Chapters 28 to 35: Moor House — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Chapters 28 to 35: Moor House
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Jane destitute on the moors, taken in at Moor House (Marsh End) by St John, Diana and Mary Rivers, teaching at the Morton school,
the inheritance and the discovery that the Rivers are her cousins, St John's proposal that she go to India as his wife, and the voice that calls her back.
Key quotations: 'I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature', 'I can but die', 'Is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles', 'free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England', 'Glorious discovery to a lonely wretch!', 'This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!', 'Jane, come with me to India', 'If I join St. John, I abandon half myself', 'I am ready to go to India, if I may go free', 'Jane! Jane! Jane!', 'I am coming! ... Wait for me!', 'It was my time to assume ascendency'.
Structure: Moor House as a mirror of Gateshead, with cousins who take Jane in where the Reeds shut her out, and a second proposal that tests her as the first did.
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.
