Jekyll & Hyde

• Edward Hyde

  • Amalgamation of everything wrong with humanity
  • Satanic homunculus of Jekylls ID
  • Threatening & destructive force
  • Volatile,dangerous and satanic
  • Corporal manifestation of Jekylls deal for power
• Evil Synonyms

  • Immoral
  • Wicked
  • Depraved
  • Malevolent
  • Sinful
  • Degenerate
  • Nefarious
  • Corrupt
• Hyde Big Idea

  • Emotions: Sense of growing unease
  • Society: Unnatural - Judgemental/prejudicial
  • Science:Primitive side of man & dichotomy
  • Disgrace to society (God made everyone imago dei): Hyde is outside of this, he is ugly and therefore an imperfection
• Animalism

  • Gothic Trope:Otherworldly ,strange,unnatural:Creates fear and unease
  • Duality in society:Hypocrisy
  • Darwainism: Societal prejudice-isolation from appearance
  • Stevensons intentions: Challenge and warn about evolution and mans primitive desires
• Stevensons Intentions:Chapter 1

  Questions:Moral values in victorian society

  Challenge: That outward respectability equates to inner goodness

  Warnings: Warns of the dangers of suppressing ones darker impulses
• Stevensons intentions: Chapter 2

  Questions: Reliability of outward appearance

  Challenges: Idea that law and rationality can explain human behaviour

  Warnings: Dangers of curiosity and meddling with what lies underneath
• Mr Utterson Quotes

  -‘ inclined to help rather than to reprove ‘(tolerant)

  -‘ the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down going men ‘ (influential)

  -‘ Mr Utterson began to haunt the door ‘ (determined)

  -‘ Can he too be thinking of the will? ‘ (suspicious)

  -‘ It was the ignorance of Mr Hyde that swelled his indignation ‘ (Proud)

  -‘ If he shall be Mr Hyde I shall be Mr Seek ‘
• What does Utterson represent?

  • rationality and order
  • Victorian morality and respectability
  • Loyalty and friendship
  • The flawed observer
  • The everyman
  • Guardian of stability
• Mr Hyde

  -‘He broke out in a great flame of anger‘ (aggression)

  -‘Something displeasing , something downright detestable‘ (Deformity)

  -‘Bones were audibly shattered’(vicious)

  -’This too was myself , it seemed natural and human’ ( Part of man)

  -‘He trampled calmly over the childs body and left her screaming on the ground (Lacks conscience)

  -’Like some damned juggernaut’ (Machine like)
• What does Hyde represent?

  • Primitive side of mankind
  • Innate evil within
  • Dangers of repression
  • Duality of human nature
  • Corruption of the soul
  • Dangers of science
  • Fear of the unknown
• Dr Jekyll

  -‘a man of fifty…with every mark of capacity and kindness‘ (good natured)

  -‘feverish manner (manic)

  -‘The moment I choose I can be rid of Hyde’ (Naïve)

  -‘Mark my words he will never more be heard of’ (Deluded)

  -’This is a private matter and I beg of you let it sleep’ (secretive)

  -‘It was the horror of being hyde that racked me‘ (Guilt ridden)

  -‘A man is not truly one but truly two’ (Introspective)

  -‘Jekyll would suffer smashingly the fires of abstinence’ (addicted)

  -‘Clubbed him to the earth’ (Powerless)
• What does Jekyll represent?

  • Duality of human nature
  • Dangers of repression
  • Limits of science and ambition
  • Dangers of going against God
  • Fragility of goodness
  • Warning against living a double life
• 'The evil side was stronger than the good' - Jekyll
• 'A man may do what he cannot undo' - Jekyll
• 'I am not quite myself tonight' - Jekyll
• 'There are moments when even crime seems right' - Jekyll
• 'My own individuality is now complete' - Jekyll
• 'He had no heart' - Utterson
• What was lombrosos theorem


  He argues that people are born a criminal and people have biological defects that make them stand out from normal people and show them as a criminal by
• What was Sheldon’s theorem

  Jekyll is the ectomorph- thin, fragile and weak

  Hyde is the mesomorph- more likely to commit crimes