Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon's Narrative — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon's Narrative
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Lanyon's letter: the drawer from Jekyll's cabinet, Hyde's visit, and the transformation that destroys Lanyon.
Key quotations: 'he put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp', 'like a man restored from death', 'there stood Henry Jekyll!', 'My life is shaken to its roots', 'the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me'.
Lanyon's narrative as a first-hand, scientific witness, and the transformation seen from outside.
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.
