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Jekyll and Hyde: Chapters 9 and 10

Jekyll and Hyde: Chapters 9 and 10. English 12 Mrs. Malaspino. Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon’s Narrative. With which of the following statements do you most fully agree? Why? (1 ) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one and the same person

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Jekyll and Hyde: Chapters 9 and 10

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  1. Jekyll and Hyde: Chapters 9 and 10 English 12 Mrs. Malaspino

  2. Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon’s Narrative • With which of the following statements do you most fully agree? Why? • (1) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one and the same person • (2) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two parts of one person, one good and the other evil; • (3) Mr. Hyde is the diminished evil part of Dr. Jekyll that resides in all of us.

  3. Discuss: • Why do you think Dr. Lanyon is too horrified to reveal everything that Dr Jekyll told him? • It is Hydewho offers Lanyon ‘a new province of knowledge’ not Jekyll. The entire person of Jekyll/Hyde would not taunt Lanyon, but the malicious and vindictive Hyde takes great pleasure from it. To what extent do you think a small part of Jekyll was angry with Lanyon for rejecting his new ideas?

  4. Take a stand! • Stevenson takes great pains to show that Mr Hyde is very deadly. • The hypocrisy of Victorian values is one of the novel’s main themes : On the outside, many noblemen seemed to be fine and upstanding citizens, inside they hide dark secrets. • Stevenson, using the dialogue of Jekyll, goes on to say that ‘all human beings … are commingled out of good and evil’ – Stevenson indicts all of society. • To what extent do you agree with the author?

  5. Chapter 10: Jekyll’s Full Statement • Early in his life, Jekyll understood and recognised a ‘profound duplicity of life’ and that he was ‘so profound a double dealer’. He also admitted the need to ‘hide’ that part of him away from others. How does this idea connect with Stevenson’s view of the nature of man?

  6. Chapter 10, continued For a few months, Jekyll tried to lead a normal life, but he did not seal up the entrance to his laboratory, nor did he get rid of Hyde’s clothes. To what extent do you think Jekyll WANTED to get rid of his evil side?

  7. Who is in control? Take a stand! • Hyde is trapped by his own evil ways (murder, etc.) and cannot leave the laboratory. He appears because, subconsciously, Jekyll wants him to appear. This is why, ultimately, Hyde has no control over Jekyll. • The final irony lies with Jekyll’s act of suicide, as although it is Jekyll who commits the act, when his body is dying, Hyde regains ascendancy so that the men find his body and not Jekyll’s. Could it be that the final triumph lies with Hyde? • What does this imply about Stevenson’s theme and overall view of the nature of man?

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