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

2. 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.

3. 1. Themes and context Context:
Key words:
Victorian gentlemen
reputation
profession
morality
privacy
overcrowded
pollution
Darwin
strict
Gothic
Industrial Revolution
respectable
detective
controversial
civilised
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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.

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

6. 2. Plot overview TASK: Put the chapter summaries into order
Give out sheet after this activity.

7. 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

8. 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]

9. 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

10. 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”

11. 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

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