Question
How does Stevenson present Hyde as a frightening figure? Use the extract from Chapter 2 (Utterson's encounter with Hyde) as a starting point. (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- AO2: vague, accumulating descriptors ("pale and dwarfish... downright detestable... apelike"); Utterson can't specify what is wrong; suggests the unspeakable.
- Animal imagery — Darwinian "apelike fury" (4); evolutionary atavism.
- Power of suggestion: the most frightening element is what cannot be named.
- Context: Darwin (1859); late-Victorian fears of evolutionary degeneration; Lombroso's "born criminal" (1876).
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