science and nature

Question 1

Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew i nto the entry of the court.” (Chapter 2)

Answer 1

The very unnatural appearance and behaviour of Mr Hyde makes the very scientific Mr Utterson become very suspicious.

Question 2

“I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.” (Chapter 3)

Answer 2

Jekyll is disappointed that Lanyon takes a religious approach to his scientific studies, referring to them as ‘heresies’.

Question 3

“Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.” (Chapter 4)

Answer 3

Hyde’s unnatural appearance makes everyone suspicious of him instantly.

Question 4

“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!” (Chapter 9)

Answer 4

Lanyon describes Hyde’s transformation into Jekyll as ‘like a man restored from death’ – it is unnatural.

Question 5

“But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.” (Chapter 10)

Answer 5

Jekyll knew he was taking a risk experimenting on himself, but his desire for discovery overtook any of his worries.