Jeckyll and hyde

Question 1

who is jekyle

Answer 1

Is a well respected doctor, well established in his community. Since his youth however he has always known he has a darker side it is in the novel that you see him as he tries to bring out his other side showing his dual personality.

Question 1

who is hyde

Answer 1

Is the result of Jekyll’s scientific experiments and is basically an evil side of Jekyll which violent and cruel. He becomes stronger throughout the novel and soon Jekyll is finding it impossible to surpress him. This then ends with Jekyll dying.

Question 2

utterson

Answer 2

A proper victorian gentleman who does not participate in idle gossip. He is quite reserved and slightly tedious, lacking alot of imagination. Throughout the novel Utterson acts as a detective as he tries to discover what is going on.

Question 3

dr lanyon

Answer 3

Also a well respected doctor, Lanyon does not think that Jekyll is doing the right thing when he starts messing around with science as he has a ‘fear of the unknown’ but he agrees to help when Jekyll sends a letter asking for him.

Question 4

mr enfield

Answer 4

A distant cousin and a lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson. Like Utterson is reserved and scornful of gossip. They also enjoy going on long evening walks together although most times they barely speak.

Question 5

mr guest

Answer 5

Is Uttersons clerk. He is an expert in handwriting and notices that Jekyll and Hyde have the exact same handwriting except they slant in opposite ways.

Question 6

poole

Answer 6

Is Jekyll’s butler and has worked with him for roughly 20 years and gets extremely worried when Jekyll confines himself to his room.

Question 7

sir danvers carew

Answer 7

An MP (member of parliment) also a client of Uttersons. He is a kind and noble man who is murdered by an angry Mr. Hyde, a young maid witnesses the murder from a window and reports to the police that it was indeed Hyde who killed Carew.

Question 8

good vs evil

Answer 8

Jekyll is seen as a good character but who has an evil side, Hyde, his alter-ego. He spends his whole life trying to supress this darker side but he decides to see if he can split himself into good and evil but the evil side ends up been more dominant destroying Jekyll in the process.

Question 9

Freud (pronounced Froid)

Answer 9

A psychologist in the 1800’s researching the human mind and how people can have split personalities. Stevenson wouldn’t have known this at the time he wrote the novel as Freud’s research was not released ‘til a later date.

Question 10

Religion ‘vs’ science

Answer 10

In the novel Lanyon did not agree with the way in which Jekyll was dabbling with science and questioning religion. In reality a scientist named Darwin was also questioning religion when he investigated if maybe the world formed in a different way (evolution) than religion told.

Question 11

appearance

Answer 11

In this novel it shows in great detail that back in the victorian era, what was on the exterior was all that mattered, everyone keeps up a facade. Jekyll has to try and surpress his inner dark side as he has expectations that he must keep up, been a doctor from a wealthy family. Also on the outside of Jekyll’s house out the front there is a neat, grand entrance. Whilst at the back it’s a dark and dingy doorway which is the entrance that Hyde uses.

Question 12

1. Story of the door

Answer 12

Utterson and Enfield take their usual Sunday walk, whilst walking they spot a neglected building and Enfield recites a story of what happened to him one night. He walked down a road and saw a deformed looking man trample on a young girl, Stevenson describes the man as a ‘juggernaut’. Enfield and the girls family threaten the man and he agrees to give them a check he takes them to the door of the neglected building to give them the check. The check is from a man named Mr. Hyde. They decide to never talk about the matter again.

Question 13

2. Search for Mr. HydeTwo weeks later Jekyll holds a successful dinner party. Utterson intends to make a joke about Hyde but Jekyll goes pale and looks afraid, he tells Utterson “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.”

Answer 13

‘if he be mr hyde then i shall be mr seek’-Utterson
When Utterson gets home from his walk he takes a look at his client, Jekylls, will. It states that if Jekyll disappears or dies then everything gets left to a Mr. Hyde. Utterson spends the night having nightmares about how a faceless man runs down a street, trampling over a young girl and then stands beside Jekyls bed. Utterson begins to spend time next to where Enfield saw Hyde enter. After a while he has a small encounter with Hyde, in which he experiences the same sensation of horror when he see’s him as all of the others who have met him. Utterson assumes Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll and worries for his friends well-being.

