Jekyll and Hyde (English)

Question 1

Name of Chapter 1

Answer 1

The Story of the Door

Question 2

Name of Chapter 2

Answer 2

Search for Hyde

Question 3

Name of Chapter 3

Answer 3

Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease

Question 4

Name of Chapter 4

Answer 4

The Carew Murder Case

Question 5

Name of Chapter 5

Answer 5

Incident of the Letter

Question 6

Name of Chapter 6

Answer 6

Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

Question 7

Name of Chapter 7

Answer 7

Incident at the Window

Question 8

Name of Chapter 8

Answer 8

The Last Night

Question 9

Name of Chapter 9

Answer 9

Dr Lanyon’s Narrative

Question 10

Name of Chapter 10

Answer 10

Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

Question 11

What happens in Chapter 1

Answer 11

Utterson and Endfield are on a walk when they come across a door. This door (We find out later that this door is Jekyll’s Laboratory) reminds Endfield of when Hyde tramples a girl .

Question 12

Quotations in Chapter 1

Answer 12

Mr Utterson was “austere with himself”
Soho’s lights shine “like a fire in a forest”
Hyde is “like some damned Juggernaut”
Hyde “trampled calmly over the child’s body”

Question 13

Language of Chapter 1

Answer 13

Hedonism: pleasure is the main aim in life.
Façade: a false appearance.

Question 14

What happens in Chapter 2

Answer 14

Utterson goes back to the door in Soho, where he meets Hyde. Utterson then goes to warn Jekyll. Jekyll isn’t in. Utterson is drawn to investigate the mystery of Jekyll and Hyde.

Question 15

Symbols in Chapter 2

Answer 15

The safe: Utterson’s subconscious mind where he hides unwanted thoughts.
Church bells: remind us of Utterson’s pious nature.
Jekyll’s front door: this should symbolise his respectability, but the description actually hints at a darker side to Jekyll’s character.

Question 16

Quotations in Chapter 2

Answer 16

“Such unscientific balderdash…would have estranged Damon and Pythias.”
6. “a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde”
7. Hyde “shrank back with a hissing intake of breath”
8. Hyde is “hardly human, something troglodytic”

Question 17

Vocabulary in Chapter 2

Answer 17

Bestial: acting like a violent, uncontrolled and immoral animal

Question 18

What happens in Chapter 3

Answer 18

Utterson goes to a dinner party at Jekyll’s house and tells him about his concerns. Jekyll laughs off his worries.

Question 19

Quotations in Chapter 3

Answer 19

“there came a blackness about his [Jekyll’s] eyes”
“The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”

Question 20

What happens in Chapter 4

Answer 20

A year later, Hyde murders an MP. Utterson recognises the murder weapon as Jekyll’s broken walking cane. At Hyde’s flat, the police find the other half of the cane.

Question 21

Symbolism in Chapter 3

Answer 21

The Broken Cane: Utterson gave the cane to Jekyll as a gift; it symbolises the breaking of friendship. Also the breaking of Jekyll’s façade of respectability.
Fog: blindness to truth; unstoppable spread of evil; naturalness of evil.

Question 22

Quotations in Chapter 3

Answer 22

A “great flame of anger”
“With ape-like fury he was trampling his victim underfoot”
“A great chocolate-covered pall lowered over heaven.”
London is “like some district of a city in a nightmare”.

Question 23

What happens in Chapter 5

Answer 23

Utterson visits Jekyll, who looks ill. Jekyll shows him a letter that says Hyde won’t be back. Utterson believes the letter has been forged by Jekyll to cover for Hyde

Question 24

Symbols in Chapter 5

Answer 24

The chaotic lab: symbolises how Jekyll’s focus is no longer on medical research focussed on helping others. Also shows the chaos caused by Hyde.

Question 25

Quotations in Chapter 5

Answer 25

Dr Jekyll looks “deathly sick”. “The fog slept on the wing above the drowned city.”

