Dr Jekyll and Hyde (points and quotes for each theme)

Question 1

Three points, with quotes on duality, in the novella?

Question 2

Three points, with quotes, on duality in the novella?

Answer 2

1. At the start of the novella, when Utterson wants to know more about Hyde. “Jekyll’s face grew pale” and “there became a blackness to his eye”. Highlights need to keep a secret
2. Secrecy is presented as being used to protect Jekyll’s reputation.
3. Secrecy is presented as being increasingly more fragile towards the end.
   It then becomes uncovered “I was radically both”

Question 3

How is science presented in the novella?

Answer 3

1. Presented as having the capability to break friendships. “We may have differed at times on scientific questions” and “unscientific balderdash”
2. Science is presented as powerful and alarming. “the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror”
3. Science is presented as leading to the demise of Jekyll. “I bring that life of unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end”