Jekyll and Hyde: Knowledge organiser

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1. We meet Utterson and learn he walks each Sunday with his
cousin Enfield. On one of these walks, Enfield tells Utterson the Jekyll Hyde Utterson Lanyon
story of the door.
2. The story told by Enfield is that a little girl was trampled down. ‘well-made, smooth faced man of ‘so ugly that it brought out the ‘lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet ‘hearty, healthy, dapper, red-
Hyde trampled this girl without caring but was seen by Enfield fifty’ sweat on me like running’ somehow loveable.’ faced gentleman’
and forced to pay compensation to her family.
3. Utterson recognises the name Hyde and it concerns him as he ‘every mark of capacity and kindness’ ‘without bowls of mercy’ ‘wondering, almost with envy, at ‘sprang up from his chair and
knows that Jekyll has written a will leaving everything to Hyde the high pressure of spirits involved welcomed him with both
should he die. Utterson visits Lanyon, another friend to see if he in their misdeeds.’ hands’
knows anything about Hyde. He doesn’t as he has fallen out
with Jekyll over scientific differences.
4. Utterson has a nightmare and when he wakes up he decided to ‘expense and strain of gaiety’ ‘snarled aloud in a savage laugh’ ‘his affections, like ivy, were the ‘unscientific balderdash…would
go and meet Hyde. He waits by the door Hyde uses and ‘carried it off gaily’ growth of time, they implied no have estranged Damon and
eventually meets Hyde. After meeting Hyde, Utterson visits aptness in the object.’ Pythias’
Jekyll but he is not in.
5. Later, Utterson goes for dinner at Jekyll’s. They discuss Hyde ‘laden with chemical apparatus, the ‘shrank back with a hissing intake ‘grunted in acknowledgement of ‘hidebound pedant’
and Jekyll tells Utterson not to worry. floor strewn with crates and littered of breath’ the address’
with packing straw’
6. We then learn that Carew is murdered by Hyde in a violent way ‘like some disconsolate prisoner’ ‘flush of anger’ Stringent obligations; and the ‘death-warrant written legibly
for no reason. When the body is found, there is a letter for ‘broke out in a great flame or packet slept in …private safe’ upon his face’
Utterson but no identification. The police ask Utterson to anger’
identify the murdered and take them to Hyde’s house as he has
his address. Hyde is gone but he left the murder weapon
behind.
7. Utterson visits Jekyll who is ill. He says he will have nothing ‘the smile was struck from his face’ ‘cry out like a rat’ ‘”I would say nothing of this. If your ‘physical decay…deep-seated
more to do with Hyde but he gives Utterson a letter that was master has fled or is dead, we may terror of the mind’
supposedly written by him. Utterson’s assistant Guest, says his at least save his credit.”’
handwriting is just like Jekyll’s!
8. Things go back to normal for a little while but then Jekyll ‘weeping like a woman or a lost soul’ ‘like a monkey’ ‘My like is shaken to the
isolated himself and won’t let Utterson in. He visits Lanyon who roots…deadliest terror sits by
is very ill. Lanyon later dies and sends Utterson a letter not to me at all hours’
be opened until Jekyll dies or disappears.
9. On another Sunday walk, Utterson and Lanyon see Jekyll at the ‘let it sleep’ ‘ private matter’
window. He suddenly looks strange and closes the window. It
scared the two men watching.
10. Poole, Jekyll’s servant, comes to get Utterson as he things Hyde ‘shipwreck of my reason’
has killed Jekyll. Utterson and Poole break the door down and
find the dead body of Hyde but cannot find Jekyll. There seems
no way for him to have left as the doors were rusted shut and
the key broken. There are letters written by Jekyll.
11. Utterson reads all his letters. One is from Lanyon and it explains ‘under the seal of our profession’
that Jekyll asked him to help to collect items and let Hyde into
his home. Lanyon did this and watched Hyde make a potion and
transform into Hyde. They are the same person! The second
letter is Jekyll’s explaining that he created a potion to separate
the bad side into the form of Hyde. He admits, he lost control
and soon needed the potion to become Jekyll again!
Key context: Key quotations: themes Key words:
Reputation was important to Duality Evil and sin Science vs Religion Mystery Duality
Victorian gentlemen.
Darwin’s theory of evolution. ‘the street shone out in ‘trampled calmly’ Your sight shall be blasted ‘neither bell not knocker’ Repression
contrast to its dingy by a prodigy to stagger the
neighbourhood, like a fire unbelief of Satan’
in a forest’
Freud’s theory-ID, ego, super-ego. ‘with an air of invitation, ‘Sawbones turned sick and ‘like a man restored from ‘besieged by questions’ Reputation
like rows of smiling white with a desire to kill death-there stood Henry
saleswomen’ him’ Jekyll’
Victorians feared regression. ‘which wore a great air of ‘like some damned ‘agonised womb of ‘engaged, or rather enslaved’ Façade
wealth and comfort, juggernaut’ consciousness, these polar
though it was now plunged twins should be
into darkness’ continually struggling’
Science was feared. Medical ‘menace in the flickering of ‘Satan’s signature upon a ‘I risked death…any ‘labyrinths of lamplighted city’ Devolving
doctors were respected but other the firelight on the face’ drug…utterly blot out that
branches of science were feared. polished cabinets’ immaterial tabernacle’
William Brodie made cabinets and ‘once crowded with eager ‘clubbed him to the earth’ ‘racking pangs succeeded: ‘If he be Mr. Hyde…I shall be Evolution
kept copies to the mechanism so students and now lying a grinding in the bones, Mr. Seek.’
could break in secretly. gaunt and silent’ deadly nausea that cannot
be exceeded at the hour
of birth or death’
Nurse Cunningham and his ‘hailing down a storm of ‘sold a slave to my original ‘the quietest room in
parents, raised Stevenson to fear blows’ sin’ London…but for the glazed
hell and strive for perfection. presses full of chemicals’
Despite his upbringing, Stevenson ‘bones were audibly
was wild at university. shattered’
‘mournful reinvasion of
darkness…like some city in a
nightmare’
‘My devil had long been
caged and he came out
roaring’
‘I mauled the unresisting
body, tasting delight in
every blow’