Question 14

3. Dr. Jekyll was quite at ease

Answer 14

Two weeks later Jekyll holds a successful dinner party. Utterson intends to make a joke about Hyde but Jekyll goes pale and looks afraid, he tells Utterson “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.”

Question 15

4. The Carew murder case

Answer 15

About a year later a maid is looking out of a window when she see’s two men meet, one is Sir Danvers Carew the other is Hyde. She sits in the window and watches as Hyde beats down and kills Carew with his cane. Utterson takes the police to Hyde’s house in Soho, where they are greeted by a villinauous looking woman who is Hyde’s maid. There is no sign of Mr. Hyde anywhere.

Question 16

5. Incident of the letter

Answer 16

Utterson calls on Jekyll where he finds Jekyll looking extremely ill saying that no more will be seen of Mr. Hyde, he then gives Utterson a letter from Hyde saying it came by hand. The letter states that Hyde is leaving. Utterson questions Poole about who left the letter but Poole says that no-one delivered one. That evening he takes the letter to the clerk who identifies Hyde’s writing is the same as Jekyll’s just slanted in the other direction.

Question 17

6. Remarkable incident of Dr. Lanyon

Answer 17

Jekyll is soon looking more healthy and host’s a dinner party in which him, Utterson and Lanyon talk like old friends again, but next time Utterson calls on Jekyll, Poole tells him Jekyll will not admit anyone. This scenario repeats itself and when Utterson goes to visit Lanyon he finds him looking sickly and frail saying he does not wish to see Jekyll. Not long later Lanyon dies.

Question 18

7. Incident at the window

Answer 18

Utterson and Enfield are taking their stroll when they pass Jekyll’s house they talk about how Hyde used that doorway and then go to look through the window when Utterson expresses his concern for his friend. To their shock Jekyll is sat by the window they start to talk to him and tell him to join them on their walk. All of a sudden his face seems to change and a look of terror comes over him, he slams shut the window. Utterson and Enfield depart in shocked silence.

Question 19

8. The last night

Answer 19

Poole visits Utterson one night he tells him that he is concerned for Jekylls wellfare. They decide to break into the ‘cabinet’ where Jekyll has confined himself. Once they get inside they find Hyde dead in Jekylls clothing and holding a crushed vial, but there is no sign of Jekyll. On the table there is an envelope addressed to Utterson containing 3 letters the first is another will, leaving everything to Utterson. The next tells him to read the letter Lanyon left him, the third is a confession that he can read if he wishes to know more.

Question 20

9. Dr. Lanyon’s narrative

Answer 20

It is a letter from Lanyon’s point of view saying that he recieved a letter from Jekyll telling him to remove a drawer from his ‘cabinet’ with all it’s contents then wait at his house until midnight when someone will come and collect it. At midnight Lanyon opened the door to a man who was in fact Hyde, yet Lanyon did not know as he had never met him before. Hyde started mixing together ingrediants until he had a red mixture. He told Lanyon he could stay and watch him drink it or leave. Out of curiosity he stays to watch and see’s as Hyde transforms back into Jekyll. He ends the letter saying that it was too horrifying and that the events would lead to his death in the near future.

Question 21

10. Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case

Answer 21

This letter is from Jekyll where he say’s from birth he inherited a large amount of wealth and everyone had high expectations of him, but he always knew he had a darker side. He started experimenting to see if it was possible for him to create a potion with which he could split himself into two different people. Problems arised however when he became addicted to the otion and had to take it to stay as Jekyll as the Hyde part of him became more dominant. He began to run out of potion and could not get the ingrediants of the same purity, he knew if he showed himself he would be locked up for murdering Carew. He uses the last of the potion to transform into Jekyll to compose himself to write that final letter, he knows soon there will be no more Henry Jekyll but has no idea what will happen to Edward Hyde.