2024 AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7717/2B Paper 2B Texts and genres: Elements of political and social protest writing Mark scheme June 2023 Version: 1.0 Final THT & 1984 - Genre AO3 (ALevel English Literature Paper 2 - Comparative Texts)

2024 AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B 7717/2B Paper 2B Texts and genres: Elements of political and social protest writing Mark scheme June 2023 Version: 1.0 Final THT & 1984 - Genre AO3 (ALevel English Literature Paper 2 - Comparative Texts) Collins: The Hunger Games (rebellion) - ANS-Katniss rebels against the Capitols PD James: The Children of Men (rebellion) - ANS-Group of resistors Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (rebellion) - ANS-Montag illegally reads books Huxley: Brave New World (rebellion) - ANS-Bernard Marx challenges the principles of society Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (rebellion) - ANS-Alex rebels through rape Huxley: Brave New World (control + fear) - ANS-control through reproduction, test tube babies Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (control + fear) - ANS-control through restriction of language, burning books Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (control + fear) - ANSbehavioural therapy to stop violence King: The Long Walk (hierarchy) - ANS-figurehead crowd, synthetic presence HG Wells: The Time Machine (hierarchy) - ANS-class segregation of Eloi and Morlocks Blackman: Noughts and Crosses (hierarchy) - ANS-class segregation of white noughts and black crosses Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (language) - ANS-burn books, destruction of media Dalcher: Vox (language) - ANS-girls are not taught to read or write Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (language) - ANS-written in Nadsat - new language McCarthy: The Road (environment) - ANS-nuclear disaster Ballard: The Drowned World (environment) - ANS-postapocalyptic, solar radiation Zamyatin: We (control + fear) - ANS-control through lack of identity McCarthy: The Road (control + fear) - ANS-fear through isolation Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor (environment) - ANS-nuclear holocaust, war, societal collapse Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race (environment) - ANSoverpopulation O'Neill: Only Ever Yours (gender) - ANS-girls genetically engineered for male pleasure