Chapters 4 and 5 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 4 and 5
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The Carew Murder Case and Incident of the Letter: the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, the search of Hyde's rooms and the forged letter.
Key quotations: 'with ape-like fury', 'hailing down a storm of blows', 'the bones were audibly shattered', 'a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven', 'a district of some city in a nightmare', 'I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again', 'Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!'.
The fog and Soho as Gothic setting, and Utterson's choice to protect Jekyll's reputation by keeping the letter quiet.
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.
