Mr Utterson — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Mr Utterson
Characters
What you need to know
How Stevenson presents Mr Utterson, and how the character develops across the text: the reserved lawyer and investigator through whose eyes most of the story is seen.
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 man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile', 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'If he be Mr. Hyde', 'I shall be Mr. Seek', 'Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!'.
Utterson as a reserved Victorian gentleman whose investigation is limited by his wish to protect reputations.
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.
