religion & sin - theme

• what had strong influence over victorian england in many aspects?

  christianity
• who reads "dry divinities" every night before bed? what does this suggest?

  uetterson. religion had permeated the lives of the characters and religion was conventional in victorian society
• what does hyde do to jekylls bible?

  he blasphemes it
• what does lanyon think about science and god?

  they should be seperate
• what does utterson represent?

  evangelicalism + the ideals of focusing on your work and not on your social life
• what do dr jekyll and mr hyde symbolise?

  good and evil, angel and devil
• what does the internal struggle between two conflicting forces allude to? (refer to)

  the biblical idea of eternal struggle of the good and evil within human beings
• what does jekyll confess in the last chapter that again refers to the idea of ingrained evil within us?

  "original evil"
• what does jekyll think of sin as?

  "burden of his life"
• why does jekyll create hyde?

  to attempt to rid himself of this "extraneous evil" that exists within him
• why does jekyll attempt of getting rid of the evil in him fail?

  becuase he is still sinning, just in secret and is the "secret sinner" and hyde is the "spirit of hell"