AQA GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTION PAPER 1 2023 (8702-1: Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel)

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AQA GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTION PAPER 1 2023 (8702-1: Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel)Â

Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 3 of Macbeth and then answer the questionÂ
that follows.
At this point in the play, Macbeth hears that the English army is approaching and asks theÂ
Doctor for a report about Lady Macbeth.
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MACBETH Seyton! â€“ I am sick at heart,
When I behold â€“ Seyton, I say! â€“ this push
Will cheer me ever or disseat me now.
I have lived long enough. My way of life
Is fallâ€™n into the sere, the yellow leaf,
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seyton!
Â Enter SEYTON
SEYTON Whatâ€™s your gracious pleasure?
MACBETH What news more?
SEYTON All is confirmed, my lord, which was reported.
MACBETH Iâ€™ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
Give me my armour.
SEYTON â€™Tis not needed yet.
MACBETH Iâ€™ll put it on;
Send out more horses; skirr the country round.
Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.
How does your patient, doctor?
DOCTOR Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
That keep her from her rest.
MACBETH Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?

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Published	30 Jul 2024
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