Chapter 2 - Search for Mr Hyde

Question 1

Summarise what happens in this chapter?

Answer 1

1- Utterson goes to Lanyon with Jekylls will to see if Lanyon knows the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde
2- Hyde and Utterson meet at ‘the door’
3- Utterson goes to Jekylls house and questions poole on Hyde’s business with Jekyll

Question 2

What quote shows that Utterson is determined to uncover Hydes identity?

Answer 2

“If he shall be Mr Hyde…I shall be mr seek”

Question 3

Utterson regards Hyde with a ….

Answer 3

“Hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear”

Question 4

Hyde shrinks back with a “hissing…

Answer 4

intake of breath”

Question 5

Why is utterson confused about Jekylls relationship with Hyde?

Answer 5

He doesnt understand why an honourable man like Jekyll would be associated with a man like Hyde

Question 6

give a quote that explains why Utterson is scared for Jekyll?

Answer 6

Because he felt sure that he had read “satans signature on the face of Edward Hyde”

Question 7

Give a quote that describes Hydes laugh in this chapter?

Answer 7

“Snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

Question 8

Give a quote that shows Utterson is usually happy to go bed and what does this suggest?

Answer 8

“gratefully to bed”

• Utterson may be grateful to go to bed as he may want to be reborn as a new person and washed away from his past sins

Question 9

What was written on Jekylls will?

Answer 9

“In case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, all of his possessions were to pass into the hands of…Edward Hyde”

Question 10

Give a quote that showed that Jekylls will offended Utterson and why may this be?

Answer 10

“It offended him..as a lawyer”

• He doesnt want his reputation to be seen as one that helps criminals like Hyde

Question 11

Give an adjective that described Lanyon in this chapter and state what device was used in that adjective?

Answer 11

Lanyon was described as ‘healthy’ and this is ironic because he wont be healthy later on

Question 12

Give 2 quotes that shows how Lanyon felt about Jekyll?

Answer 12

1. “began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
   - the repetition of the vague word, wrong, shows that Lanyon didnt quite understand Jekylls actions
2. “unscientific balderdash”
   - this tells us what science was like during the Victorian era as Lanyon considered his work to be scientific but not Jekylls

Question 13

What does Lanyon say that reminds us of Hydes satanic characteristics in the first chapter?

Answer 13

“i have seen devilish little of the man”

Question 14

“great, dark, bed”

bed could also be a reference to…

Answer 14

lies as a bed is a place you lie in

Question 15

What 2 quotes implicitly reference Hydes transformation into Jekyll and vice versa

Answer 15

1. “to and fro”

2. “began to grow large” (in stature perhaps?)

Question 16

Give 2 quote that religion was a big part of everyones lives?

Answer 16

1. “6 o clock struck on the bells of the church”
2. “Good God” (Utterson)

• Tells us that religion controlled/surrounded everything so people may have felt a lack of freedom (like Jekyll)

Question 17

Give a quote that describes Uttersons imagination in this chapter and who could this refer to?

Answer 17

Uttersons imagination was “rather enslaved” and Jekyll may have felt like this before creating Hyde

Question 18

Give a quote that tells us when Utterson met Hyde and what does this suggest?

Answer 18

They met during a “fine dry night”

• Everything evil-related happens at night. This could be because things are easier to hide in the dark

Question 19

What quote suggests that even pure evil has to think things through sometimes?

Answer 19

“Mr Hyde appeared to hesitate”

Question 20

What quote and technique suggests that Utterson was scared, whilst he was in Jekylls hall?

Answer 20

“flickering of the firelight” (alliteration of the ‘f’ sound - fear?)

Question 21

How do we know that it is rude, in Victorian society, to be relieved at someones absence? Give a quote to support your answer?

Answer 21

Utterson was “ashamed of his relief” when he found out that Jekyll had gone out.

Question 22

We get a very subtle clue here that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, what is this clue?

Answer 22

Poole says that Jekyll had ‘gone out’, just after Utterson returns from meeting ‘Hyde’. (suspicious?)

Question 23

Give a quote that shows Jekylls behaviour when he was younger?

Answer 23

“He was wild when he was young”

Question 24

Give a quote that tells us how Utterson felt about Jekylls past and what could it suggest?

Answer 24

“His past was fairly blameless”

• maybe his past was fairly blameless because being wild at a young age was a feeling that many victorian gentlemen could relate to