Jekyll & Hyde revision

  1. trampling of the girl → Hyde (animalistic) → evolution

  2. Utterson meeting Hyde → evil → duality

  3. Utterson talking to Jekyll about Hyde → Jekyll (secrecy) → dangers of repression

  4. Carew Murder → Hyde (violence) → inner beast

  5. Utterson visits Hyde’s house in Soho → Hyde (evil) → duality

  6. Lanyon discovers the truth of Jekyll & Hyde and dies → Jekyll (transgressive science) → dangers of scientific progression

  7. Utterson & Enfield see Jekyll transform in the window → Jekyll (weak) → dangers of repression

  8. Utterson breaks down the door and finds Hyde dead → Jekyll (tragedy) → consequences of transgressive science

  9. Jekyll’s confession talks about the 1st transformation → Jekyll (freedom) → lack of freedom for gentlemen

  10. Jekyll’s confession talks about the progression of Hyde’s power → Hyde (evil) → inner beast within

good summary

(description of Lab + Jekyll’s change after Carew)

(Jekyll’s description of duality)

Jekyll’s confession

Jekyll

p1 = secrecy, Victorian Gentleman → secrecy/reputation

  • there came a blackness about his eye

  • grew pale to the very lips

  • quite fond of Hyde

p2 = change/contrast in appearance → consequences of science

  • looking deathly sick

  • once filled with eager students now gauntly silence

  • foggy

p3 = death → loss of control, dangers of repression

  • like some disconsolate prisoner

  • I bring that unhappy life of Henry Jekyll to an end

  • I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll and awoke as Edward Hyde

BP

  • dangers of transgressive science

  • duality of man → people’s capacity for evil/violence

  • dangers of repression for Victorian Gentlemen preserving their reputation

  • Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution