J + H - Science

Question 1

(chapter 2 pg 9) - 1

Answer 1

“Jekyll became too fanciful for me”
* Hints that Dr Lanyon remains stanch in the reason, rationale, and integrity of traditional science – used by Stevenson to demonstrate the extremes that exist in the realm of scientific research.
* Stevenson uses Lanyon as a foil to Jekyll highlighting the absurdities in some of Jekyll’s experimentation.
* The fricatives employed in “fanciful” creates a harsh tone implying his rejection of Jekyll’s experimentation - foreshadows the consequences of such experimentation - Hyde becomes all-consuming, and Jekyll can no longer control him

Question 2

(chapter 2 pg 9) - 2

Answer 2

‘Unscientific balderdash’
* Lanyon dismisses Jekyll’s current work as “unscientific” directly insulting his work – reveals Dr Lanyon’s traditional view on science and his outspoken attitude to those unlike him.
* Use of noun ‘balderdash’ shows frustration in Jekyll rejecting his progressive scientific views as nonsense - demonstrates how much he values rationality and integrity.

Question 3

(chapter 3 pg 14)

Answer 3

Jekyll describes Lanyon as a ‘hide-bound pedant’ exposing their differing scientific views.
* Jekyll’s cruel and dismissive tone highlights that Lanyon represents all that is wrong with the teaching of medicine.
* ‘Hide’ connotes animal skin used to make books suggesting that Lanyon is ‘bound’ by the book as he is a stickler for (what Jekyll views as) unnecessary rules, a ‘pedant’.

Question 4

(chapter 9 pg 41)

Answer 4

And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine…behold!”
* Lanyon’s thought process is ‘bound’ by the confines of traditional science.
* Hyde’s use of the ironic biblical reference to ‘virtue’ exposes his accusatory tone to Lanyon for being out of date/touch. This is further shown through the repetition of ‘you who’.

Question 5

(chapter 5 pg 19)

Answer 5

Utterson describes Jekyll’s lab as a ‘dingy, windowless structure’ with ‘the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw,’
* Stevenson describes Jekyll’s Laboratory as a ‘dingy, windowless structure’ – this implies that Jekyll’s science is dangerous / powerful – windowless suggests that he is trying to hide it. This reveals that Jekyll is selfish and hubristic in his use and abuse of science. Jekyll’s transcendental views of science contrasts Lanyon traditional views on science revealing how science possesses a duality of its own.
* The floor of Jekyll’s lab is described as ‘strewn with crates and littered with packing straw’. The past tense verbs ‘strewn’ and ‘littered’ connotes the haphazard unplanned nature of Jekyll’s use of science. This suggests that science has turned J into something frenzied and messy - not precise and methodical.

Question 6

(chapter 9 pg 38)

Answer 6

Lanyon describes Jekyll’s ebullition as a ‘highly pungent’ ‘blood-red liquor’.
* The harsh sounds in the adjective ‘pungent’ emphasises the power of the drug – adverb ‘highly,’ contrasts it with the rest of the surrounding exaggerating its supernatural power.
* ‘Blood-red’ emphasises the evil violent nature of the drug whereas ‘liquor’ emphasises the transformative power of the drug. In the Victorian era, this gothic description of the chemicals would exaggerate the supernatural power of the drug.

Question 7

essay structure

Answer 7

Science
P1: Extract
P2: scientific conflict L’s view on J / transcendental medicine – mistrusted during Victorian times - alchemy – threatens religion – gothic – witchcraft – Macbeth – fear of witches and supernatural
* (chapter 2 pg 9) - “Jekyll became too fanciful for me”
* (chapter 2 pg 9) - ‘Unscientific balderdash’

P3: scientific conflict J’s view on L / traditional medicine

• (chapter 3 pg 14) - ‘hide-bound pedant’
• (chapter 9 pg 41) - And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine…behold!”

P4: experimental nature of Jekyll’s science / transcendental medicine – mistrusted during Victorian times - alchemy – threatens religion – gothic – witchcraft – Macbeth – fear of witches and supernatural

• (chapter 5 pg 19) - Utterson describes Jekyll’s lab as a ‘dingy, windowless structure’ with ‘the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw,’
• (chapter 9 pg 38) - Lanyon describes Jekyll’s ebullition as a ‘highly pungent’ ‘blood-red liquor’. – gothic