Detailed Grades 7-9 essay plans covering themes and characters within 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. These plans can be used as a standalone revision resource or alongside class notes to complete detailed, coherent essays.
Each plan includes: Thesis (Potential ideas or a short thes...
Duality of Man Them
Thesis – Stevenson explores the idea of a dual nature to a single person – Hyde is a manifestation of the e
personality within Jekyll, whilst Jekyll remains the reputable, moral character. Hyde weakens Jekyll: the desir
be free of Society’s rules and act on his desires becomes almost addictive, causing Hyde to overpower the do
Themes/Characters – Jekyll; Hyde; Repression; Society – Morality/Reputation
Jekyll Hyde
Appearance
• ‘A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something • ‘pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity w
of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and any nameable malformation’
kindness’ • ‘shrank back with a hissing intake of breath’
• ‘…grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness • ‘He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes
about his eyes’ doctor's bigness’
• ‘infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner’
Possessions
• ‘a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the kettle • ‘…these were furnished with luxury and good taste. A
singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set was filled with wine; the plate was of silver… a good p
forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid hung upon the walls, a gift … from Henry Jekyll, who was
out for tea’ of a connoisseur’
Acceptance Strength
• ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’ • ‘My devil has been caged, and came out roaring’
• ‘all human beings… are commingled out of good and evil’ • ‘I was slowly losing hold of my original and better se
• ‘…as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse
I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end’ • ‘That child of hell had nothing human; nothing lived in h
fear and hatred’
, Repression Them
Thesis – Explores the repressive nature of Victorian society and the importance of supressing forbidden des
thereby warning of the façade everyone presents in public to hide the truth, yet this cannot always rema
hidden; Jekyll must repress his desires as a reputable man and so suffers, as does Hyde who is repressed
society
as a member of the Underclass.
Themes/Characters – Jekyll; Hyde; Utterson; Danvers Carew; Society – Morality/Reputation; Secrecy
Jekyll Hyde Society – Morality
Desires Violence Utterson
• 'Hence it came about that I concealed • ‘And next moment, with ape-like fury, • ‘He was austere with himself; dra
my pleasures… I regarded and hid them he was trampling his victim underfoot when he was alone’
with an almost morbid sense of shame’ and hailing down a storm of blows’ • ‘A great curiosity came … [to] d
• ‘when a drunkard reasons with himself • ‘broke out in a great flame of anger’ once to the bottom of these mys
upon his vice, he is [not] once out of five but professional honour and faith
hundred times affected by the dangers’ dead friend were stringent obligat
Suffering Suffering Sir Danvers Carew
• ‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the • ‘To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a • ‘the older man bowed and accost
chief of sufferers also’ thousand interests and aspirations, and other with a very pretty mann
• ‘…yet it was by these that I was to become, at a blow and forever, politeness.’
punished. My devil had been long despised and friendless’
caged, he came out roaring’
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