Themes Flashcards
What are the 5 key themes of Jekyll and Hyde?
Science Dual Nature of Man Religion & Sin Violence & Horror Victorian Gentlemen
(science) What book did Darwin write?
On the Origin of Species (1859)
(science) What quotes present Hyde as a primitive being? (3)
Snarled aloud into a savage laugh
Satan’s signature upon a face
With ape-like fury
(science) What do Jekyll’s experiments symbolise?
Science destroying the order of rigid Victorian society
(science) What vaugue and ambiguos quotes describe Jekyll’s drugs? (2)
Some white salt
Some strange things
(dual nature of man) What does Stevenson use to allude to the internal conflict within Jekyll?
Battle language
‘contended in the field’
(dual nature of man) How did Victorian’s view themselves?
Highly evolved
Criminals were degenerates
(dual nature of man) How did Stevenson address the possibilty every human has an uncivilised side?
Using Darwin’s theory of evolution
(dual nature of man) What quote shows that Jekyll always had evil in him?
My devil had long bene caged, he came out roaring
(dual nature of man) What is hypocrisy?
Pretending you have higher standards or more noble or superior beliefs than you actually do
(dual nature of man) What did Stevenson want to show about Victorian society?
Victorian society was hypocrticial and there was a void between reality and appearance
(dual nature of man) What does Hyde’s ‘displeasing smile’ represent?
That he does not hide his appearance
(religion & sin) What type of Christian belief did Utterson represent?
Evangelicalism
(religion & sin) What do Jekyll and Hyde symbolise?
Good and evil
(religion & sin) What does jekyll think of sin?
It is the ‘burden of his life’
(religion & sin) What does Stevenson use the Israeli tabernacle to reference?
How jekyll wants to experiment with his body, with God himself
(religion & sin) What does the quote ‘captives at Philippi’ represent?
Hyde being unexpected freed from his prison to cause more trouble
(religion & sin) What does the ‘Babylonian finger’ foreshadow?
Jekyll’s death and evokes a feeling of doom
(violence & horror) What quotation shows Hyde enjoyed his violence?
He feels ‘glee’
He tasted ‘delight from every blow’
(violence & horror) What does ‘trampled calmly’ show about Hyde?
Juxtaposition indicates he feels no remorse for his crimes
(violence & horror) What quotation shows Hyde is an embodiment of evil and epitomises everything citizens feared?
‘Satan’s signature upon face’
(violence & horror) What was a common feature of Gothic novels around the time?
Two characters in one entity
(victorian gentlemen) How were men expected to behave?
Repressed desires
Avoid egotistical behaviours
Strong morals and kind
(victorian gentlemen) What social class were gentlemen from?
Upper class
(victorian gentlemen) What were perks of being a gentleman?
Chance to enter well-paid professions
Gained respect
Important for children and arranged marriages
(victorian gentlemen) What does Utterson care more about than bringing Hyde to trial?
Jekyll’s reputation
‘if it came to trial your name might appear’
(victorian gentlemen) What does Utterson suffering nightmares represent?
Reputations are only based on appearances
Only facades people try to uphold to society
