EDEXCEL AS LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE (8ET0/02) QUESTION PAPER 2 AND MARK SCHEME SUMMER 2025

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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Friday 23 May 2025
Morning (Time: 1 hour 15 minutes) Paper
reference 8ET0/02
English Literature 🟐 🟐


Advanced Subsidiary
PAPER 2: Prose

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Prescribed texts (clean copies)



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•• Use black ink or ball‑point pen.
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•• Answer one question.
Answer the question in the space provided
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• The total mark for this paper is 44.
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•• Read your chosen question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answer if you have time at the end.




EDEXCEL AS LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE (8ET0/02) QUESTION
PAPER 2 AND MARK SCHEME SUMMER 2025

, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be pre‑1900.

Begin your answer on page 8.




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Childhood

Texts

Pre‑1900: What Maisie Knew, Henry James; Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Post‑1900: Atonement, Ian McEwan; The Color Purple, Alice Walker

EITHER

1 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present characters’
experience of home.
In your answer you must consider the following:

• the writers’ methods

• links between the texts




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• relevant contextual factors.

(Total for Question 1 = 44 marks)


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2 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present separation.

In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods

• links between the texts

• relevant contextual factors.

(Total for Question 2 = 44 marks) DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA




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, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be pre‑1900.

Begin your answer on page 8.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA




Colonisation and its Aftermath

Texts

Pre‑1900: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Post‑1900: Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie; The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon

EITHER

3 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present characters
who are disempowered.
In your answer you must consider the following:

• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts
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• relevant contextual factors.

(Total for Question 3 = 44 marks)


OR

4 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present hostility.

In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods

• links between the texts

• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 4 = 44 marks)
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, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be pre‑1900.

Begin your answer on page 8.




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Crime and Detection

Texts

Pre‑1900: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon; The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Post‑1900: The Cutting Season, Attica Locke; In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

EITHER

5 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present threat.

In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods

• links between the texts




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• relevant contextual factors.

(Total for Question 5 = 44 marks)


OR

6 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts present the impact
of social expectations.
In your answer you must consider the following:

• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts

• relevant contextual factors.

(Total for Question 6 = 44 marks) DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA




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