Jekyll essay plans

Question 1

Hyde

Answer 1

Stevenson presents Hyde as gaining power throughout the novel to show the reader the power of evil and sin ‘slowly losing hold of my original and better self’ ‘irregularities’ ‘drunkard’

Hyde is all about development of character

Question 2

Duality

Answer 2

Setting - Dr Jekyll’s house, front is how he is seen in society, back is the evil hidden side

London - ‘Shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood’. London reflects conflict and duality inside

Stevenson has used the idea of duality to comment on, and criticise, Victorian society. ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’ ‘irregularities’ ‘pleasures’ ‘concealed’

Question 3

Utterson

Answer 3

Utterson’s actions reflect his curiosity, not just in Hyde, but in all evil as well as his relationship with Jekyll ‘singularly strong, almost an inordinate curiosity’ ‘by all lights and at all hours’

Curiosity - ‘If he shall be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr seek’ ‘‘the last good influence in the lives of down-going men’

Appearance - presented as rough and tough - “‘rugged countenance’ and that ‘is was never lighted by a smile’

Question 4

Lanyon

Answer 4

Stevenson presents conflicts within the scientific views of Lanyon and Jekyll to reflect the conflicts within science of the time period ‘wholly towards the mystic and transcendental’ ‘unscientific balderdash’

Lanyon is used in the novel to indicate what happens if you look too far down ‘Queer Street’ and that being inquisitor can lead to a downfall

Question 5

Reputation

Answer 5

Stevenson makes the characters of the novel to be obsessed with maintaining their reputation to criticise Victorian society ‘if it came to a trial, your name might appear’ ‘a commonly grave countenance before the public’ ‘respectable’

Stevenson has used the idea of dual nature of man to present the idea of reputation as hypocritical. ‘Concealed’ ‘pleasures’ ‘double dealer’ ‘man is not truly one, but truly two’ ‘irregularities’

Reputation leads to evil. !!!Criticism!!

Question 6

Violence

Answer 6

Stevenson frequently compares Hyde to animals within the novel, particularly apes, to comment on people and society and to highlight the violence that we all inhibit. ‘Ape-like’ ‘dwarfish’

during the rising action of the novel, Stevenson has used dynamic verbs to highlight to the 19th century reader the extent of Hyde’s (and therefore Jekyll’s) violence. ‘With ape-like fury’ ‘trampling his victim under foot’ ‘hailing down a storm of blows’

development of evil

Question 7

Good and evil

Answer 7

Setting representation - London

Conflict between good and evil - ‘man is not truly one but truly two’ ‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

Relationship between Jekyll and Hyde

Question 8

Jekyll

Answer 8

presented as a man suffering from the reputation

Man is not truly one but truly two

He began to go wrong

loses control

Question 9

Conflict

Answer 9

Main theme

Conflict of good and evil / Jekyll and Hyde

conflict of scientific balderdash

conflict of the mind - All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil

conflict of setting