AQA A LEVEL English Literature A: Wuthering Heights & Post 1900s Poetry A*/A Model Answers
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Paper 1: Love through the ages
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AQA
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THEMES: Jealousy, Religion, Gender, Sex, Loyalty, Attained Love, desire, romantic commitment,
end of text/structure, separation, pain, time, convention of society, enduring love, loss of love, family,
marriage, forbidden love, grief, lust, supernatural
Question Breakdown
● AO1: organisation of ideas, argument quality, relevance, appropriate concepts, terminology
● AO2: language, structure; Structure: shifts in narrative perspective/setting/past & present +
(poem) tone/mood; juxtaposition in both texts; cyclical structure in both
● AO3: society, gender, setting; Dual context: 18th century context of setting; 19th century
context of production – informed by 19th century/Victorian values
● AO4: Extent to which text’s representation is typical of its form, genre, historical period
Question Bank
NOTE: You have to write about at least 2 poems in your answer as well as the prose text you studied.
June 2017
Compare how the authors of 2 texts you have studied present aspects of desire
Compare how the authors of 2 texts you have studied present ideas about romantic commitment
June 2018
Compare how ideas about enduring love are presented in two texts you have studied.
Compare how the loss of love is presented in two texts you have studied.
June 2019
Compare how the authors of 2 texts present ideas about how time affects love relationships
‘In literature, lovers often come into conflict with the conventions of society.’ In light of this
comment, compare how lovers and the societies they live in are presented in the 2 texts you have
studied.
June 2020
‘In the literature of love, separation intensifies feelings of love.’ In the light of this view compare
how the authors of the 2 texts you have studied present the effects of separation.
‘Pain is part of love.’ In the light of this view compare how the authors of 2 texts you have studied
present the pains of love.
June 2021
Compare how the authors of 2 texts you have studied use the endings of their texts to explore
ideas about love
‘In literature, women and men experience love very differently.’ Compare how the authors of 2
texts you have studied present love in the light of this view.
June 2022
Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present love as a source of potential
happiness and fulfilment.
“In literature, true love is rarely achieved and never lasts.” Compare how the authors of two texts
you have studied present ideas about true love in the light of this view.
June 2023
Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present ideas about the compatibility of
lovers.
Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present conflict between lovers.
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