Writer's methods — Jekyll and Hyde — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Stevenson's form, structure and language create meaning: the Gothic novella, the mystery structure and its delayed revelation,
multiple narrators and documents, setting (London, fog and the door), and animal and devilish imagery.
The Gothic novella and the 'shilling shocker', and the mystery structure that withholds the truth until the last two chapters.
Multiple narrators and documents: Enfield's story, Utterson's investigation, Lanyon's letter and Jekyll's statement.
Setting (fog, the door and Soho), and animal and devilish imagery for Hyde.
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.
