Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE 2025/2026 ENGLISH LITERATURE 8ETO/02 MERGED QUESTION PAPER+ MARK SCHEME

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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Friday 23 May 2025
Morning (Time: 1 hour 15 minutes) Paper
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8ET0/02
English
Literature
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Advanced Subsidiary
PAPER 2: Prose

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Prescribed texts (clean copies)



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• The total mark for this paper is 44.
Advice

• Read your chosen question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answer if you have time at
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, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be pre-1900.

Begin your answer on page 8.




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Childhood

Texts

Pre-1900: What Maisie Knew, Henry James; Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Post-1900: Atonement, Ian McEwan; The Color Purple, Alice Walker

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1 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present characters’ experience of home.
In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts




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• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 1 = 44 marks)


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2 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present separation. In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts
• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 2 = 44 marks) AREA
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, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be
pre-1900.
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Begin your answer on page 8.

Text Colonisation and its Aftermath
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Pre-1900: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Mark Twain Post-1900: Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie; The Lonely Londoners, Sam
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Selvon

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3 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present characters who are disempowered.
In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts
• relevant contextual factors.
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(Total for Question 3 = 44 marks)


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4 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present hostility. In your answer you must consider the following:
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• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts
• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 4 = 44 marks)
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, Answer ONE question on your chosen texts, one of which must be pre-1900.

Begin your answer on page 8.




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Crime and Detection

Text
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Pre-1900: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon; The Moonstone, Wilkie
Collins Post-1900: The Cutting Season, Attica Locke; In Cold Blood, Truman
Capote

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5 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present threat. In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts




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• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 5 = 44 marks)


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6 Compare the ways in which the writers of your two chosen texts
present the impact of social expectations.
In your answer you must consider the following:
• the writers’ methods
• links between the texts
• relevant contextual factors.
(Total for Question 6 = 44 marks)
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