Jekyll and Hyde ( Chapters

Jekyll and Hyde ( Chapters

1. Context

   • Published in 1886
     • Victorian England
     • First horror novel
       • Science
         • Research into germs,chemicals,electricity. Invention of cars,radio, theory of evolution changed how humans behave and view themselves
     • Robert Louis Stevenson
   • Victorian values
     • Social expectations
       • higher up in society= more "rules" to follow about how they should live
         • They should live respectably and discretly
         • Seemed to increase prejudice about people "below" them
     • Victorian Values
       • Ridgid code of conduct
       • Sexual restraint
       • Low tolerance on crime
       • Importance of appearance
     • Social Problems
       • industralisation
         • made some people rich but some very poor
       • Lack of education
       • Workhouses
         • Child labour
       • Drug abuse and disease
       • Crime and prostitution
       • Homelessness
   • Class
     • Clear class system
       • didn't come in contact with anybody in other classes
         • Marriage between classes was frowned upon
   • Physiognomy
     • Pseudoscience
       • Judge a persons character based on physical features

2. Chapter 1: Story of the door

   • Character: Utterson pages 1-2
     • 2 Sides of personality but seem balanced.
       • Good points
         • Austere (serious) with himself
         • Lovable
         • Reputable
         • Good influence
         • Modest
         • Tolerates others
         • Non judgemental
         • Loyal
       • Bad points
         • "Cold,scanty,dreary,dusty blunt emotionless
         • Miserable "Never lightened by a smile"
         • Keeps things to himself
         • boring "singuarly dull"
         • not sentimental
   • Setting: The door pages 2-3
     • Back entrance to Jekylls house
     • Quotes to how how it is made negative
       • "Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east
       • "Every feature marks of prolonged and sordid negligence
       • "Tramps slouched in the recess and struck matches on the panels"
       • "Certain sinister block of buildings"
       • "No-one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages
   • Character: Mr Hyde pages 3-6
     • Apperance and how he makes people feel
       • "Something wrong with his appearance,something displeasing,something downright detestable
         • Rule of 3
         • Apperance
       • "It wasn't like a man"
         • Apperance
       • "It was like some damned juggernaught"
         • apperance
       • "He gives a strong feeling of derformity"
         • Feeling
       • "I never saw a man, i so disliked"
         • Feeling

3. Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde

   • Character: Hyde
     • How is he presented
       • "Went strongly against the watchers inclination
       • "Hissing intake of breath"
         • Animalistic
       • "Snarled aloud into a savage laugh"
       • "Radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures its clay continent
         • Hyde is evil and this shapes his body
       • "ever I read Satan's signature upon a face on your new friend
   • Setting: Jekylls house page 12-13
     • "Square of ancient ,handsome houses"
       • ""ancient" may suggest family history
         • Aliteration make it stand out
     • "costly cabinets of oak"
     • "Wore a great air of wealth and comfort"
       • "wealth" and "comfort" suggest money and luxury.
         • If you had money you were a good person
     • "bright open fire"
       • Hyde is linked to cold things and secretively and jekyll is linked to warmth and honesty
   • Character: Jekyll page 15-17
     • Good gentle man
       • "every mark of capacity and kindness"
     • Hiding something
       • "You do not understand my position
     • Uncomfortable
       • "grew pale to the lips"
         • become incoherent when talking
       • "position is very strange- a very strange one"
     • Cares for Hyde
       • "but i do sincerely take a great,very great interest in that young man
       • "i only ask for justice"