Jaggers and Wemmick — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Jaggers and Wemmick
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents Jaggers and Wemmick, and how the character develops across the text: the powerful criminal lawyer who trusts only evidence, and his clerk who keeps the office and his home apart.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a post-office of a mouth', 'Get hold of portable property', 'you'll see a wild beast tamed', 'the office is one thing, and private life is another', 'he washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist', 'I like that Spider though', 'Wemmick walked among the prisoners much as a gardener might walk among his plants', 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence', 'I'll have no feelings here', 'Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil'.
Context: Newgate Prison and the Old Bailey courts where Jaggers works.
Jaggers's power over his clients, and Wemmick's two lives in Little Britain and at the Castle in Walworth.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
