Science and Religion

Question 1

Science and religion is shown through

Answer 1

• Jekylls science goes against religious beliefs
• Jekylls Experiments cause deaths and destruction
• Science leads to Jekyll’s suffering and fear for the readers

Question 2

‘Unscientific balderdash’

Answer 2

• insulting and dissimisive of Jekylls work
• hihglights lack of respect
• Lanyon values factual science - victorian fears of experiments crossing moral boundries
• conflict between traditional science and modern research

Question 3

‘Satan’s signature upon a face’

Answer 3

• satan was the devil
• Hyde is something unnatural against God
• metaphor suggest Hyde is marked by evil
• Hyde’s evil is innate and visible

Question 4

‘Ape-like fury trampling his victim’

Answer 4

• Charles Darwin theory of evolution
• Hyde is the less evolved side to Jekyll
• compares Hyde to animal
• unrestrained nature

Question 5

‘hardly human’

Answer 5

• alliteration
• draws attention to the fact that Hyde does not fit in society
• links to de-evolution

Question 6

‘some strange things’

Answer 6

• vague language
• creates mystery
• evoke fear in readers

Question 7

‘I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferes also’

Answer 7

• ‘sinners’ and ‘sufferers’ evokes Christian ideas of guilt and punishment
• Parrallelism = guilt and suffering are inseprable
• draws attention to the destuctive pyschological impact of living a double life
• repitition emphasises internal struggle

Question 8

Stevensons intentions through the conflict between science and religion

Answer 8

• science challenges moral beliefs and creates fear
• warns the readers that both science and religion can be corrupted
• reflects victorian fears and undermines traditional christian beliefs about good and evil