Jekyll and Hyde Week Two Flashcards
‘Mr. Utterson… was never lighted by a …………….. …yet somehow ………………….’
smile, lovable
‘The door, which was equipped with neither ………… nor …………….’
bell, knocker
‘The marks of prolonged and sordid ………………………..’
negligence
‘He must be ……………………. somewhere’
deformed
‘trampled ………………… over the child’s body’
calmly
What theory did Charles Darwin present in ‘The Origin of the Species’ in 1859?
The Theory of Evolution
Why did this theory shock the Christian population?
This shook the Christian population to their very core, as it directly challenged the creation story, and therefore, God.
Define Darwinism.
The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin.
‘This was a hearty, ………………, dapper, red-faced gentleman’ (Dr Lanyon)
healthy
‘Unscientific …………………………………’
balderdash
‘Something …………………………….’
troglodytic
‘Lanyon…an ……………………… blatant pedant…I was never more ………………………………… in any man than Lanyon’
ignorant, dispappointed
Who influenced the very strict moral attitude of the age?
Queen Victoria
Name three ways Victorians were expected to be respectable.
There was a strict moral attitude.
All words with vaguely sexual orindelicateconnotations were not to be used or replaced by euphemisms. Manners and speech were to be re-trained and sober.
Define ‘duality’.
A situation where two opposites exist at the same time; having two parts.
