Writer's methods — Jekyll and Hyde — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Stevenson's form, structure and language create meaning: the Gothic novella, the mystery structure and its delayed revelation,
multiple narrators and documents, setting (London, fog and the door), and animal and devilish imagery.
The Gothic novella, and the mystery structure that withholds the truth until the last two chapters.
Multiple narrators and documents: Enfield's story, Utterson's investigation, Lanyon's letter and Jekyll's statement.
Setting (fog, the door and Soho), and animal and devilish imagery for Hyde.
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.
