Chapters 28 to 35: Moor House — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 28 to 35: Moor House
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Jane destitute on the moors, taken in at Moor House (Marsh End) by St John, Diana and Mary Rivers, teaching at the Morton school,
the inheritance and the discovery that the Rivers are her cousins, St John's proposal that she go to India as his wife, and the voice that calls her back.
Key quotations: 'I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature', 'I can but die', 'Is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles', 'free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England', 'Glorious discovery to a lonely wretch!', 'This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!', 'Jane, come with me to India', 'If I join St. John, I abandon half myself', 'I am ready to go to India, if I may go free', 'Jane! Jane! Jane!', 'I am coming! ... Wait for me!', 'It was my time to assume ascendency'.
Structure: Moor House as a mirror of Gateshead, with cousins who take Jane in where the Reeds shut her out, and a second proposal that tests her as the first did.
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.
