Themes

Question 1

What are the 5 key themes of Jekyll and Hyde?

Answer 1

Science
Dual Nature of Man
Religion & Sin
Violence & Horror
Victorian Gentlemen

Question 2

(science) What book did Darwin write?

Answer 2

On the Origin of Species (1859)

Question 3

(science) What quotes present Hyde as a primitive being? (3)

Answer 3

Snarled aloud into a savage laugh
Satan’s signature upon a face
With ape-like fury

Question 4

(science) What do Jekyll’s experiments symbolise?

Answer 4

Science destroying the order of rigid Victorian society

Question 5

(science) What vaugue and ambiguos quotes describe Jekyll’s drugs? (2)

Answer 5

Some white salt

Some strange things

Question 6

(dual nature of man) What does Stevenson use to allude to the internal conflict within Jekyll?

Answer 6

Battle language

‘contended in the field’

Question 7

(dual nature of man) How did Victorian’s view themselves?

Answer 7

Highly evolved

Criminals were degenerates

Question 8

(dual nature of man) How did Stevenson address the possibilty every human has an uncivilised side?

Answer 8

Using Darwin’s theory of evolution

Question 9

(dual nature of man) What quote shows that Jekyll always had evil in him?

Answer 9

My devil had long bene caged, he came out roaring

Question 10

(dual nature of man) What is hypocrisy?

Answer 10

Pretending you have higher standards or more noble or superior beliefs than you actually do

Question 11

(dual nature of man) What did Stevenson want to show about Victorian society?

Answer 11

Victorian society was hypocrticial and there was a void between reality and appearance

Question 12

(dual nature of man) What does Hyde’s ‘displeasing smile’ represent?

Answer 12

That he does not hide his appearance

Question 13

(religion & sin) What type of Christian belief did Utterson represent?

Answer 13

Evangelicalism

Question 14

(religion & sin) What do Jekyll and Hyde symbolise?

Answer 14

Good and evil

Question 15

(religion & sin) What does jekyll think of sin?

Answer 15

It is the ‘burden of his life’

Question 16

(religion & sin) What does Stevenson use the Israeli tabernacle to reference?

Answer 16

How jekyll wants to experiment with his body, with God himself

Question 17

(religion & sin) What does the quote ‘captives at Philippi’ represent?

Answer 17

Hyde being unexpected freed from his prison to cause more trouble

Question 18

(religion & sin) What does the ‘Babylonian finger’ foreshadow?

Answer 18

Jekyll’s death and evokes a feeling of doom

Question 19

(violence & horror) What quotation shows Hyde enjoyed his violence?

Answer 19

He feels ‘glee’

He tasted ‘delight from every blow’

Question 20

(violence & horror) What does ‘trampled calmly’ show about Hyde?

Answer 20

Juxtaposition indicates he feels no remorse for his crimes

Question 21

(violence & horror) What quotation shows Hyde is an embodiment of evil and epitomises everything citizens feared?

Answer 21

‘Satan’s signature upon face’

Question 22

(violence & horror) What was a common feature of Gothic novels around the time?

Answer 22

Two characters in one entity

Question 23

(victorian gentlemen) How were men expected to behave?

Answer 23

Repressed desires
Avoid egotistical behaviours
Strong morals and kind

Question 24

(victorian gentlemen) What social class were gentlemen from?

Answer 24

Upper class

Question 25

(victorian gentlemen) What were perks of being a gentleman?

Answer 25

Chance to enter well-paid professions
Gained respect
Important for children and arranged marriages

Question 26

(victorian gentlemen) What does Utterson care more about than bringing Hyde to trial?

Answer 26

Jekyll’s reputation

‘if it came to trial your name might appear’

Question 27

(victorian gentlemen) What does Utterson suffering nightmares represent?

Answer 27

Reputations are only based on appearances

Only facades people try to uphold to society