Jekyll and Hyde

Question 1

What is a simile for duality in the text? (setting)

Answer 1

“like a fire in a forest”

Question 2

Disruption of nature

Answer 2

“the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing”

Question 3

Mr Enfield is hiding something

Answer 3

“I was coming home…about three o’clock of a black winter morning”

Question 4

Hyde is evil, physiognomy

Answer 4

“Satan’s signature”

Question 5

Blackmail?

Answer 5

“I am painfully situated”, “cannot be mended by talking”,

Question 6

Everyone sins secretly?

Answer 6

Jekyll once again becomes an ‘ordinary secret sinner’ after Carew’s murder

Question 8

Hyde’s house description

Answer 8

“blind forehead of discoloured wall”, “no windows”

Question 9

Enfield’s description of Hyde

Answer 9

“He gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point”

Question 10

Hyde’s door

Answer 10

“The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained”

Question 11

Jekyll’s house

Answer 11

“a great air of wealth and comfort”

Question 12

The girl’s family (women) simile

Answer 12

“as wild as harpies”

Question 13

Trampling girl quote

Answer 13

“trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming”

Question 14

Example of Utterson not giving into his curiosity

Answer 14

“the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask”

Question 15

What sound is associated with London?

Answer 15

“low growl of London”

Question 16

What does ‘rumour of approach’ suggest?

Answer 16

“rumour of approach”

Question 17

How is Hyde’s laughter described?

Answer 17

“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

Question 18

What is the physical description of Hyde?

Answer 18

“pale and dwarfish”

Question 19

Hyde’s oxymoronic traits

Answer 19

“murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”

Question 20

What marks Hyde as evil?

Answer 20

“Satan’s signature”

Question 21

Hyde’s impact on others

Answer 21

“the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory”

Question 22

How is Hyde’s nature described?

Answer 22

“Something troglodytic, shall we say?”

Question 23

What does the text suggest about Hyde’s soul?

Answer 23

“Or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent”

Question 24

Mr Hyde violently does what to Carew?

Answer 24

“Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth”

Question 25

How is Hyde's fury described?

Answer 25

"And next moment, with ape-like fury"

Question 26

What imagery is used to describe the atmosphere? (Carew murder case)

Answer 26

"A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging"

Question 27

How is the city depicted?

Answer 27

"city in a nightmare"

Question 28

Thoughts of Utterson's mind were of the ...?

Answer 28

"gloomiest dye"

Question 29

What natural element is mentioned a lot?

Answer 29

"fog"

Question 30

What effect does Hyde have on the mind?

Answer 30

"deep-seated terror of the mind"

Question 31

How is the moon described? (supernatural feeling with poetic imagery)

Answer 31

"a pale moon lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her"

Question 32

What is the texture of the sky described as? (poetic)

Answer 32

"the most diaphanous and lawny texture"

Question 33

Mental feelings causes physical pain

Answer 33

"crushing anticipation of calamity" "strangling anguish"

Question 34

Jekyll's withdrawal symptoms

Answer 34

"crying night and day"

Question 35

Hyde is dehumanised how?

Answer 35

"it" "creature"

Question 36

What is the Hyde's emotional state when he goes to see Lanyon?

Answer 36

"on fire with sombre excitement"

Question 37

What struggle is mentioned?

Answer 37

"wrestling against the approaches of hysteria"

Question 38

The painful transformation description

Answer 38

"he put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes"

Question 39

What realization does Jekyll come to?

Answer 39

"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man"

Question 40

What is described as a temptation?

Answer 40

"temptation of discovery"

Question 41

How is giving into Jekyll's desires described?

Answer 41

"very novelty, incredibly sweet"

Question 42

Giving into his desires tricolon (hedonism)

Answer 42

"I felt younger, lighter, happier in body"

Question 43

What is said about human beings?

Answer 43

"all human beings…are commingled out of good and evil"

Question 44

What simile describes his leap into freedom?

Answer 44

"like a schoolboy…spring headlong into the sea of liberty"

Question 45

What internal struggle is mentioned - withdrawal symptoms?

Answer 45

"tortured with throes and longings"

Question 46

Quotation for dangers of repression

Answer 46

"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring"

Question 47

How is Hyde's hand described?

Answer 47

“lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a smart growth of hair”

Question 48

What comparison is made about Hyde and his trampling?

Answer 48

“like some damned Juggernaut”

Question 49

What does Lanyon say about Jekyll's mental state?

Answer 49

"He began to go wrong, wrong in mind"

Question 50

What does he say about the matter - homosexuality?

Answer 50

"This is a private matter"

Question 51

Homosexuality between J and H?

Answer 51

"I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man"

Question 52

Conflict between science and religion

Answer 52

"Scientific heresies"

Question 53

What does he say about his discoveries?

Answer 53

"My discoveries were incomplete"

Question 54

What is the urgency for the drug -> addiction?

Answer 54

"The drug is wanted bitter bad"

Question 55

What does he ask about the drug?

Answer 55

"Have you got it? He cried. “Have you got it?”"

Question 56

Hyde violates Jekyll's moral and religious values

Answer 56

"ape-like tricks...crawling in my own hand blasphemies"

Question 57

Utterson's first description

Answer 57

"embarrassed in discourse…lean, long, dusty, dreary, an yet somehow loveable"

Question 58

Utterson's rigid routine - religion in his life

Answer 58

"some dry divinity…until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed"

Question 59

What happens to Dr. Jekyll's face?

Answer 59

"The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes"

Question 60

High standard in Victorian society - importance of reputation for Jekyll

Answer 60

"My imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures"

Question 61

What violent act is described? (girl)

Answer 61

"The man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming"

Question 62

Jekyll's first transition in Hyde

Answer 62

"I knew myself…to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil…delighted me like wine"

Question 63

What does Lanyon scream?

Answer 63

'O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again.

Question 64

What does Poole describe seeing?

Answer 64

"that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals…it went down my spine like ice…I give you my bible word it was Mr Hyde!"

Question 65

What is the description of the phial? (science - danger and fear)

Answer 65

"The phial…might have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent…and seemed to me to contain phosphorous and some volatile ether"

Question 66

What conclusion does Jekyll draw about man?

Answer 66

"whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two"