Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Jekyll's confession: his double life, the experiment, Hyde's growing power, Carew's murder, and his last hours.
Key quotations: 'man is not truly one, but truly two', 'the thorough and primitive duality of man', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring', 'pure evil', 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self', 'the slime of the pit', 'I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end'.
Jekyll's confession: how far he takes responsibility, and his use of 'he' and 'I' for Hyde.
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.
