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Question 1

“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”

Answer 1

-> repression
-> demonstrates moral code of Victorian gentlemen

Question 2

-> repression
-> demonstrates moral code of Victorian gentlemen

Answer 2

“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”

Question 3

“displeasing”, “disliked”, “deformed”

Answer 3

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> instantly see Hyde as evil due to his appearance
-> negative prefixes, alliterative (dental)

Question 4

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> instantly see Hyde as evil due to his appearance
-> negative prefixes, alliterative (dental)

Answer 4

“displeasing”, “disliked”, “deformed”

Question 5

“all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church”

Answer 5

-> dominant theme of Christianity
-> absence of religious belief and rejection of God through similie
-> light illuminates evil - antithesis

Question 6

“a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”

Answer 6

-> metaphorically depicting how Hyde took control over Jekyll
-> alliterative compound adjective depicting the conditions of Soho
-> “pall” - connotations with funerals and implies dominance of Christianity

Question 7

-> metaphorically depicting how Hyde took control over Jekyll
-> alliterative compound adjective depicting the conditions of Soho
-> “pall” - connotations with funerals and implies dominance of Christianity

Answer 7

“a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”

Question 8

“I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him” // “this will make a great deal of noise”

Answer 8

-> Hyde influences people to forsake Victorian conventions
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> reinforces Stevenson’s argument of duality by giving minor characters two sides as well as major characters

Question 9

-> Hyde influences people to forsake Victorian conventions
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> reinforces Stevenson’s argument of duality by giving minor characters two sides as well as major characters

Answer 9

“I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him” // “this will make a great deal of noise”

Question 10

“red-faced”, “flushing suddenly purple”, “the rosy man had grown pale”

Answer 10

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy), so Lanyon expresses himself through his appearance - paleness association with Hyde “sick and white”, “pale and dwarfish”, “grown pale”
-> Lanyon is an embodiment of Christian and Victorian values

Question 11

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy), so Lanyon expresses himself through his appearance - paleness association with Hyde “sick and white”, “pale and dwarfish”, “grown pale”
-> Lanyon is an embodiment of Christian and Victorian values

Answer 11

“red-faced”, “flushing suddenly purple”, “the rosy man had grown pale”

Question 12

“such unscientific balderdash […] would have estranged Damon and Pythias”

Answer 12

-> “balderdash” - contemporary noun
-> uses a Greek legend to reinforce rift between him and Jekyll
-> Lanyon values reason and integrity, suggesting that Jekyll is unconventional

Question 13

-> “balderdash” - contemporary noun
-> uses a Greek legend to reinforce rift between him and Jekyll
-> Lanyon values reason and integrity, suggesting that Jekyll is unconventional

Answer 13

“such unscientific balderdash […] would have estranged Damon and Pythias”

Question 14

“shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”

Answer 14

-> onomatopoeic reference to a snake - association with sin, Garden of Eden, Hyde embodies temptation
-> Hyde is described with animalistic verbs

Question 15

-> onomatopoeic reference to a snake - association with sin, Garden of Eden, Hyde embodies temptation
-> Hyde is described with animalistic verbs

Answer 15

“shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”

Question 16

“Satan’s signature upon a face”

Answer 16

-> sibilance
-> Hyde is the embodiment of evil and its displayed on his features (physiognomy)
-> religious imagery
-> possessive pronoun - Satan owns Hyde

Question 17

-> sibilance
-> Hyde is the embodiment of evil and its displayed on his features (physiognomy)
-> religious imagery
-> possessive pronoun - Satan owns Hyde

Answer 17

“Satan’s signature upon a face”

Question 18

“an ignorant, blatant pedant”

Answer 18

-> repetition of the word pedant (within the text, not this specific quote)
-> Jekyll views Lanyon’s rigid morals, traditional views and inability to accept unconventional scientific ideas as a major flaw and waste of his potential - “I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon”

Question 19

-> repetition of the word pedant (within the text, not this specific quote)
-> Jekyll views Lanyon’s rigid morals, traditional views and inability to accept unconventional scientific ideas as a major flaw and waste of his potential - “I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon”

Answer 19

“an ignorant, blatant pedant”

Question 20

“the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”

Answer 20

-> dramatic irony
-> parallel rhythm reflects Stevenson’s argument of duality

Question 21

-> dramatic irony
-> Stevenson’s argument of duality

Answer 21

“the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”

Question 22

“he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”

Answer 22

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> metaphor of Lanyon’s death being visible and inevitable like a legal document
-> severity of his death reflected through the contrast to “red-faced”

Question 23

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> metaphor of Lanyon’s death being visible and inevitable like a legal document
-> severity of his death reflected through the contrast to “red-faced”

Answer 23

“he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”

Question 24

“if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God’s name, go”

Answer 24

-> using religion as an output, unconventional and appears much more severe to a contemporary audience
-> Lanyon, the embodiment of religious morality, has been so heavily influenced by Hyde that he has lost sense of the strict rules he once obliged to

Question 25

-> using religion as an output, unconventional and appears much more severe to a contemporary audience -> Lanyon, the embodiment of religious morality, has been so heavily influenced by Hyde that he has lost sense of the strict rules he once obliged to

Answer 25

“if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God’s name, go”

Question 26

“very irregular, very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased”

Answer 26

-> distinction of class emphasised through semi-colon -> Utterson, an austere lawyer, chastises the servants who “stood huddled together like a flock of sheep” (similie) yet comforted Poole as he is the head of the servants and is of higher status -> Poole is subservient to Utterson yet controlling of his servants (“Hold your tongue!”)

