Summary Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Grade 9 Essay Exemplar GCSE English Literature
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Read the following extract from Chapter 1 and then answer the question that follows.
In this extract Mr Enfield is telling Mr Utterson about an incident he witnessed which
ended with a visit to a house on the street they are walking.
All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward
at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as
hard as she was able down a cross-street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another
naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for
the man trampled calmly over the, child's body and left her screaming on the
ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn't like a man;
it was like some damned Juggernaut. I gave a view halloa, took to my heels,
collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite
a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no
resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me
like running. The people who had turned out were the girl's own family; and
pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent, put in his appearance.
Well, the child was not much the worse, more frightened, according to the
Sawbones; and there you might have supposed would be an end to it. But there
was one curious circumstance. I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first
sight. So had the child's family, which was only natural. But the doctor's case was
what struck me. He was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary, of no particular age
and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as a
bagpipe. Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my
prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him. I
knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being
out of the question, we did the next best. We told the man we could and would
make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of
London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he
should lose them. And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were
keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies. I
never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle,
with a kind of black, sneering coolness - frightened too, I could see that -but
carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.
Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Hyde as a terrifying character?
Write about:
• how Stevenson presents Mr Hyde in this extract
• how Stevenson presents Mr Hyde in the novel as a whole.
In this extract, Stevenson employs a recount, by Enfield, of Mr Hyde trampling over a young,
innocent girl to establish Hyde as a terrifying character. One way in which Stevenson
presents Hyde as terrifying character is by describing the calmness in which he carried out
his cruel act. He was unmoved by his own wickedness. Stevenson also employs a morbid
description of Mr Hyde’s appearance to present him as a terrifying character. Finally,
Stevenson presents Hyde as a terrifying character by depicting how he ultimately overbears
Dr Jekyll’s will and destroys him.
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