Jekyll + Hyde - CHAPTER 1

Question 1

Duality between Utterson and Enfield:

Answer 1

• Utterson is “Austere”
  VIC GENT
• Enfield is a “well known man about town”
  NOT VIC GENT
• we begin to see duality from the very beginning of the novella

Question 2

The door is…

Answer 2

• “blistered” and “distained”
• personification
• secrecy and mystery
• stands out

Question 3

“I incline to….”

Answer 3

• “I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”
• Utterson
• Utterson will act in the opposite way with regard to Jekyll, showing great concern for his moral and physical downfall.

Question 4

How did Hyde trample over the girl?

Answer 4

• “trampled calmly”
• “left her screaming”
• gothic fiction
• immediate idea of insanity

Question 5

“it wasn’t like a….”

Answer 5

• “it wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut”
• Enfield describing Hyde
• gothic

Question 6

“so ugly..”

Answer 6

• “so ugly that it brought the sweat out on me like running”
• Enfield describing Hyde
• Gothic fiction
• Stevenson is depicting the physical reactions which Hyde brings out on a man
• establishes Hyde as the antithesis of Utterson
• Darwin’s theory of evolution

Question 7

What happens in Chapter 1?

Answer 7

• Enfield and Utterson are out on their walk
• Enfield tells Utterson what they have seen