The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2) - animal imagery

This series is about the popular GCSE literature text The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  As an English tutor, it's a common text that students ask me to help them with.

The final chapter of the book is one the most important, and the first post in this series looked at the chapter's image of the "shipwreck" (you can read it here).

Stevenson uses references to apes in two phrases in Chapter 10 when referring to the "ape-like tricks" and "ape-like spite" of Mr. Hyde.  Although I chose an "ape-like" image to accompany this post, it's important to remember that this is imagery, and that Mr. Hyde does not resemble an ape in appearance!

The animal imagery implies that Mr. Hyde is sub-human.  What good human qualities do you think he lacks?  If you can answer that question then you will be able to write with a good level of insight about why Stevenson chooses to use at least two examples of animal imagery in this chapter...

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