E Jekyll & Hyde

K19 - Repression and Reputation (4)

• “Broke out of all bounds” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “The last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - C1, Describing Utterson

• “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” - C10, Jekyll regarding his first transformation

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “I incline to Cain’s heresy” - C1, Utterson speaking of his nature

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll describing Hyde’s violence

• “Why had he a mask upon his face?” - C8, Poole regarding the strange man in Jekyll’s house

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

K19 - Dual nature of man (4)

• “I never saw a man I so disliked, yet I scarce know why” - C1, Enfield regarding Hyde

• “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” - C10, Jekyll regarding his first transformation

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “Hardly human! Something troglodytic…” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh” - C2, Description of Hyde during Utterson’s encounter

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll describing Hyde’s violence

• “Man is not truly one, but truly two” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

K19 - Science and Religion (4)

• “Unscientific balderdash” - C2, Lanyon regarding Jekyll’s experiments

• “Satan’s signature upon a face” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “I incline to Cain’s heresy” - C1, Utterson speaking of his nature

• “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also” - C6, Jekyll describing his current state to Utterson

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” -C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

K19 - Secrecy (4)

• “Unscientific balderdash” - C2, Lanyon regarding Jekyll’s experiments

• “Broke out of all bounds” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why” - C1, Enfield regarding Hyde

• “Great chocolate covered pall” - C4, Describing the weather during the Carew murder

• “Hardly human! Something troglodytic…” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “Like a district of some city in a nightmare” - C4, Utterson describing the area Hyde lives in

• “Why had he a mask upon his face?” - C8, Poole regarding the strange man in Jekyll’s house

K19 - Good and Evil (4)

• “Trampled calmly… like some damned Juggernaut” - C1, Enfield describing Hyde’s violence

• “Broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the Earth… with ape-like fury” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “The last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - C1, Describing Utterson

• “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why” - C1, Enfield regarding Hyde

• “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” - C10, Jekyll regarding his first transformation

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “Hardly human! Something troglodytic…” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll describing Hyde’s violence

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” -C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

K19 - Violence against ‘innocent’ people (4)

• “Trampled calmly… like some damned Juggernaut” - C1, Enfield describing Hyde’s violence

• “Broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the Earth.. with ape-like fury” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “The other snarled into a savage laugh” - C2, Description of Hyde during Utterson’s encounter

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll describing Hyde’s violence

K19 - Gothic Archetypes (4)

• “Unscientific balderdash” - C2, Lanyon regarding Jekyll’s experiments

• “Satan’s signature upon a face” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “Great chocolate coloured pall” - C4, Describing the weather during the Carew murder

• “The other snarled into a savage laugh” - C2, Description of Hyde during Utterson’s encounter

• “Like some district of some city in a nightmare” - C4, Utterson describing the area Hyde lives in

K19 - Silence or the impact of events within (4)

• “Broke out of all bound and clubbed him to the Earth… with ape-like fury” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “My devil had long been caged, he cane out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “I incline the Cain’s heresy” - C1, Utterson regarding his nature

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll regarding Hyde’s violence

• “Why had he a mask upon his face?” - C8, Poole regarding the strange man in Jekyll’s house

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

K19 - Urban Terror

• “Trampled calmly over the child’s body” - C1, Enfield regarding Hyde’s violence

• “Broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the Earth… with ape-like fury” - C4, Describing Carew’s murder

• “Great chocolate coloured pall” - C4, Describing the weather during the Carew murder

• “Hardly human! Something troglodytic…” - C2, Utterson describing Hyde

• “Like a district of some city in a nightmare” - C4, Utterson describing the area Hyde lives in

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelation

K19 - Inner conflict (4)

• “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why” - C1, Enfield regarding Hyde

• “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” - C10, Jekyll regarding his first transformation

• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring” - C10, Jekyll regarding the Carew relapse

• “The other snarled into a savage laugh” - C2, Description of Hyde during Utterson’s encounter

• “Tasting delight from every blow” - C10, Jekyll regarding Hyde’s violence

• “Man is not truly one, but truly two” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

• “The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” - C3, Jekyll to Utterson at the dinner party

• “All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil” - C10, Jekyll regarding his revelations

Context (4)

• Criminalisation of Homosexuality - Labouchere Amendment

• Stevenson visited Opium dens and was prone to addiction, and was in literary circles that meant him rumoured to be gay

• Stevenson grew up and saw both sides of Edinburgh

• Deacon Brodie was a cabinet maker who robbed his clients and RLS was fascinated by

• Nietzsche's theory of Apollonian VS Dionysian is seen through Jekyll and Hyde

• Victorian gentlemen repressed sides of them that could expel them from society

• Darwin had recently published the theory of Evolution, challenging religion and creating fears of de-evolution

• Bible - Original sin and Revelation structure

• Physiognomy was the idea that the pleasance of your physical appearance reflected your inner values - also a concept discussed my Nietzsche 

• Christianity was prominent at the time so many would understand the references

• The Industrial revolution had led to more people coming into the city, but also more pollution, poverty and crime

• Dark setting and sinister plot are key aspects of a Gothic tale, except this one is in a populated city rather than the empty countryside like in Dracula and Frankenstein

Chapter 1 - Story of The Door

• Story of The Door

• We are introduced to Utterson, a lawyer who is "the last good influence in the lives of down going men"

• Utterson and Enfield are walking through a nice area of London, when they see a "sinister block" with "nothing but a door" and is described as "sordid"

• Enfield tells Utterson of how he saw a Mr Hyde "trample calmly" over a little girl "Like some damned Juggernaut"

