Science and religion — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
