How Stevenson presents Mr Hyde, and how the character develops across the text: violence, deformity, the animal and evil, and his growing power over Jekyll.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'trampled calmly over the child's body', 'it was like some damned Juggernaut', 'pale and dwarfish', 'Satan's signature upon a face', 'with ape-like fury', 'pure evil', 'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring'.
Context: Darwin, degeneration and the fear of the primitive, and how Hyde is never fully described.
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.
