Jekyll and Hyde essay planning

Jekyll and Hyde essay preparation

• 1 - how Doctor Jekyll is presented
• 2 - How Hyde is presented
• 3 - duality
• 4- victorian gentlemen
• 5- science
• 6- settings to create mystery and fear
• 7-darwism

Dr Jekyll

• victim of society - He's a weak character and broke under the bullying and torment of society. He felt judged by society because of his scientific views and the cravings he has. The fact he created such a monster to deal with that pressure tells us how weak he is.
• " I concealed my pleasures " . "wrong in the mind" . "unscientific balderdash " .
• He's a hearty, warm gentleman who's socially at ease -
• " every mark of capacity and kindness " - " the doctor carried it off gaily " -
• Erratic - Dr'jekyll gets more and more erratic as the novel goes on due to the stress of concealing Mr. Hyde / link with weak and unstable
• "But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. " - " utters I swear to god "
• Good victorian gentlemen -
• "this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep." "the pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; "