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GCSE English Literature · key term
Language or behaviour that insults God or something regarded as sacred.
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Paper 2
Revise: Chapters 6 to 8The narrator describes it in Chapter 8 as ‘annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies’. Blasphemies insult God or sacred beliefs. The contradiction between the book’s pious purpose and Jekyll’s handwritten insults suggests conflict within a man recently distinguished for religion.
Speech or writing that insults God or something regarded as sacred.
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Component 2
An expression or action showing disrespect towards God or something regarded as sacred.
Revise: Science and religionReligion is directly attacked when, in Chapter 8, Utterson discovers “startling blasphemies” written in Jekyll’s hand in a religious book. Chapter 10 attributes this defacement to Hyde. The later explanation turns a puzzling object into evidence of Hyde’s hostility towards Jekyll’s religious attachments.
