Part 1: Gothic Fiction: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Answers

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Which excerpts from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde use direct characterization? Choose three answers.Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile . . .He was austere with himself . . .“Indeed?” said Mr. Utterson, with a slight change of voice, “and what was that?”Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight of consideration.No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best . . .

Which sentence uses direct characterization?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.This hall, in which he was now left alone, was a pet fancy of his friend the doctor’s; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London. But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof. He was ashamed of his relief, when Poole presently returned to announce that Dr. Jekyll was gone out.

Which sentence uses indirect characterization?

Which image is most likely to be the setting in a work of gothic fiction?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post."If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd light footstep drawing near. In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with which the footfalls of a single person, while he is still a great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from the vast hum and clatter of the city. Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his wine. This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner. At sight of Mr. Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands. The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.