Jekyll and Hyde Worksheet - GCSE - Beginner

Jekyll and Hyde worksheet for GCSE (Key Stage 4 / GCSE (Ages 14-16)). Beginner level english practice, aligned to the UK National Curriculum. Print-ready with answer key included.

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Jekyll and Hyde: Duality, Reputation and Victorian Science

GCSE English Literature | Key Stage 4 | Beginner

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Instructions: Work through the activities in order, using the quotation evidence and prompts to build your understanding of Stevenson’s novella. For written responses, explain the effect of the writer’s choices and link your ideas to the Victorian context where relevant.

Quotation Check: Duality

Read each quotation and identify the idea it most strongly suggests. Choose one option for each question. Think about the contrast between outward respectability and hidden behaviour.

1. “man is not truly one, but truly two” most directly presents the idea of:

2. “I concealed my pleasures” suggests that Jekyll:

3. “my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring” presents Hyde as:

4. “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” reveals Jekyll’s belief that he:

Quotation Analysis: Reputation

For each quotation, explain what it suggests about reputation or social judgement. Use the sentence starter if helpful: “Stevenson suggests that…”. Add a brief comment on a significant word or phrase.

1. “I am ashamed of my long tongue” — What does this suggest about Utterson’s attitude to gossip?

2. “the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask” — Explain how this presents Utterson’s response to private matters.

3. “a man’s good name is as good as his bones” — What does this imply about the importance of reputation?

4. “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” — What does this suggest about the limits of friendship and intervention?

Victorian Science and Context

Choose the most accurate answer. Consider how nineteenth-century developments and anxieties about science, religion and human nature shape the novella. The questions focus on context rather than asking you to memorise dates.

1. Which Victorian development is most closely connected to Jekyll’s experiment?

2. Why might Jekyll’s experiment have seemed disturbing to a Victorian reader?

3. Which idea is most closely linked to the novella’s concern with duality?

4. Which statement best describes Stevenson’s presentation of respectable Victorian society?

Build a Quotation Bank

Complete each quotation using the word bank. Use every word once. Then check that each completed quotation matches the novella. These brief quotations can support analysis of duality, concealment and control.

Word bank: two, pleasures, roaring, choose

1. “man is not truly one, but truly ___”

2. “I concealed my ___”

3. “he came out ___”

4. “the moment I ___”

Plan an AQA-Style Essay

Plan one response to the question below; do not write a full essay. Begin with a clear argument, select relevant evidence and explain how Stevenson’s choices shape meaning. Include a relevant contextual link to Victorian attitudes towards science, morality or reputation.

How does Stevenson present the conflict between public respectability and private desire in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? [6 marks]

Thesis:

Quotation 1 and what it suggests:

Quotation 2 and what it suggests:

Relevant Victorian context:

Answer Key

Activity 1: 1. duality ; 2. hides parts of himself ; 3. a force released after restraint ; 4. can control the transformation

Activity 2: 1. Utterson is discreet and avoids gossip ; 2. Utterson is reluctant to intrude into another person’s private affairs ; 3. A good reputation is presented as fundamental to a person’s social identity and respectability ; 4. Utterson recognises that friendship does not always give him the right or ability to control another person’s choices

Activity 3: 1. advances in scientific investigation ; 2. it challenges boundaries between science and morality ; 3. people may contain opposing impulses ; 4. respectability can conceal private behaviour

Activity 4: 1. two ; 2. pleasures ; 3. roaring ; 4. choose

Activity 5: Answers will vary. A strong plan argues that Stevenson presents public respectability as a façade that can conceal private desires; it uses relevant quotations such as “I concealed my pleasures” and “man is not truly one, but truly two”, analyses their language, and makes a relevant contextual link to Victorian concerns about morality, reputation or scientific experimentation.