Consciousness (noun) Being awake and aware of one’s surroundings or your perception of something. Debased (adjective) Reduced in quality or value. Degenerate (noun) An immoral or corrupt person. (verb) Deteriorate mentally or physically. Depraved (adjective) Morally corrupt. Wicked. Duality (noun) An example of a contrast between aspects of something (ie, man is both good and evil) Ethics (noun) Moral rules which affect a person’s behaviour. Eugenics (noun) The science of improving a population by controlled breeding. Feral (adjective) Totally wild, like an animal. Metamorphosis (noun) A change from one living state to another. Perversion (noun) The corruption or ruin of something’s original state. Professional (noun) A person doing a job which requires a qualification. Respectability (noun) Being accepted and valued within your field (ie, doctors being respected).
TEN VOCABULARY QUESTIONS Which adjective means ‘horrifyingly bad’? Feral. Abhorrent. Savage. Depraved. Which noun is the part of the mind you’re unaware of, but which influences your actions? Subconscious. Supernatural. Consciousness. Ethics. Which noun is a change back to the way your ancestors used to be (ie, becoming like a caveman)? Duality. Repression. Aberration. Atavism. Which adjective means ‘morally corrupt or wicked’? Feral. Abhorrent. Unorthodox. Depraved. Which adjective describes something which goes against what is normal or expected? Depraved. Unorthodox. Abhorrent. Savage. Which adjective describes something which is wild and animalistic? Unorthodox. Feral. Abhorrent. Savage.
How is Hyde presented in this extract? Sample Answer How does the writer achieve it? Identify a technique/ interesting use of language Use a quote Stevenson describes Hyde trampling “calmly over the child’s body.” This seems to be a contradiction: trampling is an angry, action and it should not be possible to do it calmly. Perhaps Stevenson is hinting that Hyde has a contradictory nature early on, foreshadowing the events to come. It’s a very emotive thing to happen. A young child is usually What is the writer’s intention? Link to purpose and audience Writer’s message Writers’ attitude control
in Victorian society, who were likely to see good and bad as opposites, not two parts of one person. Does it link to Stevenson’s own life? Read the sample paragraph provided. Tick the bullet-points which have been achieved and draw arrows to where this happened (using different colours will make it easier to spot). Go back to the paragraph yesterday. Choose a bullet-point you didn’t include. Use a purple pen to add this to your work. Chapter Three: Consolidation You will need to refer to the full chapter! Analysis How does Stevenson present Jekyll in this chapter? How does he create a sense of mystery around the character? Evaluation How successful is Stevenson in creating a sense of mystery in this chapter? Creative Response Write a story or a poem about a friend who is a good person but befriends a bully, who is a bad influence. Call the story or poem ‘Bad Influence’. Write Utterson’s diary for this chapter. Test your knowledge so far… Chapter One: The Story of the Door Which terrible act does Hyde commit at the start of the novel? He breaks into Jekyll’s lab. He forges Jekyll’s will. He murders Danvers Carew. He tramples a young girl. How does compensate for his crime? He begs for forgiveness. He offers to pray for her. He pays her compensation. He doesn’t even try to. Where does Hyde disappear to? Nobody sees wear he disappears to. The dark and the fog help him escape. He disappears down a dark alleyway. Through a door which leads to Jekyll’s laboratory. Chapter Two: Search for Hyde What does Jekyll’s will say? Which noun is the part of the mind you’re unaware of, but which influences your actions? Subconscious. Ethics. Supernatural. Consciousness. What name is given to two opposites which cannot exist without each other? Aberration. Atavism. Duality. Repression. Where was Robert Louis Stevenson drawn in his childhood? The light, spacious streets of Edinburgh’s new town. The light, spacious streets of London’s new town. The dark, gloomy streets of Edinburgh’s old town. The dark, gloomy streets of London’s old town.
Using words like repress, subconscious and conscience would be particularly impressive. How does the writer achieve it? Identify a technique/interesting use of language Use a quote Why is it effective? Link to the actual words used What does it make you feel/do? What are the connotations? Does it have an emotional impact? Context Does it link to Victorian society, values or beliefs? Does it link to Stevenson’s own life? Lit AO1: Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations. Lit AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts, maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response. Lit AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate. Lit AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written. What effect is Mr Hyde having on Dr Jekyll?
The change in Jekyll's expression is so sudden and horrible it 'froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below', and they depart in silence. What was Darwin’s theory? Intelligent design. Humans evolved from monkeys. Creationism. Evolution by natural selection. How did Darwin’s theory affect Victorian people? Many people abandoned Christianity. They stopped going to church. It confirmed what they had always suspected. It challenged their existing beliefs. Chapter Seven: Incident at the Window You will need to refer to the full chapter! Summary: fill in the gaps! Utterson and Enfield pass by the door where Enfield saw Hyde __________ after he trampled the girl. Enfield has now worked out that it is the door to the laboratory that connects to __________ house. Enfield says that they will never __________ Hyde again. They look up and see Jekyll at the window looking very __________. They ask him to come out for a __________ with them but he says he can’t. Then a look of __________ seizes him and he disappears. The two men walk on in __________. Comprehension: answer in full sentences. What does Enfield discover about Hyde’s rooms that he didn’t know? Why do you think Utterson hadn’t already told him this information? What are Jekyll’s mood and emotions in this chapter? In this extract, Utterson and Enfield are disturbed by a terrified look on Jekyll’s face... [Utterson sees Jekyll at his window]. "What! Jekyll!" he cried. "I trust you are better." "I am very low, Utterson," replied the doctor, drearily, "very low. It will not last long, thank God." "You stay too much indoors," said the lawyer. "You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr. Jekyll.) Come, now; get your hat and take a quick turn with us."
"You are very good," sighed the other. "I should like to very much; but no, no, no, it is quite impossible; I dare not. But indeed, Utterson, I am very glad to see you; this is really a great pleasure; I would ask you and Mr. Enfield up, but the place is really not fit." "Why then," said the lawyer, good-naturedly, "the best thing we can do is to stay down here and speak with you from where we are." "That is just what I was about to venture to propose," returned the doctor with a smile. 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. They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word. In silence, too, they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion. They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes. "God forgive us, God forgive us," said Mr. Utterson. But Mr. Enfield only nodded his head very seriously and walked on once more in silence. Discuss with a partner: how does Stevenson create a sense of horror here? Key Quotation Key Quotation Key Quotation Key Quotation Killer Quotation Chapter Seven: Incident at the Window You will need to refer to the full chapter! Analysis How does Stevenson use description and dialogue to create a sense of drama and impending doom in this chapter? Evaluation How successful is this chapter in provoking the reader’s curiosity?