GCSE English Literature Revision
Paper One:
Section A: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Characters:
Dr Henry Jekyll:
C1: ‘the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too’ - saying verb popular + well liked AO3 Vict. gentleman
C2: ‘he was wild when he was young’ - adj. AO3 repressed Vict. gentleman
C3: ‘all intelligent, reputable men’ - adj. AO3 class + Vict. gentlemen
‘a large, well-made, smooth faced man of fifty’ - AO3 shocked Vict. gentleman
‘but every mark of capacity and kindness’ - met. personality
‘the large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness
about his eyes’ - adj. noun AO3 duality + darkness
‘the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde’ - relationship with Mr Hyde certainty
C4: none
C5: ‘his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical’ - science suggestive
‘shuddered […] with cold hands and a changed voice’ - adj. verb stark contrast + effect of Hyde
‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again’ - repet. religious curse + power shifts
‘his friend’s feverish manner’ - allit. friendship illness
‘seized with a qualm of faintness’ - adj. uneasiness + illness
‘O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!’ - exclaim. religious curse
‘{Jekyll + Hyde’s handwriting} a rather singular resemblance’ - similarities
C6: ‘when Utterson was liked, he was liked well’ - adj. repet. friendship
‘the dry lawyer’ - adj. dull + boring
‘his unobtrusive company [...] in the man’s rich solitude’ - adj. silent friendship
Mr Edward Hyde:
C1: ‘a little man stumping along eastwards’ - adj. verb. description
‘trampled calmly over the child’s body’ - oxy. AO3 shocked Vict. reader
‘wasn’t like a man […] like some damned juggernaut’ - sim. not even human AO3 Darwin dehumanising, adj.
religious curse,
noun indestructible force AO3 monstrous Gothic trope Enfield
tinged
with admiration
‘kind of a black sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like Satan’ - sim. adj. religious imagery
evil
‘not easy to describe […] something displeasing, down-right detestable’ - allit. repet. repulsive +
mysterious AO3
Lombroso’s Criminal Man typical
C2: ‘{of Dr Jekyll} friend and benefactor’ - mysterious + intriguing context
‘definite presentment of a fiend’ - noun religious imagery
‘a man who was without bowels of mercy’ - met. AO3 Freud’s Id
‘an odd light footstep [...] small and very plainly dressed’ - adj. creepy description
‘shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath’ - verb animalistic AO3 shocked Vict. reader
‘but still without looking up’ - hidden AO3 secrets Gothic trope
‘snarled aloud into a savage laugh’ - verb adj. animalistic AO3 Darwin de-evolving
‘pale and dwarfish […] displeasing smile’ - description AO3 Lombroso’s Criminal Man typical
‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’ - adj. AO3 duality Gothic trope
‘something troglodytic’ - adj. AO3 Darwin de-evolving, cave-man like + liver in slums
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’ - met. religious imagery
‘Mr Hyde has a key’ - simple sentence AO3 duality Gothic trope
‘must have secrets of his own, black secrets by the look of him’ - adj. repet. colour imagery met. AO3
secrets Gothic trope + Lombroso’s Criminal Man by looks only
‘creature stealing like a thief’ - noun sim. AO3 Lombroso’s Criminal Man crook
C3: none
C4: ‘very small gentleman, to whom at first she paid less attention’ - adj. unnoticeable + more of a threat
‘broke out in a great flame of anger’ - met. repet. fire + emotion imagery destroys everything
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