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The 19th-century novel Question Page

Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll 01 4–5

and Mr. Hyde
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 02 6–7
Charles Dickens Great Expectations 03 8–9
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 04 10–11
Mary Shelley Frankenstein 05 12–13
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 06 14–15
Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four 07 16–17

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0 1 Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Read the following extract from Chapter 6 (Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon) of

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Utterson thinks about his friendship with Dr Jekyll and how it has changed.

Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of
Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out
of the ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past was
unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at
5 once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the
hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present
whereabouts, not a whisper. From the time he had left the house in Soho on the
morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew
on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow
10 more at quiet with himself. The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking,
more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr. Hyde. Now that that evil
influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll. He came out of
his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar
guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for charities, he
15 was now no less distinguished for religion. He was busy, he was much in the
open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and brighten, as if with an inward
consciousness of service; and for more than two months the doctor was at
peace.
On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor’s with a small party;
20 Lanyon had been there; and the face of the host had looked from one to the
other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends. On the 12th, and
again on the 14th, the door was shut against the lawyer. “The doctor was
confined to the house,” Poole said, “and saw no one.” On the 15th he tried
again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months
25 to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his
spirits. The fifth night he had in Guest to dine with him; and the sixth he betook
himself to Dr. Lanyon’s.

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0 1 Starting with this extract, explore how Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll as a mysterious
character.

Write about:

• how Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll in this extract

• how Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll as a mysterious character in the novel as a whole.
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0 2 Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Read the following extract from Chapter 2 of A Christmas Carol and then answer the
question that follows.

In this extract, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to his school.

“The school is not quite deserted,” said the Ghost. “A solitary child, neglected by
his friends, is left there still.”
Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.
They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a
5 mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the
roof, and a bell hanging in it. It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes;
for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their
windows broken, and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in the
stables; and the coach-houses and sheds were over-run with grass. Nor was it
10 more retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering the dreary hall, and
glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly
furnished, cold, and vast. There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly
bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up
by candle-light, and not too much to eat.
15 They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the back of the
house. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room,
made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely
boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept
to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.
20 Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind
the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind,
not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle
swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon
the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his
25 tears.

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0 2 Starting with this extract, explore how Dickens presents the effects of loneliness and
isolation in A Christmas Carol.

Write about:

• how Dickens presents the effects of loneliness and isolation in this extract
• how Dickens presents the effects of loneliness and isolation in the novel as a whole.
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0 3 Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Read the following extract from Chapter 27 of Great Expectations and then answer the
question that follows.

In this extract, Joe says goodbye to Pip after visiting him in London.

‘But you are not going now, Joe?’

‘Yes I am,’ said Joe.
‘But you are coming back to dinner, Joe?’
‘No I am not,’ said Joe.
5 Our eyes met, and all the ‘Sir’ melted out of that manly heart as he gave me
his hand.
‘Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as
I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a
goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and
10 must be met as they come. If there’s been any fault at all to-day, it’s mine. You
and me is not two figures to be together in London; nor yet anywheres else but
what is private, and beknown, and understood among friends. It ain’t that I am
proud, but that I want to be right, as you shall never see me no more in these
clothes. I’m wrong in these clothes. I’m wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or
15 off th’ meshes. You won’t find half so much fault in me if you think of me in my
forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe. You won’t find half
so much fault in me if, supposing as you should ever wish to see me, you come
and put your head in at the forge window and see Joe the blacksmith, there, at
the old anvil, in the old burnt apron, sticking to the old work. I’m awful dull, but I
20 hope I’ve beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless
you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!’
I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him.
The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these
words, than it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the
25 forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried
out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets; but he was gone.

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0 3 Starting with this extract, explore how far Dickens presents Joe as a good role model to
Pip in Great Expectations.

Write about:

• how Dickens presents Joe in this extract

• how far Dickens presents Joe as a good role model to Pip in the novel as a whole.
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0 4 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

Read the following extract from Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre and then answer the question
that follows.

