections across the texts you have studied – explore different interpretations of your texts. Section A Answer one question in this section. Either 0 1 Othello – William Shakespeare Read the extract below and then answer the question. Explore the significance of this extract in relation to the tragedy of the play as a whole. Remember to include in your answer relevant analysis of Shakespeare’s dramatic methods. [25 marks] RODERIGO I would not follow him then. IAGO O, sir, content you: I follow him to serve my turn upon him. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass, For naught but provender, and when he’s old – cashiered! Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves, And, throwing but shows of service on their lords, Do well thrive by them; and when they have lined their coats, Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul, And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir, It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago: In following him, I follow but myself. Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end: For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after, But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at – I am not what I am. RODERIGO What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe If he can carry’t thus! IAGO Call up her father, Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy, Yet throw such chances of vexation on’t, As it may lose some colour. RODERIGO Here is her father’s house; I’ll call aloud. IAGO Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell, As when, by night and negligence, the fire Is spied in populous cities. RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signor Brabantio, ho! IAGO Awake! What, ho, Brabantio! Thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves! Enter Brabantio above, at a window (Act 1, Scene 1) Turn over for the next question