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CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (CAIE)9695/31
May/June 2024 Paper 31 (Shakespeare and Drama) • AS & A Level Literature in English (9695)
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1(a)
Section A: Shakespeare • William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Discursive: Death and Dying)
Worth 25 Marks • Higher Level
This question references Section A: William Shakespeare – Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) in the reading insert.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Either (a)
Discuss Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation of death and dying and their significance in the play.
•The total mark for this question is 25 marks.
•Refer closely to dramatic structure, the Ghost’s purgatorial revels, Hamlet’s philosophical soliloquies (‘To be or not to be’), Ophelia’s tragic drowning, the Gravedigger scene (Yorick’s skull), and the climactic catastrophic bloodbath of Act 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Section A: Shakespeare (Answer one question from this section • 25 marks)
Question 1 Either (a): Discuss Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation of death and dying and their significance in the play.
Formula Guide:
Structure your response chronologically and conceptually: The Ghost’s unhallowed death and purgatorial vengeance -> Hamlet’s existential interrogation of suicide in soliloquy -> Ophelia’s tragic lyrical drowning -> The physical leveling of Yorick’s skull in the graveyard -> The philosophical acceptance of ‘readiness is all’ -> The retributive bloodbath of Act 5.
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