Jekyll and Hyde Moment 2/ Chapter 2

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

Utterson had previously made his mission to search for Mr Hyde after having a nightmare about him. Later on, he saw Hyde, and immediately gained a dislike for him, and introduced himself. Hyde asked Utterson how he knew him. When Utterson told him that Jekyll was a mutual friend, Hyde grew angry and accused him of lying, then ‘disappeared into his house’

Question 2

Quotes

Answer 2

-“Face of a man who was without bowels of mercy….a spirit of enduring hatred”
-“At night under the face of the fogged city moon”
-“If he shall be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek”
-“The streets as clean as a ballroom floor”
- “The look at him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the viewer’s inclination.”
-“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the mouth”
-“The low growl of London”
-“The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic.”
-“With a sort of mixture of timidity and boldness”
-“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh.”

Question 3

Context

Answer 3

Darwin’s theory of evolution and how Hyde is essentially backwards and animalistic
Snake in story of Adam and Eve, Hyde’s temptation to sin inclination to do evil