Jekyll and Hyde The whole text Revision session Jekyll and Hyde The whole text

What will we cover? Themes & context Plot overview Key character profiles Structural features Putting all this into your essay! KEY FOCUS: how good and evil is portrayed in the novel. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.

1. Themes and context Context: Key words: Victorian gentlemen reputation profession morality privacy overcrowded pollution Darwin strict Gothic Industrial Revolution respectable detective controversial civilised R_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D_ _ _ _ _ _ of h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Context: Who was the monarch when J&H was written? What was London like at the time? What did society think/feel/believe/say about science? What were people’s religious beliefs? What is the same/different now? What genres influenced the writing of J&H? Include: Gothic conventions, detective genre, science-fiction, urban setting. Features of a Gothic novel include: mysterious settings, disturbing secrets, dreams and visions, the supernatural, the double.

1. Themes and context NB Sherlock by Arthur Conan Doyle: first stories published 1887. Dracula by Bram Stoker published 1897. J&H published 1886. Frankenstein published 1818.

2. Plot overview TASK: Put the chapter summaries into order http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/prosejekyllhyde/jekyllplotact.shtml Give out sheet after this activity.

2. Plot overview Search for Mr Hyde Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon Story of the Door Search for Mr Hyde Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease The Carew Murder Case Incident of the Letter Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon Incident at the Window The Last Night Dr Lanyon’s Narrative Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

2. Plot overview Door Search Ease Dr Jekyll Murder Carew Letter Remarkable Dr Lanyon Window Night Narrative Dr Lanyon Full Statement of the Case Dr Jekyll TASK: Can you connect each of these words to a key theme, or make a link to context? [Discussion]

3. Key character profiles TASK: match the quote to the character. Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde Utterson Enfield Dr Lanyon Poole Sir Danvers Carew Guest maid

3. Key character profiles: quotes “seems hardly human” “an aged beautiful gentleman” “all men’s respect” “The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask” “the last good influence on down-going men” “like a monkey” “animal within” “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman” Extension: Jekyll and Hyde aren’t complete opposites: Jekyll isn’t completely good, and elements of Jekyll can be seen in Hyde: Jekyll has failed to distance himself completely from his dark side. “Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” “Jekyll became too fanciful for me” “an imprint of deformity and decay” “austere” “a tall, fine build”

4. Structural features Structure and narrative voice Key words: third-person tension intrigue linear structure final 2 chapters embedded narratives written documents letters statement fragmented incidents darkness fog isolation streets doors windows dialogue rational disturbed descriptive formal Structure and narrative voice Setting and symbolism Language and dialogue Who narrates the novel? How does it change? How and why does Stevenson use written documents as a structural device in the novel? In what ways is the setting of the novel symbolic? How does dialogue vary in the novel, and what does this show about the characters? Structure and narrative voice Setting & symbolism Extension: look at the extracts from Chapter 4 (the maid) and Chapter 9 (Dr Lanyon) Language & dialogue

5. Putting all this into your essay! Make connections: CONTEXT THEMES WHOLE NOVEL