1. Edexcel English Language Paper 1: 19th Century Fiction
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2. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Moll has just discovered that her Mother had a baby in prison and realised it was her. She has actually married her brother.
1. I was now the most unhappy of all women in the world. Oh! had the story never been told me, all had been well; it had been no crime to have lain with my husband, since as to his being my relation I had known nothing of it.
5. I had now such a load on my mind that it kept me perpetually waking; to reveal it, which would have been some ease to me, I could not find would be to any purpose, and yet to conceal it would be next to impossible; nay, I did not doubt but I should talk of it in my sleep, and tell my husband of it whether I would or no. If I discovered it, the least 10. thing I could expect was to lose my husband, for he was too nice and too honest a man to have continued my husband after he had known I had been his sister; so that I was perplexed to the last degree.
I leave it to any man to judge what difficulties presented to my view. I was away from my native country, at a distance prodigious, 15. and the return to me unpassable. I lived very well, but in a circumstance insufferable in itself. If I had discovered myself to my mother, it might be difficult to convince her of the particulars, and I had no way to prove them. On the other hand, if she had questioned or doubted me, I had been undone, for the bare suggestion would have
20. immediately separated me from my husband, without gaining my mother or him, who would have been neither a husband nor a brother; so that between the surprise on one hand, and the uncertainty on the other, I had been sure to be undone.

3. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase which shows that Moll wasn’t aware of the crime she was committing. 1 mark
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2. From lines 10-15, give two reasons why Moll will lose her husband. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 1–8, how does the writer use language and structure to show that Moll is worried about what she has discovered?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to create sympathy for Moll.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Monster is looking for help and support.
1.“I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.'
5."'Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.'
"'They are kind—they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but,
10. unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.'
"'That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you
15. undeceive them?'
"'I am about to undertake that task; and it is on that account that I feel so many overwhelming terrors. I tenderly love these friends; I have, unknown to them, been for many months in the habits of daily kindness towards them; but they believe that I wish to injure them, and it is that prejudice which I wish to 20.overcome.'
"'Where do these friends reside?'
"'Near this spot.'
"The old man paused and then continued, 'If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them. I am 25.blind and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere. I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.'
"'Excellent man! I thank you and accept your generous offer. You raise me from the dust by this kindness; and I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be driven from 30. the society and sympathy of your fellow creatures.'
"'Heaven forbid! Even if you were really criminal, for that can only drive you to desperation, and not instigate you to virtue. I also am unfortunate; I and my family have been condemned, although innocent; judge, therefore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.'
35. "'How can I thank you, my best and only benefactor? From your lips first have I heard the voice of kindness directed towards me; I shall be forever grateful; and your present humanity assures me of success with those friends whom I am on the point of meeting.'

5. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase that describes what the monster is afraid of. 1 mark
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2. From lines 9-14, give two reasons why the monster thinks he should be accepted.
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 16–20, how does the writer use language and structure to show the monster’s feeling towards his friends?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to demonstrate the monster’s confusion about love .
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane and Mr Rochester have a passionate relationship.
1. His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield to it for a moment whatever followed; he crossed the floor and seized my arm, and grasped my waist. He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a 5. furnace – mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety. The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye. My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face, I gave an involuntary sigh: his
gripe was painful, and my overtasked strength almost exhausted.
10. ‘Never,’ said he, as he ground his teeth, ‘never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand! (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) ‘I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying
15. me, with more than courage – with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get it – the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling place. And it is you, spirit – with will 20.and energy, and virtue and purity – that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself, you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will you will elude the grasp like an essence – you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance…’

7. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase which tells us that Mr Rochester was angry. 1 mark
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2. From lines 5-10, give two ways in which the writer shows the effect of Mr Rochester’s anger on Jane. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 10-15, how does the writer use language and structure to show Mr Rochester as powerful?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to create a passionate exchange between the characters.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

8. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The inhabitants of London realize the danger posed by the Martians and start to flee the city.
1.“London in danger of suffocation! The Kingston and Richmond defences forced! Fearful massacres in the Thames Valley!”
And all about him – in the rooms below, in the houses on each side and across the road, and behind in the Park Terraces and in the hundred other streets of that part 5.of Marylebone, and the Westbourne Park district and St. Pancras, and westward and northward in Kilburn and St. John’s Wood and Hampstead, and eastward in Shore-ditch and Highbury and Haggerston and Hoxton, and, indeed, through all the vastness of London from Ealing to East Ham – people were rubbing their eyes, and opening windows to stare out and ask aimless questions, dressing hastily as 10.the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic. London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning, to a vivid sense of danger.
Unable from his window to learn what was happening, my brother went down 15.and out into the street, just as the sky between the parapets of the houses grew pink with the early dawn. The flying people on foot and in vehicles grew more numerous every moment. “Black Smoke!” he heard people crying, and again “Black Smoke!” The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable. As my brother hesitated on the door-step, he saw another news vender approaching, 20.and got a paper forthwith. The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran – a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
And from his paper my brother read that catastrophic despatch of the Commander-in-Chief:
“The Martians are able to discharge enormous clouds of a black and poisonous 25.vapour by means of rockets. They have smothered our batteries, destroyed Richmond, Kingston, and Wimbledon, and are advancing slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way.”

9. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase which shows that the threat was everywhere. 1 mark
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2. From lines 6-12, give two actions of the people. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 16-21, how does the writer use language and structure to show the panic of the people.
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to create fear.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

10. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
This passage describes the conditions in a school called Dotheboys Hall
1.It was such a crowded scene, and there were so many objects to attract attention, that, at first, Nicholas stared about him, really without seeing anything at all. By degrees, however, the place resolved itself into a bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of 5.glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copy-books and paper. There were a couple of long old rickety desks, cut and notched, and inked, and damaged, in every possible way; two or three forms; a detached desk for Squeers; and another for his assistant. The ceiling was supported, like that of a barn, by cross-beams and rafters; and the walls were so stained 10.and discoloured, that it was impossible to tell whether they had ever been touched with paint or whitewash.
But the pupils - the young noblemen! How the last faint traces of hope, the remotest glimmering of any good to be derived from his efforts in this den, faded from the mind of Nicholas as he looked in dismay around! Pale and 15.haggard faces, lank and bony figures, children with the countenances of old men, deformities with irons upon their limbs, boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies, all crowded on the view together; there were the bleared eye, the hare-lip, the crooked foot, and every ugliness or distortion that told of unnatural 20.aversion conceived by parents for their offspring, or of young lives which, from the earliest dawn of infancy, had been one horrible endurance of cruelty and neglect. There were little faces which should have been handsome, darkened with the scowl of sullen, dogged suffering.

11. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase which shows that the Nicholas is not paying attention to his surroundings . 1 mark
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2. From lines 8-12, give two ways in which the room is in poor condition. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 15-20, how does the writer use language and structure to show the conditions of the students?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to depict the poor conditions of the school.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

12. Dracula by Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker’s Journal (continued)
In this extract Harker has just fallen asleep in a room other than his own bedroom, something that Count Dracula warned would not be safe.
Jonathan Harker’s Journal (continued)
15 May . . .
1.I was not alone. The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it. I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their 5.dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, they threw no shadow on the floor. They came close to me, and looked at me for some time, and then whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes, that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow 10.moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where. All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was 15.something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain, but it is the truth. They whispered together, and then they all three laughed, 20.such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of waterglasses when played on by a cunning hand. The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on. One said: “Go on! You are first, and we shall follow. Yours’ is 25.the right to begin.” The other added: “He is young and strong. There are kisses for us all.” I lay quiet, looking out from under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her 30.voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

13. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify a phrase which shows the room hasn’t been cleaned. 1 mark
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2. From lines 5-10, give two actions of the women. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 14-19, how does the writer use language and structure to show that Harker is attracted to the women?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to create a supernatural atmosphere.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks

14. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry Fielding
This extract from The Portrait of a Lady (1881) marks the point in the novel where Isabel Archer sees clearly that her husband does not love her. It comes as a dark realisation.
1.It was as if he had had the evil eye; as if his presence were a blight and his favour a misfortune. Was the fault in himself, or only in the deep mistrust she had conceived for him? This mistrust was the clearest result of their short married life; a gulf had opened between them over which they looked at each 5.other with eyes that were on either side a declaration of the deception suffered. It was a strange opposition, of the like of which she had never dreamed—an opposition in which the vital principle of the one was a thing of contempt to the other. It was not her fault—she had practised no deception; she had only admired and believed. She had taken all the first steps in the 10.purest confidence, and then she had suddenly found the infinite vista of a multiplied life to be a dark, narrow alley, with a dead wall at the end. Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and 15.earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure. It was her deep distrust of her husband— this was what darkened the world. That is a sentiment easily indicated, but not so easily explained, and so composite in its character that much time and still more 20.suffering had been needed to bring it to its actual perfection. Suffering, with Isabel, was an active condition; it was not a chill, a stupor, a despair; it was a passion of thought, of speculation, of response to every pressure. She flattered herself, however, that she had kept her failing faith to herself—that no one suspected it but Osmond. Oh, he knew it, and there were times when 25.she thought that he enjoyed it. It had come gradually—it was not till the first year of her marriage had closed that she took the alarm. Then the shadows began to gather; it was as if Osmond deliberately, almost malignantly, had put the lights out one by one. The dusk at first was vague and thin, and she could still see her way in it. But it steadily increased, and if here and there 30.it had occasionally lifted, there were certain corners of her life that were impenetrably black. These shadows were not an emanation from her own mind; she was very sure of that; she had done her best to be just and temperate, to see only the truth. They were a part of her husband’s very presence. They were not his misdeeds, his turpitudes; she accused him of 35.nothing—that is, of but one thing, which was not a crime. She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her.

15. Answer the exam-style Questions:
From lines 1–5, identify the phrase which outlines the reason for the failed marriage. 1 mark
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2. From lines 10-15, give two reasons why Moll will lose her husband. 2 marks
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
3. In lines 26–31, how does the writer use language and structure to show the breaking down of the marriage?
Support your views with reference to the text. 6 marks
4. In this extract, there is an attempt to create a sense of betrayal.
Evaluate how successfully this is achieved.
Support your views with detailed reference to the text.
15 marks