Chapters 47 to 52 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 47 to 52
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The search for Lydia and Wickham, Mr Collins's letter, the hurried marriage, Lydia's visit home, and Mrs Gardiner's letter revealing Darcy's part.
Key quotations: 'You will laugh when you know where I am gone', 'loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable', 'The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this', 'let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame', 'Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds', 'he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her', 'their passions were stronger than their virtue', 'Ah! Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman', 'Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know'.
Context: elopement, the parents' consent needed in England to marry under 21, Gretna Green just over the Scottish border, and why one daughter's disgrace would harm her sisters' chances of marriage.
Structure: the news told through letters, from Lydia's note to Mrs Gardiner's account of what Darcy did, which the novel keeps hidden until Chapter 52.
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.
