Science and religion — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Science and religion
Themes
What you need to know
How Stevenson explores science, the supernatural and religion, and the limits of knowledge 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: 'Such unscientific balderdash', 'Satan's signature upon a face', 'My life is shaken to its roots', 'the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me', 'the slime of the pit'.
Jekyll's 'transcendental' science against Lanyon's materialism, and religious language of sin and the devil.
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.
