How Stevenson presents Mr Utterson, and how the character develops across the text: the reserved lawyer and investigator through whose eyes most of the story is seen.
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 man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile', 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'If he be Mr. Hyde', 'I shall be Mr. Seek', 'Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!'.
Utterson as a reserved Victorian gentleman whose investigation is limited by his wish to protect reputations.
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.
