Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde - Themes

Science

Duality of Man

Reputation

Good vs Evil

Characters

Dr Jekyll

Mr Hyde

Dr Lanyon

Dr Jekyll

Mr Hyde

Events

Dr Jekyll

Utterson

Sir Danvers Carew

Events

Writers Intention

Writer Intention

Religion

Characters

Events

Writers Intention

Parallel to the theme of good and evil

People in upper class are stereotypically people with good morals

Those in lower class are seen as people with bad morals

By creating Mr Hyde, Stevenson's is demonstrating that not all upper class people follow the social protocol and visa versa

Member of the upper class

Mr Hyde

Member of the lower class

Demonstrates the diminishing power of religion in society at the time because of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Jekyll was an experimental scientist who played with the idea of being God by having the power to split humanity

Jekyll committed suicide proving that God did not take his life away and the science is stronger

People were nervous about their faith in religion at the time

Science provided answers for questions that couldn't be explained by religion

However many things about science was still unknown at the time so people were sceptical

Stevenson presents science as an opposition to religion

Science is more powerful than religion

An experimental scientist

Stevenson encourages and emphasis' that science has power over man kind through warning people

Some people had stiff upper lip

Some people were not all that met the eye

Duality of man demonstrates how there are different sides to humanity which is still relevant to this day

Physiognomy and wealth dictated how society judged others

Quotes

'If I'm the chief of sinners then I'm the chief of sufferers as well'

Externally Jekyll is a good person with a good reputation

Internally Hyde is a bad person with a bad reputation

Utterson

He is an embodiment of good

He has a slight bad attribute of curiosity which leads him down the rabbit hole of the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Hyde juxtaposes all that is good in society

a metaphor of society

The letter of explanation from Dr Jekyll in which he admits to each crime that he committed as himself and as Mr Hyde

Incident at the Window - displaying how Jekyll was good in one moment and evil in the next

Upper class do not partake in immoral acts

Through Hyde, Jekyll is able to do his immoral acts without ruining his reputation

'disconsolate prisoner'

'man is not truly one but truly two'

'ape like fury'

'like a man restored from death'

The potion that Jekyll makes

Contradicts his reputation from his experimentation

Looks like a lower class person

Incident at the Window - Utterson figures out that something is not well and Jekyll's reputation is in jeopardy

In his letter of confession about the duality of his life

'I concealed my pleasures'

'My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring'

The trampling of the girl by Hyde

The death of Sir Danvers Carew by Hyde

'the man trampled calmly over the childsbody'

'it wasn't like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut'

'unscientific balderdash'

The death of Lanyon

The death of Jekyll

'he gave an impression of deformity'

'snarled into a savage laugh'

he is conservative and inflexible

'hide-bound pedant'

'large handsome face'

'what he called my scientific heresies'

'the two hands are in many points identical : only differently sloped'

Hyde hanging into Jekyll infront of Lanyon

Jekyll's account of waking up as Hyde showing that Hyde is stronger than him

'it is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it'

'the middle of one of the three windows was halfway opened'

'God forgive us, God forgive us'

'O God , Utterson, what a lesson I have had'

'I thought I was beyond the reach of fate'

'God knows; I am careless'

'sold a slave to my original evil'

'tenfold more wicked'

'Alone in the ranks of mankind was pure evil'

'I have had a shock'

Hyde showing Lanyon his transformation back to Jekyll

practical and rational man

becomes ill from seeing Hydee turn into Jekyll which causes his death

contrasts to Jekyll

educated man

uneducated man

wealthy

has power through money and name

described as handsome so that he is a good person

a dark side to him that is expressed through Hyde

the dark side of Jekyll

can do immoral acts through Hyde

outlet of immoral acts

wealthy and respectable

doctor - highly esteemed job

sociable

beautiful and innocent

small, young and animalistic

amoral behavior

the death of Sir Danvers Carew -affect in society

no motive for violence

unrestrained by conscience

known as a respectable person by many people

Utterson

focuses on the rational not science

cold and dreary

lovable man

layer - trustworthy and rational

'if I ever read satans signature upon a face, it is in your new friend'

'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way'

Hyde

wicked and evil

described to have 'satans signature upon his face'

'I incline to Cain's heresy'

contrasts the religious persona of Jekyll

Incident at the window - asking for gods forgiveness

Utterson being non-judgemental

Victorian society suppressed their feelings and desires

society suppressed what was viewed to make them a bad person so they kept a stiff upper lip

evil = sin/hell

good = heaven