Chapters 1 to 3 — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Chapters 1 to 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Story of the Door, Search for Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease: Enfield's story, the will, Utterson's meeting with Hyde, and Jekyll's reassurance.
What each chapter establishes about character and theme, with key quotations.
Key quotations: 'I incline to Cain's heresy', 'trampled calmly over the child's body', 'it was like some damned Juggernaut', 'a kind of black, sneering coolness', 'really like Satan', 'the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask', 'If he be Mr. Hyde', 'I shall be Mr. Seek', 'pale and dwarfish', 'Satan's signature upon a face', 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde'.
Setting: the door and its 'sinister block of building', and Jekyll's house as a front with a hidden back.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
