Characters - Jekyll

Question 1

Common perception of Jekyll in society

Answer 1

pink of the proprieties, celebrated too

(what makes it worse) one of your fellows do what they call good

Question 2

Lanyon’s current relationship with Jekyll

Answer 2

I continue to take an interest in him for old times sake

Question 3

Setting of Jekylls house

Answer 3

Ancient handsome houses
Air of wealth and comfort
Plunged into darkness

Question 4

Jekyll’s trying to ‘kick the habit’

Answer 4

Fortnight later … Give one of his pleasant dinners

Question 5

Utterson’s reaction to the thought of blackmail - shows the extent of it

Answer 5

It turns me cold to think of this creating stealing from (Jekyll)

Question 6

Jekyll thinks he has control over Hyde

Answer 6

The moment I choose I can be rid of Mr Hyde

Question 7

A scene after he says he has control over Hyde, he ‘cried’ that Hyde has to go - after Danvers Carew

Answer 7

I bind my honour that I am done with him

Question 8

Utterson knows something is different about Jekyll - they are so good friends he can tell

Answer 8

Different from the creaking of Jekyll

Question 9

Utterson knows somethings up- Jekyll’s action is far too strange for a respectable man of the time

Answer 9

What could Jekyll want with …. Blasphemies

Question 10

Jekylls last words - what he describes himself following the whole hyde issue

Answer 10

From … Unworthy and unhappy friend

Question 11

Why Jekyll felt ashamed of indulging in desires as Jekyll

Answer 11

I found it hard to reconcile with my impetuous desire to carry my head high

Question 12

The effect Hyde has on Jekyll - and Jekyll knows it (is jekyll liking it?)

Answer 12

I knew myself to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil

Question 13

He felt empowered that he was able to cover up his pleasures by another person ‘hired bravos’ - (but could not deal with his desires himself ? - not really that strong)

Answer 13

I was the first that ever did so for his own pleasures

Question 14

What connects Jekyll with Hyde

Answer 14

My two natures had memory in common … All other faculties were most unequally shared

Question 15

Jekyll’s reaction to Hyde after he sees what he can do

Answer 15

It was the horror of being Hyde that racked me

Question 16

Jekyll understand Hyde’s emotions

Answer 16

I find it in my heart to pity him

Question 17

Hypocrisy link

Answer 17

I was in no sense a hypocrite

(For both sides)

Dead earnest

Question 18

Jekyll’s emotion takes over his reason / he feels the need to add reason into emotion - may be guilty about being Hyde each time

Answer 18

Brought there later on for the very purpose of these transformations

Question 19

Jekyll’s view on what he and Hyde show

Answer 19

Man is not truly one but two

Question 20

Jekyll does not regret what he has done

Answer 20

Pious aspirations … Come forth an angel instead of a fiend

neither diabolical nor divine

Question 21

Jekyll’s pleasures before were worse when he was Jekyll

Answer 21

My pleasures were (to say the least) undignified

Question 22

Jekyll’s view on what pleasures he seeks with Hyde (less / the same as his own before? - confusing)

Answer 22

Undignified

I would scarce use a harsher term

Question 23

What Jekyll was like when he was Jekyll (in between transformations)

Answer 23

He woke again to his good qualities seemingly

But we see guilt from Jekyll - like he feels bad about at the same time

Make haste…undo the evil done byHyde

Question 24

Jekyll losing control

Answer 24

Slowly losing control of my original and better self

Question 25

Jekyll did not like Hyde better - or does he?

Answer 25

I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor

Question 26

Even when he tried to let go of Hyde, there was a bit inside him that couldnt

Answer 26

I neither gave up the house in Soho nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde

Question 27

Jekyll has permanently been scarred by hyde

Answer 27

Now how sadly altered

Question 28

Hyde’s effect on Jekyll at first

Answer 28

I felt younger, lighter, happier

Question 29

Jekyll was shocked by what Hyde did - he didnt believe even his bad side capable of doing things like that

Answer 29

Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast

Question 30

What is Jekyll described as in Chapter 3 by Utterson

Answer 30

Large well made, smoothed man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness

Question 31

What is it about Utterson that foreshadows Jekyll’s future at the beginning

Answer 31

frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men