Chapter 2

• Search for Mr Hyde

• Utterson reads Jekyll's will and it says "in case of Jekyll's disappearance or unexplained absence…Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes"

• He speaks to Lanyon about Hyde and Lanyon says he and Jekyll fell out over his "unscientific balderdash"

• Utterson's "imagination became engaged or rather, enslaved" by Hyde, with him even having a nightmare where he appears on every street

• Utterson meets the "pale and dwarfish" Hyde, whose "snarl became a savage laugh" and who "walked about with an air of defiance"

• The reader finds out the door from chapter 1 is the backdoor of Jekyll's house

Chapter 3

• Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease

• Jekyll "gave one of his pleasant dinners" with "some five or six old cronies", and is described as having "something of a slyish cast"

• Utterson asks about Hyde, and Jekyll "grew pale to the very lips"

• He says that his "position is a very strange - a very strange one" and that "the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde"

• He then "begs" of Utterson to "let it sleep" and makes him promise that he will help Hyde when he is no longer here, to which Utterson reluctantly agrees

Chapter 4

• The Carew Murder Case

• A maid romanticises about the moon and the city, before watch Hyde "club to the earth" with "ape-like fury" an elderly MP Danvers Carew, leaving half of his cane broken on the ground

• The police call Utterson to help them find him, and they drive over to "a dismal quarter of Soho"

• The pair find a apartment "furnished with luxury" and a "painting on the wall"

Chapter 5

• Incident of the Letter

• Utterson goes to visit Jekyll in his "dingy" laboratory and he is in a "feverish manner"

• Jekyll promises he is sure that Hyde is gone, but cannot say how he knows

• Utterson is given a letter from Hyde by Jekyll, which has no address and Pole says was never delivered

• He takes it to his friend Mr Guest, who tells him the signature on the letter was written by Jekyll, leading Utterson to believe Jekyll "forge[d] for a murderer"

Chapter 6

• Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

• Jekyll acts as though Hyde "never existed" and throws dinner parties with Utterson and Lanyon and acts like he did in the old days and is "at peace"

• After two months, he retreats from society completely without explanation

• Utterson meets Lanyon only to find him ill and experiencing a "deep-seated terror of the mind"

• Lanyon believes this shock will kill him, which it does

• Utterson writes to Jekyll asking why Lanyon is so negative about him

• Jekyll tells Utterson "You must suffer me to go my own dark way" and that "I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"

• Utterson out of honour refuses to open a letter that can't be opened until "the death or disappearance of Jekyll"

Chapter 7

• Incident at the Window

• Enfield and Utterson are out on a walk when they pass by Jekyll's window and find him there

• Part way through the conversation,  Jekyll suddenly has a look of "abject terror and despair" and that seeing it "froze the very blood"

• Jekyll retreats, and the two swear to never speak of it

Chapter 8

• The Last Night

  • Poole calls Utterson over to investigate something odd that has been happening

  • Utterson tells him to "be explicit" but Poole won't say anything

  • Instead, he admits how afraid he is and how much he needs his help, this makes Utterson feel "frightened" and "irritated"

  • They go back to Jekyll's and one of the maids is "hysterical" and Utterson finds this behaviour odd

  • The someone in Jekyll's cabinet has been making lists of chemicals he needs, and when emerging looking like he has a mask on his face

  • Utterson still believes Jekyll is just unwell, which considering tension building would have been obviously wrong to the reader

  • Poole and Utterson take a red hot poker and break down the door to find Hyde dead on the middle of the floor wearing Jekyll's clothes, with a "crushed phial"

  • Utterson then goes home to read both letters and "this mystery will now be explained"

Chapter 9

• Dr Lanyon's Narrative

• Lanyon is sent a letter from Jekyll asking him to force open one of the drawers in his cabinet which Lanyon can "make no guess" as to what they are

• He goes there, and Hyde arrives at midnight and Lanyon expresses a similar odd indescribable feeling toward him as the others do

• Lanyon's curiosity gets the better of him, and he watches as Hyde grotesquely transforms into Jekyll, saying that his "features seemed to melt"

• After this, Lanyon says his "life is shaken to the roots" as the very science he denied works and to such an evil extent

• This then leads to Lanyon's ill state and death earlier

Chapter 10 (1)

• Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

• Jekyll wanted to put the truth out himself and into his own words

• Whilst being a Victorian gentlemen, Jekyll describes how he seemed to "wear" his personality and how he is tempted by "pleasures" that he "concealed" to protect his reputation

• He does not see the desires themselves as awful, but rather held a standard of reputation high

• He then attempts to separate these sides in order to experience being immoral with no shame, saying it would be a "miracle" to make this "beloved daydream" come true

• He thinks it to be impossible, but wants it too desperately

• After experimenting, he uses "transcendental" science to make this discovery

Chapter 10 (2)

• As Hyde, he feels more younger and carefree but also wicked

• He claims that if the experiment was approached with the intentions to do good things, he could have been an "angel", but since this was approached with sinful motivations, he made a purely evil Hyde and a mixed Jekyll remained

• One morning, Jekyll wakes up as Hyde without having taken any drugs and Hyde seems to have grown taller, then decides to stop taking the potion, then can't resist and takes it and then murders Carew

• Jekyll declares he no longer wants Hyde anymore and wants to return "balance" to his soul

• Jekyll sees Hyde as the enemy more and more, with Hyde now playing tricks on Jekyll to punish his disobedience

• Jekyll then runs out of a vital ingredient for the potion and Hyde is about to take over and so he kills himself