Plot overview — Jane Eyre — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Plot overview
Introduction
What you need to know
The whole novel in brief, setting by setting, and how Jane's journey from Gateshead to Ferndean is told as her own autobiography.
Where each setting's key moments fall, and how each place marks a stage in Jane's growth, from ten-year-old orphan to married woman.
The novel as a fictional autobiography, first published in three volumes in 1847, running from 'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day' to 'Reader, I married him'.
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.
