Jekyll and Hyde – Chapter 3

Vocab
• Cronies – close friends or companions
• Reputable – having a good reputation
• Contrived – deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously
• To be dry in character/manner – dealing primarily with facts and
presented in a dull, uninteresting way
• Unobstrusive – not obvious or attracting attention
• Gaiety – the state or quality of being light-hearted or cheerful
• Gaily – in a cheerful or light-hearted way
• Hide-bound – unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or
convention
• Heresies – beliefs that deviate from some standard or official belief
• Blatant – obvious
• Abominable – causing moral revulsion
• Incoherency – the quality of being illogical, inconsistent, or unclear
• To make clean breast of – to tell the truth about something
• Irrepressible – not able to be controlled or restrained
Questions
1. Compare the description of Dr Jekyll with that of Hyde.

2. This chapter raises more questions than answers. What are these? Can you
offer any explanations?

3. What is the dramatic significance of this chapter?

4. Look back at Hyde’s attack on the little girl. Describe:

• Exactly what happened
• How people reacted to the attack
• What it tells us about Hyde
• What is tells us about people’s reactions to Hyde
5. Look again at Utterson’s meeting with Hyde.
• What does Hyde look like?
• How does he speak?
• How does he move?