Reputation and secrecy — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Reputation and secrecy
Themes
What you need to know
How Stevenson explores reputation, respectability, secrecy and silence among Victorian gentlemen across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask', 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'a profound duplicity of life', 'Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!', 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll'.
Silence among gentlemen: the sealed documents, the unasked questions, and what reputation hides.
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.
