Passmores Academy Revision Guide: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Comprehensive fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering context, structure, characterisation, themes, and literary analysis for Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Stevenson's fundamentalist Christian nurse, who filled his childhood with vivid stories of hellfire and Judgment Day, was named Alison Cunningham, known affectionately as __________.

Cummy

Edinburgh craftsman William 'Deacon' Brodie led a double life as a respectable cabinet-maker by day and a thief by night until he was hanged in the year __________.

1788

In the 1820s in Edinburgh, the murderers Burke and Hare killed people to sell bodies to Edinburgh Medical College, where their primary customer was the respectable Dr. __________.

Knox

By shifting the typical remote countryside or medieval castle setting of Gothic literature into a modern city, Stevenson pioneered the genre known as the __________.

urban gothic

In "Story of the Door," Enfield tells Utterson that the young girl trampled by Edward Hyde was "maybe __________" years old.

eight or ten

Stevenson employs symbolic concrete nouns to capture London's nightmare quality, specifically its "darkness" and its "__________".

labyrinths

In Section 2, the high-profile victim murdered by Edward Hyde is Sir Danvers Carew, who served as a respectable __________.

MP

Dr Lanyon leaves behind a sealed letter for Utterson that carries strict instructions not to be opened until Henry Jekyll __________.

dies or disappears

Hyde's neglect of social respectability is symbolised by his doorway, which lacked a bell or knocker and was described as "blistered and __________".

distained

The word "distained" used to describe Hyde's door carries a double meaning, signifying both "discoloured" and "__________".

disliked by people

When Poole and Utterson break into Jekyll's cabinet in 'The Last Night', the locked door withstands four axe strikes and finally bursts inward on the __________ blow.

fifth

Utterson describes Hyde as "__________", an evolutionary adjective suggesting a primitive, uninhibited caveman.

troglodytic

Gabriel Utterson sums up his non-judgmental philosophy toward others' indiscretions by stating quaintly: "I incline to Cain's heresy: I let my brother go to the __________ in his own way."

devil

Lanyon breaks his professional relationship with Jekyll because he condemns Jekyll's unorthodox experiments as "unscientific __________".

balderdash

Dr Hastie Lanyon's first name reflects his rigid and traditional character, as "Hastie" means "son of the __________ man."

austere

Unlike the middle-class gentlemen who treat Hyde as an eccentric man, the butler Poole chillingly dehumanises him by referring to him as "__________".

it

Enfield shares his pragmatic rule about ignoring suspicious situations with Utterson: "the more it looks like __________, the less I ask."

Queer Street

In the United Kingdom, legislation allowing the prosecution of homosexuality was passed in the year __________, just one year prior to the publication of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

1885

Before he is murdered, Sir Danvers Carew approaches Hyde late at night and accosts him with "a very pretty manner of __________".

politeness

Due to the suspicious circumstances and financial payoff associated with Hyde's residence, Enfield refers to the building as "__________ House".

Black Mail

The morning after the murder of Carew, Stevenson uses pathetic fallacy to describe London under a heavy man-made smog: "A great __________ pall lowered over heaven".

chocolate-coloured

Explaining the sudden, uncontrollable violence of Carew's murder after two months of abstaining from the potion, Jekyll reflects: "My devil had been long caged, he came out __________."

roaring

In 1886, the psychiatrist __________ published Psychopathia Sexualis, pioneering the exploration of hidden and repressed sexual desires.

Krafft-Ebing

In The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Sigmund Freud termed dreams the "__________ to the unconscious".

royal road

In a psychoanalytic reading of the novella, Mr Hyde represents Sigmund Freud's concept of the __________, representing pure unchecked desire.

Id

In Utterson's nightmare of the nocturnal city streets, Hyde is depicted trampling the young child as an unstoppable "human __________".

Juggernaut

When Jekyll first looks in the mirror after transforming into Hyde, rather than feeling repugnance at his deformed image, he experiences a "__________".

leap of welcome

Stevenson's strict upbringing in Scottish __________ fostered his belief that the human flesh was inherently sinful and required continual mortification.

Calvinism