Reputation and secrecy — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Reputation and secrecy
Themes
What you need to know
How Stevenson explores reputation, respectability, secrecy and silence among Victorian gentlemen across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask', 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!', 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll'.
Silence among gentlemen: the sealed documents, the unasked questions, and what reputation hides.
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.
