Duality

Question 1

How can the idea of mankind having two sides be seen?

Answer 1

it can be seen as a moral obligation humans have inherited and that without it it would be unnatural

Question 2

How can humanity be compared to Dr Jekyll about repressing their desires?

Answer 2

humanity can be seen as also having two sides of good and evil and they repress their desires to maintain reputation

Question 3

What happens if the duality of human nature is interfered with?

Answer 3

interfering with duality of human nature results in heavy consequences shown through the character of Dr Jekyll and his suicide

Question 4

‘man is not…but…’ (chap 10)

Answer 4

truly one

truly two

Question 5

‘it wasn’t like a man ; it was like some…’

Answer 5

dammed juggernaut

Question 6

‘I incline to…’ (chap 1)

Answer 6

Cain’s heresy

Question 7

‘…with himself’

Answer 7

austere

Question 8

‘why did he…’

Answer 8

cry out like a rat

Question 9

‘…fury’

Answer 9

ape-like

Question 10

‘He was perfectly cool and…’ (chap 1)

Answer 10

made no resistance

Question 11

‘There is something…with his appearance ; something…, something downright…’ (chap 1)

Answer 11

wrong

displeasing

detestable

Question 12

‘You must suffer me to… ; I have brought on myself a…’

Answer 12

go my own dark way

punishment

Question 13

‘Three…windows barred with iron’

Answer 13

dusty

Question 14

‘I was slowly losing hold of my…self, and becoming…with my second and worse

Answer 14

original and better

slowly incorporated

Question 15

‘I had supplied my…, I thought I sat beyond the…’

Answer 15

double with a signature

reach of fate

Question 16

How does Stevenson use setting to show duality?

Answer 16

Stevenson uses contrasting settings, like the grand facade of Jekyll’s house versus the neglected back door, to visually represent the duality of human nature and the coexistence of good and evil

Question 17

‘…block of building’

Answer 17

sinister

Question 18

‘The door, which was equipped with…, was…’

Answer 18

neither bell nor knocker

blistered and distained

Question 19

‘Mr. Hyde…and clubbed him to the…’

Answer 19

broke out of all bounds

earth

Question 20

‘he could…no longer ; …and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to…

Answer 20

doubt

broken

Henry Jekyll

Question 21

How does Stevenson use London to show duality?

Answer 21

Stevenson portrays Victorian London as a place where respectability and darkness exist side-by-side, with affluent streets juxtaposed against areas of poverty and degradation like Soho where Hyde lives, mirroring the duality within the characters.

Question 22

Why does Hyde live in Soho?

Answer 22

Hyde lives in Soho which is a part of London that was associated with crime and immoral living in the Victorian period so hence Hyde’s appearance and personality he lives there

Question 23

How does Stevenson present duality in chapter 10?

Answer 23

he marvels at how Hyde has taken over his life

once, Jekyll looked with pleasure on his twin, identifying with both Hyde and Jekyll equally

now the duality has turned to rivalry and the difference between good and evil has been blurred

Hyde is not the only creature with hatred in his heart

Question 24

How does Stevenson use Jekyll’s transformation to show the struggle between the two sides of mankind (good and evil)?

Answer 24

the transformation process itself is described as painful and unsettling, highlighting the struggle between the two sides of Jekyll’s personality

Question 25

'Satan's...upon a face'

Answer 25

signature

Question 26

How does Stevenson use man's dual nature to comment on society?

Answer 26

Stevenson uses the idea of duality to criticise respectable society and he suggests that the gap between appearance and reality in the people and places in Victorian London is hypocritical

Question 27

How does Jekyll's fate act as a warning?

Answer 27

Jekyll's fate is a warning about trying to hide who you are

Question 28

'he was now no less distinguished for...'

Answer 28

religion

Question 29

'...secret sinner'

Answer 29

ordinary

Question 30

How does the character of Jekyll represent a mixture of sin and virtue?

Answer 30

without Hyde, Jekyll lives a virtuous life and is 'distinguished for religion' and charity but he is also an 'ordinary secret sinner' therefore all people, including Jekyll, are a mixture of sin and virtue

Question 31

How does the character of Hyde represents the purely satanic side of Jekyll?

Answer 31

he writes all over Jekyll's religious text with 'startling blasphemies' and Jekyll calls Hyde 'My devil', and Utterson thinks that 'Satan's signature' is written upon Hyde's face

Question 32

What quote shows that Jekyll letting his sinful side take over was tempting?

Answer 32

'I felt younger, lighter, happier in body'

Question 33

What acts as proof that the sinful side to mankind is more powerful if we allow it to take over?

Answer 33

Hyde takes over in the end

Question 34

How can letting your sinful side take over be seen as unavoidable?

Answer 34

'sold a slave to my original evil' 'original evil' highlights that we are all born with it (Evangelism teaches that all of mankind are inevitably sinners because Adam and Eve sinned)

Question 35

How does Hyde act as Jekyll's uncivilised side?

Answer 35

he disrupts the ordered, civilised world that Jekyll and his friends live in

Question 36

Why could some of the upper-class Victorian see Hyde as less evolved?

Answer 36

same upper-class Victorians thought that people who committed crimes, or disrupted the social order, were less evolved this can refer to the Darwin theory that humans shared a common ancestor with apes

Question 37

How can the character of Poole portray the dual nature of mankind?

Answer 37

although Poole is a loyal, 'well-dressed' servant, he shouts at another servant 'with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves' which can be seen as animalistic