Question 27

-> distinction of class emphasised through semi-colon -> Utterson, an austere lawyer, chastises the servants who “stood huddled together like a flock of sheep” (similie) yet comforted Poole as he is the head of the servants and is of higher status -> Poole is subservient to Utterson yet controlling of his servants (“Hold your tongue!”)

Answer 27

“very irregular, very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased”

Question 28

“has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?”

Answer 28

-> interrogative rhetorical questions -> Hyde embodying temptation and tempting even the strictest moral character to give into morbid curiosity (oxymorons ‘disgustful curiosity’ and ‘sombre excitement’) -> Lanyon succumbing to temptation results in his demise

Question 29

-> interrogative rhetorical questions -> Hyde embodying temptation and tempting even the strictest moral character to give into morbid curiosity (oxymorons ‘disgustful curiosity’ and ‘sombre excitement’) -> Lanyon succumbing to temptation results in his demise

Answer 29

“has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?”

Question 30

“professional in shape and size” - “swart growth of hair”

Answer 30

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy) -> involuntary transformation reflected through appearance, shifting of power and Stevenson’s view of duality

Question 31

-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy) -> involuntary transformation reflected through appearance, shifting of power and Stevenson’s view of duality

Answer 31

“professional in shape and size” - “swart growth of hair”

Question 32

“unresisting”, “lust”, “gratified”, “stimulated”

Answer 32

-> a biased, arguably sexualised description of Hyde’s immoral enjoyment of killing -> implication of madness through noun “delirium” -> this view would be shocking for a contemporary reader

Question 33

-> a biased, arguably sexualised description of Hyde’s immoral enjoyment of killing -> implication of madness through noun “delirium” -> this view would be shocking for a contemporary reader

Answer 33

“unresisting”, “lust”, “gratified”, “stimulated”

Question 34

Did Hyde kill one person, or two?

Answer 34

Two - Sir Danvers Carew directly, and Dr Lanyon indirectly

Question 35

“lifted his clasped hands to God”

Answer 35

-> seeks religious penitence, as was common of Victorians - being conventional, foreshadows Jekyll’s choice to be rid of Hyde and become moral once more -> loss of control of Jekyll

Question 36

-> seeks religious penitence, as was common of Victorians - being conventional, foreshadows Jekyll’s choice to be rid of Hyde and become moral once more -> loss of control of Jekyll

Answer 36

“lifted his clasped hands to God”

Question 37

“He, I say - I cannot say I. That child of Hell had nothing human”

Answer 37

-> crucial shift in Jekyll’s narrative - pronouns highlight how he is distancing himself from Hyde -> “child of Hell” - religious condemnation, possessive phrase to indicate how Hyde is owned by Hell

Question 38

-> crucial shift in Jekyll’s narrative - pronouns highlight how he is distancing himself from Hyde -> “child of Hell” - religious condemnation, possessive phrase to indicate how Hyde is owned by Hell

Answer 38

“He, I say - I cannot say I. That child of Hell had nothing human”

Question 39

“I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide”

Answer 39

-> Jekyll arguably holds ultimate power over Hyde -> referring to Hyde in the third person - separation from evil -> Stevenson’s view of duality and how good and evil must co-exist, one cannot exist without the other

Question 40

-> Jekyll arguably holds ultimate power over Hyde -> referring to Hyde in the third person - separation from evil -> Stevenson’s view of duality and how good and evil must co-exist, one cannot exist without the other

Answer 40

“I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide”

Question 41

“younger”, “lighter”, “happier” - “something strange in my sensations […] incredibly sweet”

Answer 41

-> triplet of superlatives free Jekyll from “the bonds of obligation” - the argument that the Victorian social code is constraining would be shocking to the contemporary reader (first quote) -> sibilance describes the bliss felt by Jekyll to be free (second quote)

Question 42

-> triplet of superlatives free Jekyll from “the bonds of obligation” - the argument that the Victorian social code is constraining would be shocking to the contemporary reader (first quote) -> sibilance describes the bliss felt by Jekyll to be free (second quote)

Answer 42

“younger”, “lighter”, “happier” - “something strange in my sensations […] incredibly sweet”