How Stevenson explores violence, the animal in man and the fear of degeneration 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: 'trampled calmly over the child's body', 'with ape-like fury', 'hailing down a storm of blows', 'the bones were audibly shattered', 'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring'.
Context: degeneration and the animal in man, and violence as the release of what respectability holds back.
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.
