45 minutes; 1 question; 40 marks; 20% of GCSE

Dr Henry Jekyll

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How To Revise

1. Be realistic. There is a limit to how much you can remember. Be selective.
2. Read through your summaries of each part of the play and make a chronological list of significant moments, events, or encounters involving Dr Henry Jekyll.
3. Review the tables of quotations below. Make your own shorter list of quotations that exemplify the character arc you have just described. Make sure you draw inspiration from all the relevant chapters.
4. Make sure you can answer all the questions in the Check Your Knowledge section. Make a list of additional quotations that would make your answers convincing.
5. Create a “character arc” infographic or mind-map, similar to the examples at the bottom of this page. Augment each quotation with two or three adjectives that you could use when writing an essay. </aside>

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Check Your Knowledge

1. In your own words, describe Mr Utterson’s first interaction with Dr Jekyll.
2. In your own words, describe Mr Utterson’s subsequent key encounters with Dr Jekyll.
3. In your own words, describe the alarming changes Mr Utterson observes in Dr Jekyll as the novella progresses.
4. In your own words, describe how Dr Jekyll explains his actions in his final account. </aside>

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First Appearance

• Chapter 3; Part 1; Paragraphs 1-7

  A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed. This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times. Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well. Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety. To this rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire — a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness — you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm affection.

  "I have been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll," began the latter. "You know that will of yours?"

  A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off gaily. "My poor Utterson," said he, "you are unfortunate in such a client. I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies. Oh, I know he's a good fellow — you needn't frown — an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant. I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon."

  "You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.

  "My will? Yes, certainly, I know that," said the doctor, a trifle sharply. "You have told me so."

  "Well, I tell you so again," continued the lawyer. "I have been learning something of young Hyde."

  The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. "I do not care to hear more," said he. "This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop."

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Dr Henry Jekyll

Dr Henry Jekyll

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Mr Edward Hyde

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How To Revise

1. Be realistic. There is a limit to how much you can remember. Be selective.
2. Read through your summaries of each part of the play and make a chronological list of significant moments, events, or encounters involving Mr Edward Hyde.
3. Review the tables of quotations below. Make your own shorter list of quotations that exemplify the character arc you have just described. Make sure you draw inspiration from all the relevant chapters.
4. Make sure you can answer all the questions in the Check Your Knowledge section. Make a list of additional quotations that would make your answers convincing.
5. Create a “character arc” infographic or mind-map, similar to the examples at the bottom of this page. Augment each quotation with two or three adjectives that you could use when writing an essay. </aside>

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Check Your Knowledge

1. In your own words, describe Mr Hyde and the incident through which he is first introduced in the novella.
2. In your own words, describe what motivates Mr Hyde and explain how he differs from Dr Jekyll and other members of polite Victorian society.
3. Having read the whole novella, including Dr Jekyll’s final account in Chapter 10, describe in your own words Mr Hyde’s “journey”. What are the key events?
4. Other characters’ reactions to Mr Hyde are very revealing. How would you describe these? </aside>

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Mr Gabriel Utterson

Dr Hastie Lanyon

Mr Richard Enfield