Chapters 6 to 8 — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Chapters 6 to 8
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon, Incident at the Window and The Last Night: Lanyon's shock and death, the face at the window, and the breaking of the cabinet door.
Key quotations: 'I have had a shock', 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll', 'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also', 'such abject terror and despair', 'weeping like a woman or a lost soul', 'Down with the door, Poole!', 'a dismal screech, as of mere animal terror', 'the body of a self-destroyer'.
How the third-person narrative builds suspense and withholds the answer until the documents of Chapters 9 and 10.
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.
