How Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll, and how the character develops across the text: a respected scientist whose wish to separate his two natures destroys him.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty', 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'man is not truly one, but truly two', 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self', 'I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end'.
Context: Victorian respectability and secret vice, and Jekyll as a scientist who oversteps limits.
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.
