Chapters 6 to 8 — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Chapters 6 to 8
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon, Incident at the Window and The Last Night: Lanyon's shock and death, the face at the window, and the breaking of the cabinet door.
Key quotations: 'I have had a shock', 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll', 'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also', 'such abject terror and despair', 'weeping like a woman or a lost soul', 'Down with the door, Poole!', 'a dismal screech, as of mere animal terror', 'the body of a self-destroyer'.
How the third-person narrative builds suspense and withholds the answer until the documents of Chapters 9 and 10.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
