Violence

Question 1

Violence is shown through…

Answer 1

• Hyde’s barbaric acts
• The description of the setting reflects how out of place Hyde is in society
• Violence as a symbol of moral decay

Question 2

‘The man trampled calmly over the child’s body’

Answer 2

• Juxtaposition
• establishes the brutality of Hyde
• adverb ‘calmly’ suggests a disregard for human life
• Horrifying image

Question 3

‘Ape-like fury he was trampling his victim’

Answer 3

• Charles Darwin theory of evolution
• Hyde is the less evolved side to Jekyll
• compares Hyde to animal
• unrestrained nature

Question 4

‘broke out in a great flame of anger’

Answer 4

• metaphor
• ‘fire’ = intense and hellish
• espolisive nature
• repressed emotions are freed in the form of violemce

Question 5

‘A certain sinister block of building’

Answer 5

• out of place in society like hyde
• reflects how hyde embodies in a darken hidden side
• sense of isolation and solidarity

Question 6

‘My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’

Answer 6

• Jekyll represses his darker urges
• Hyde is violent and threatening
• ‘roaring’ - uncontrallable and animilastic power
• ‘devil’ is sinful

Question 7

Hyde’s victims

Answer 7

young girl = innocent
old man = respect

vulnerable and helpless victims

instensifies readers sympathy

Question 8

Stevensons intentions through the theme of violence

Answer 8

• exposes primal instincts
• highlights the consequences of represion and the pressures of Victorian Society
• warning about duality
• denial of darker self leads to uncontrollable outbreaks of violence