Jekyll and Hyde PEA Flashcards
Duality points
- Stevenson presents duality as something which is embedded in someone and their personality.
- Pressure to be presented as good represses the evil
- Dangerous, one personality can become too powerful and eliminate the other
- Effects what intellectual pleasures, moral behaviour and the life of the mind
Duality quotes
‘man is not truly one, but truly two’
‘primitive duality of man’
“the evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul”
‘rows of smiling saleswomen’ ‘sordid negligence’
“the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities”
Duality context
The pious nature of Victorian society meant that many people suppressed their desires and feelings. This
resulted in many people questioning their goodness as a human being due to the fact that religion
condemned these evil thoughts
Edinburgh was a city of two sides - he was raised in the wealthy New Town area, but spent his youth
exploring the darker, more sinister side of town
Lanyon points
- Lanyon is presented as outspoken in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as a man of logic in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as stubborn in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as knowledgeable in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as fearful of Jekyll in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as conventional in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as friendly in the novel.
- Lanyon is presented as faithful in the novel.
Lanyon quotes
“Unscientific balderdash.”
“I am quite done with that person.”
“My life is shaken to its roots” / “I have had a shock and I shall never recover”
“Jekyll became too fanciful for me.
“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again
Lanyon context
Importance of male friendship in Victorian society
Lanyon represents the rational and logical (opposite to Jekyll’s transcendental)
Dr Jekyll points
- Respectable- good doctor
- Excellent reputation and social class
- Feels repressed
- Emotional
- Kind and friendly
- Secretive
- Desperate- willing to risk death in order to spilt his soul
- Eager and curious to try new experiments
- Believes in spiritual science and argues with Lanyon – a man of logic and rationality.
Dr Jekyll quotes
“The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes”
“The smile was struck out of his face
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
The moment i choose i can be rid of mr hyde
Dr Jekyll context
- Represents the repression people felt in Victorian England as he so desperately wants to enjoy pleasures
society would have considered wrong. - Could also represent repression as he shows the inner fear of himself - the main source of fear throughout
the novel is a part of him. - Represents religion – difference between heaven and hell, and Jekyll and Hyde
- Represents the Christian belief that all humans are born with original sin
- Brings in the theme of duality and split personality
Mr Hyde points
- In the novel, Stevenson presents Hyde as wholly evil.
- In the novella, Robert Louis Stevenson portrays Hyde as against God / in league with the Devil.
- In the novel, Stevenson displays Edward Hyde as an escape for Jekyll.
- In the book, Stevenson presents Mr Hyde as animalistic.
- In the novella, Robert Louis Stevenson depicts Hyde as a fraction of Jekyll.
- Stevenson portrays Edward Hyde as out of place / alien.
- In the novel, Stevenson presents Hyde as being a monster.
- In the novel, Robert Louis Stevenson depicts Hyde as being the evil component of Jekyll.
Mr Hyde quotes
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
“ape like fury”
“pale and dwarfish”
“there is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable”
“haunting sense of unexpressed deformity”
Mr Hyde Context
