DGGS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde
Revision and Activities Pack
,The Features of Gothic Literature
Gothic Feature Definition Example in J&H
The environment is closely linked human
Pathetic Fallacy emotions: storms are angry, fog hides secrets,
etc...
Any building which is ruined by time, damage,
Ruined or
lack of care.
grotesque
Ugly buildings full of dark corners, gargoyles
buildings
or mysterious rooms and spaces.
Religious ideas might include heaven/hell,
Religious Ideas
good/evil, etc.
Sensibility Characters wallowing in their own feelings.
(the cult of Exaggerated or heightened emotional states
emotion) or characters.
Excess and Extreme greed or wealth, over the top
Extremity behaviour or showing off.
The Vampires, monsters, ghosts, ghouls,
Supernatural hauntings, werewolves, etc…
Imagery Things rotting and breaking down. This might
of decay be people, places or objects.
Horror
Scary bits – for characters and readers.
and terror
Isolation and Characters living alone, stranded or separated
loneliness from their normal lives.
, Characters unsure if what they are seeing is
Blurring of real or imagined.
sanity/insanity Characters who might be going mad.
Does the audience even know?
More than one narrative voice. Action switch
Multiple
from character to character, or from form to
Narrators
form (i.e. diary entry to narration).
Crime,
Murder, theft, cruelty, law-breaking and
lawlessness
general bad behaviour.
and abuse
A character controlling other people or
Absolute
places, in total control.
power
Remember what absolute power does to
people?
Satanic: to do with the devil and hell.
The Satanic/
Arcane: secret, mysterious, understood by
Arcane
few people.
Relevant Vocabulary
Add a sentence related to Jekyll and Hyde to each box using the vocabulary given
Aberration Abhorrent Allegory
(noun) (adjective) (noun)
An unwelcome and unexpected Horrifyingly bad. A story which can be seen to have a
change from what is normal hidden meaning (which is often
about society)
Allusion Anxiety Atavism
(noun) (noun) (noun)
A hint at a bigger or hidden A feeling of worry, nervousness or A change back to the way your
meaning. unease. ancestors used to be.
(ie, becoming like a caveman)
Consciousness Debased Degenerate
(noun) (adjective) (noun)
Being awake and aware of one’s Reduced in quality or value. An immoral or corrupt person.
surroundings or your perception of (verb)
something. Deteriorate mentally or physically.
, Depraved Duality Ethics
(adjective) (noun) (noun)
Morally corrupt. Wicked. An example of a contrast between Moral rules which affect a person’s
aspects of something (i.e. man is behaviour.
both good and evil)
Eugenics Feral Metamorphosis
(noun) (adjective) (noun)
The science of improving a Totally wild, like an animal. A change from one living state to
population by controlled breeding. another.
Perversion Professional Respectability
(noun) (noun) (noun)
The corruption or ruin of A person doing a job which requires Being accepted and valued within
something’s original state. a qualification. your field
(ie, doctors being respected).
Restraint Savage Subconscious
(noun) (adjective) (noun)
Self control. Fierce, violent, uncontrolled. The part of the mind you’re
unaware of, but which influences
your actions).
Supernatural Unorthodox Victorian
(noun) (adjective) (adjective)
Something outside the laws of Goes against what is normal or Something which happened while
nature – like ghosts, vampires, etc. expected. Queen Victoria ruled.
English Language Linked Task – C19th Paper Imaginative Writing
Write the story of a terrible crime (it doesn’t have to be Victorian).
, Use as many of these new words as possible.
Highlight them once you have finished.
Lang AO5 communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively
Lang AO6/Lit AO4 accurate SPaG
TEN VOCABULARY QUESTIONS
Which adjective means ‘horrifyingly bad’? Which adjective means ‘morally corrupt or
1. Feral. wicked’?
2. Abhorrent. 1. Feral.
3. Savage. 2. Abhorrent.
4. Depraved. 3. Unorthodox.
4. Depraved.
Which noun is the part of the mind you’re Which adjective describes something which
unaware of, but which influences your actions? goes against what is normal or expected?
1. Subconscious. 1. Depraved.
2. Supernatural. 2. Unorthodox.
3. Consciousness. 3. Abhorrent.
4. Ethics. 4. Savage.
Which noun is a change back to the way your Which adjective describes something which is
ancestors used to be (ie, becoming like a wild and animalistic?
caveman)? 1. Unorthodox.
1. Duality. 2. Feral.
2. Repression. 3. Abhorrent.
3. Aberration. 4. Savage.
4. Atavism.
Which adjective means ‘fierce, violent, What name is given to two opposites which
uncontrolled’? cannot exist without each other?
1. Depraved. 1. Duality.
2. Feral. 2. Aberration.
3. Abhorrent. 3. Atavism.
4. Savage. 4. Repression.
A metamorphosis is… An aberration is…
1. A change from one state to another. 1. An unwelcome and unexpected change.
2. A moral rule that affects behaviour. 2. A story with a hidden meaning.
3. A hint at a hidden meaning. 3. A hint at a hidden meaning.
4. An unwelcome and unexpected change. 4. A moral rule that affects behaviour.
