Science and religion — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Science and religion
Themes
What you need to know
How Stevenson explores science, the supernatural and religion, and the limits of knowledge 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: 'Such unscientific balderdash', 'Satan's signature upon a face', 'My life is shaken to its roots', 'the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me', 'the slime of the pit'.
Jekyll's 'transcendental' science against Lanyon's materialism, and religious language of sin and the devil.
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.
