Dr Jekyll's life
From birth, how was Dr Jekyll's social standing?
High, he inherited a large fortune early on in his life
Mr Richard Enfield
How does Dr Jekyll transform into Mr Hyde?
He has to drink a potion
"A grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horrer of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death" (p. 72)
The side-effects that come along with drinking the potion Dr Jekyll has created
"... it was two storys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence" (pp. 10-11)
Mr Hyde's house
Dr Jekyll believes that a man's soul is what?
Dual/consists of two
For how many years has Poole worked for Dr Jekyll?
20 years
What is the goal behind Dr Jekyll's science/experiments?
There are two goals (if only one is answered the point for the question still counts)
- To separate the two souls a person have
- To eradicate the "bad" part of the soul, so bad traits/negative feelings would disappear
"... compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke togheter in the glass..." (p. 72)
Dr Jekyll creating the potion
"...The tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola" (p. 34)
Dr Jekyll's laboratory
How does Dr Jekyll feel the first time he transforms into Mr Hyde (after the side-effetcs has subdued)?
He feels as if he is reborn
"There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet" (p. 72)
(Chapter 2) How does Mr Utterson go about in order to meet Mr Hyde for the first time?
Mr Utterson decides to visit the strange house every night in order to run into Mr Hyde
What are the side-effects when you drink the potion that Dr Jekyll created?
There are multiple side-effects (if only some/one is answered the points for the question still counts)
- Grinding in the bones
- Nausea
- A horror in the spirit
"Even a good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other" (p. 73)
Dr Jekyll seeing himself as Mr Hyde for the first time
"It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ball-room floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the shops were closes, the by streets was very solitary..." (p. 21)
The streets of London
How does Dr Jekyll react when he wakes up one morning and realizes that he has awakened as Mr Hyde, rather than as Dr Jekyll?
Terror.
"I was in the mere stupidety of wonder, before terror woke up in my breast" (p. 77)
What is Dr Lanyon's first name?
Hastie
The first time Dr Jekyll decides to test out his scientific theory, he hesitates because he fears he might die, yet he still ended up drinking the potion. What made him do it, despite his fears?
Dr Jekyll is a man of science; the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound overcame his fears
"... these incongruous faggots were thus bound togheter - that in the agonized womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continously struggeling" (p. 71)
The curse of mankind (according to Dr Jekyll)
"The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled togheter like a flock of sheep" (p. 49)
Dr Jekyll's house
What is Dr Jekyll's reason for giving his will to Mr Hyde?
So that if anything happens to him as Dr Jekyll, he would not suffer pecuniary loss
Who is the first person to discover the truth behind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's relation?
Dr Lanyon, as he witnesses Mr Hyde transform into Dr Jekyll
When Dr Jekyll transform into Mr Hyde, how does he become Dr Jekyll again?
He has to drink another one of his potions
"... was professional in shape and size; it was large, firm white and comely" (p. 77)
The hand of Dr Jekyll
The place where Dr lanyon was to bring the drawer (hint: p. 62)
His home in Cavendish Square