Chapters 1 to 3 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 1 to 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Story of the Door, Search for Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease: Enfield's story, the will, Utterson's meeting with Hyde, and Jekyll's reassurance.
What each chapter establishes about character and theme, with key quotations.
Key quotations: 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'trampled calmly over the child's body', 'it was like some damned Juggernaut', 'a kind of black, sneering coolness', 'really like Satan', 'the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask', 'If he be Mr. Hyde', 'I shall be Mr. Seek', 'pale and dwarfish', 'Satan's signature upon a face', 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde'.
Setting: the door and its 'sinister block of building', and Jekyll's house as a front with a hidden back.
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.
