Grade Boundaries (2019)

• A* = 90%
• A = 85%
• B = 80%

AO1 Generally good,

Section (a) - Extract

Section (b) - ‘Disturbing Fascination with death’

• Death inescapable in the play
• Hamlet’s contemplation,
• Hamlet’s witnessing of other deaths (father)
• Death portrayed through murder - play within the play
• Bloodbath at the end
• Context of suicide - actual and contemplated (Ham & Oph)
• Gravediggers - shift in Hamlet’s perspective of death
• Death inescapable - afterlife
• Death as metaphorical
  • Death of hope
  • Death of Denmark

Use the words “disturbing” and “fascination” as a springboard