Chapters 6 to 10 — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Chapters 6 to 10
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Clerval nurses Victor back to health, William is murdered, Victor glimpses the creature in a storm, Justine is tried and executed,
and Victor meets the creature on the glacier below Mont Blanc.
Key quotations: 'William is dead!', 'the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck', 'so beautiful yet terrific', 'Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child', 'my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave', 'Justine also was a girl of merit', 'I did confess; but I confessed a lie', 'the fangs of remorse tore my bosom', 'She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!', 'I wandered like an evil spirit', 'do you dare approach me?', 'I expected this reception', 'I will glut the maw of death', 'Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light!'.
Setting: the storm over the Alps and the glacier below Mont Blanc as sublime backdrops to Victor's two meetings with the creature.
Structure: Justine's trial and Victor's silence, and the creature's demand to be heard, which opens his own narrative.
Context: the sublime, the mixture of awe and terror Victor seeks in the mountains.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
