Answer the following questions using the web sites indicated as a source for your answers:

1.  Who was the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson's title character?
2.  Why was Stevenson able to use this man as a source for his literary effort?
3.  Why did Jekyll want to assume the identity of Hyde?
4.  How are Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield related to Hyde?
5.  Why do they agree to stop speaking about Hyde in Chapter 1?
6.  Give at least three other examples in the novel when characters refuse to give information.
7.  Why did Stevenson never describe Hyde in the novel, do you think?  To what extent does he
     describe him?  What is Hyde's demeanor?  How do people respond to him?
8.  Why did he never enumerate specifically Jekyll's "irrational excesses in his youth"?
9.  Make a chart listing Dr. Jekyll's experiments with becoming Hyde in the novel and his feelings
     regarding the transformations.  What were Dr. Jekyll's intentions when he began his experiment?
     What went wrong?  What was he seeking?
10. Why are each of Hyde's crimes important?
11. How do these crimes elicit Utterson's interest in the case?
12. How do these crimes affect Jekyll's attitude toward Hyde?
13. What is the final result of these crimes.
14. Who was more responsible, do you think, for Hyde's crimes, himself or Jekyll?  Why?
15. Who is the narrator of the novel?  Why does this person relate the story?
 
   
 

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