Chapters 6 to 8 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 6 to 8
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon, Incident at the Window and The Last Night: Lanyon's shock and death, the face at the window, and the breaking of the cabinet door.
Key quotations: 'I have had a shock', 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll', 'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also', 'such abject terror and despair', 'weeping like a woman or a lost soul', 'Down with the door, Poole!', 'a dismal screech, as of mere animal terror', 'the body of a self-destroyer'.
How the third-person narrative builds suspense and withholds the answer until the documents of Chapters 9 and 10.
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.