Question 26

What happens in Chapter 6

Answer 26

Jekyll is more sociable until a sudden depression; he isolates himself. Utterson visits Lanyon on his death-bed, who hints that he is ill because of Jekyll. Lanyon dies leaving a note for Utterson to open after Jekyll’s death or disappearance.

Question 27

Quotations in Chapter 6

Answer 27

Lanyon was affected by “some deep-seated terror of the mind” Jekyll: “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”

Question 28

What happens in Chapter 7

Answer 28

Plot and character development Utterson and Enfield pass Jekyll’s window, where they see him confined like a prison. Utterson calls out and Jekyll’s face as a look of ‘abject terror and despair’. Shocked, Utterson and Enfield leave.

Question 29

Symbols in Chapter 7

Answer 29

Twilight: the arrival of darkness and night indicates the arrival of evil. As night-fall is natural, Stevenson presents this as an inevitable process.

Question 30

Quotations in Chapter 7

Answer 30

Jekyll looked “like some disconsolate prisoner” Jekyll had “an expression of such abject terror and despair” Utterson and Enfield “walked on once more in silence.”

Question 31

What happens in Chapter 8

Answer 31

Poole visits Utterson to ask for help. Jekyll’s lab door is locked and the voice inside sounds like Hyde. Poole says Hyde has been asking for a chemical, but has rejected it each time as it is impure. They break down the door and find Hyde’s body: suicide. They find documents, among which is a will leaving everything to Utterson.

Question 32

Symbols in Chapter 8

Answer 32

Darkness: blindness to truth; immorality; evil. Letters: These give physical proof of irrational, supernatural occurrences that might otherwise be unbelievable.

Question 33

Quotations in Chapter 8

Answer 33

“A dismal screech, of mere animal terror, rang out from the cabinet”

Question 34

What happens in Chapter 9

Answer 34

Lanyon’s letter tells how he received a letter from Jekyll asking him to collect chemicals, a vial and notebook from Jekyll’s lab and give it to a man who would call at midnight. A grotesque man arrived and drank the potion which transformed him into Jekyll. The sight of this transformation caused Lanyon to fall ill and die.

Question 35

Symbols in Chapter 9

Answer 35

Jekyll’s clothes: Symbolise his upper-class position in society. When Hyde is wearing them he looks out of place; this indicates how he doesn’t fit in with the ideal of the Victorian gentleman.

Question 36

Quotations in Chapter 9

Answer 36

Dr Lanyon’s “life is shaken to its roots”

Question 37

What happens in Chapter 10

Answer 37

This chapter is Jekyll’s confession, written in the first person. He explains that he was trying to investigate the duality of human nature. When Jekyll discovered that he had a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side to his personality, he tried to separate the two and destroy ‘darker self’. But instead he unleashed this darker side, taking the potion to transform himself into Hyde. This allowed him to commit base acts without risk of detection. Then he could return home and transform back into Jekyll. Eventually he became addicted to being Hyde, who increasingly took over and destroyed him.

Question 38

Symbols in Chapter 10

Answer 38

The potion: The novel could be interpreted as an allegory for addiction to drugs. The potion represents Jekyll’s destruction. Regent’s Park: This is the public, daytime space where Jekyll transforms unexpectedly into Hyde. It symbolises how Jekyll completely lacks control of Hyde – or his base desires.

Question 39

Quotations in Chapter 10

Answer 39

“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” “I am doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.” “I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow.” “My devil had long been caged; he came out roaring.”

Question 40

Historical Context

Answer 40

There were strict morals and social conventions – shown by the stereotype of the Victorian gentleman. But in reality, some areas of Victorian London (such as Soho) were far from moral: they were hot-beds of prostitution, gambling, alcoholism and drug-taking. But Victorian gentlemen could only visit these locations under cover of darkness; during the day-time they were models of respectable behaviour.