The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (3) - the language of evil...

This is the last post in the recent series on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a common GCSE literature text which as an English tutor I am often asked to teach.

You can read the first two posts here (1) and here (2).

All three posts have explored quotations in the important final chapter of the book.  This post looks at quotations which are linked by language associated with evil.

Dr. Jekyll writes that "My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring" and that "the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged."

A good response to these quotations would link together the language associated with evil, and would go something like this:

'The references that Dr. Jekyll makes to "my devil" and "the spirit of hell" use language associated with evil, and emphasise the moral depravity that has been set free by his experiments which led to Mr. Hyde's terrible crimes.'