Chapters 53 to 61 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 53 to 61
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Bingley's return and engagement to Jane, Lady Catherine's visit to Longbourn, Darcy's second proposal, the family's reactions and the marriages that end the novel.
Key quotations: 'I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!', 'You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet, to understand the reason of my journey hither', 'Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?', 'Obstinate, headstrong girl!', 'You are too generous to trifle with me', 'My affections and wishes are unchanged', 'Are you out of your senses to be accepting this man?', 'I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley', 'For the liveliness of your mind, I did', 'Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters'.
Structure: the second proposal answering the first, Lady Catherine's visit bringing the couple together against her wishes, and an ending that settles every character's fate.
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.
