How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll, and how the character develops across the text: a respected scientist whose wish to separate his two natures destroys him.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty', 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'man is not truly one, but truly two', 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self', 'I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end'.
Context: Victorian respectability and secret vice, and Jekyll as a scientist who oversteps limits.
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.
