Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Jekyll's confession: his double life, the experiment, Hyde's growing power, Carew's murder, and his last hours.
Key quotations: 'man is not truly one, but truly two', 'the thorough and primitive duality of man', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring', 'pure evil', 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self', 'the slime of the pit', 'I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end'.
Jekyll's confession: how far he takes responsibility, and his use of 'he' and 'I' for Hyde.
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.
