Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey . . .
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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.. . . and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror."O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!
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Which best explains the connection between the climax and a theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
Which events in chapter 8 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde develop the theme "It is important to trust one’s instincts”? Check all that apply. Poole confesses his belief that he feels something is wrong.Poole is relieved when the lawyer comes to the Jekyll home.The cold, stormy weather slows the men as they walk together.The butler believes a murder has been committed in the laboratory.Poole states his belief that the masked figure is Mr. Hyde.Edward Hyde is found dead, but Dr. Jekyll has disappeared.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete. Think of it—I did not even exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead, quietly at home, trimming the midnight lamp in his study, a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll.
Based on Poole’s behavior in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, readers can infer that he
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It was already bad enough when the name was but a name of which he could learn no more. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend."I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients. "If anyone knows, it will be Lanyon,” he had thought.
One theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is "It is important to trust one’s instinct.”
Read the excerpt from chapter 1 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
What would be the first step to take in summarizing the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
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Read the excerpt from chapter 4 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars—even the master of the servant maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will. Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.
Read the excerpt from chapter 3 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope,” continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand. I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde. I know you have seen him; he told me so; and I fear he was rude. But I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away, Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his rights for him. I think you would, if you knew all; and it would be a weight off my mind if you would promise.”
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