In this extract, Rochester and Jane have just declared their love for each other.

‘No – that is the best of it,’ he said. And if I had loved him less I should have
thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from
the nightmare of parting – called to the paradise of union – I thought only of the
bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow. Again and again he said, ‘Are you
5 happy, Jane?’ And again and again I answered, ‘Yes.’ After which he
murmured, ‘It will atone – it will atone. Have I not found her friendless, and cold,
and comfortless? Will I not guard, and cherish, and solace her? Is there not love
in my heart, and constancy in my resolves? It will expiate at God’s tribunal.
I know my Maker sanctions what I do. For the world’s judgment – I wash my
10 hands thereof. For man’s opinion – I defy it.’
But what had befallen the night? The moon was not yet set, and we were all
in shadow: I could scarcely see my master’s face, near as I was. And what ailed
the chestnut tree? it writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk,
and came sweeping over us.
15 ‘We must go in,’ said Mr Rochester: ‘the weather changes. I could have sat
with thee till morning, Jane.’
‘And so,’ thought I, ‘could I with you.’ I should have said so, perhaps, but a
livid, vivid spark leapt out of a cloud at which I was looking, and there was a
crack, a crash, and a close rattling peal; and I thought only of hiding my dazzled
20 eyes against Mr Rochester’s shoulder.
The rain rushed down. He hurried me up the walk, through the grounds, and
into the house; but we were quite wet before we could pass the threshold. He
was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened
hair, when Mrs Fairfax emerged from her room. I did not observe her at first, nor
25 did Mr Rochester. The lamp was lit. The clock was on the stroke of twelve.
‘Hasten to take off your wet things,’ said he; ‘and before you go, good-night –
good-night, my darling!’
He kissed me repeatedly. When I looked up, on leaving his arms, there stood
the widow, pale, grave, and amazed. I only smiled at her, and ran upstairs.
30 ‘Explanation will do for another time,’ thought I. Still, when I reached my
chamber, I felt a pang at the idea she should even temporarily misconstrue what
she had seen. But joy soon effaced every other feeling, and loud as the wind
blew, near and deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning
gleamed, cataract-like as the rain fell during a storm of two hours’ duration, I
35 experienced no fear and little awe. Mr Rochester came thrice to my door in the
course of it, to ask if I was safe and tranquil: and that was comfort, that was
strength for anything.
Before I left my bed in the morning, little Adèle came running in to tell me that
the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by
40 lightning in the night, and half of it split away.

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0 4 Starting with this extract, explore how Brontë presents the ways that Jane and Rochester
are affected by their strong feelings for each other.

Write about:

• how Brontë presents Jane and Rochester’s strong feelings in this extract
• how Brontë presents the ways that Jane and Rochester are affected by their strong
feelings for each other in the novel as a whole.
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0 5 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Read the following extract from Chapter 10 of Frankenstein and then answer the question
which follows.

In this extract, Frankenstein meets the monster for the first time since its creation.

As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance,

advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices
in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he
approached, seemed to exceed that of man. I was troubled: a mist came over
5 my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me; but I was quickly restored by the cold
gale of the mountains. I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous
and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had created. I trembled with rage
and horror, resolving to wait his approach, and then close with him in mortal
combat. He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined
10 with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too
horrible for human eyes. But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at
first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words
expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
‘Devil,’ I exclaimed, ‘do you dare approach me? and do not you fear the fierce
15 vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! or
rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! and, oh! that I could, with the
extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so
diabolically murdered!’
‘I expected this reception,’ said the dæmon. ‘All men hate the wretched; how,
20 then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my
creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only
dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare
you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards
you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave
25 them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be
satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.’
‘Abhorred monster! fiend that thou art! the tortures of hell are too mild a
vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! you reproach me with your creation;
come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.’
30 My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings
which can arm one being against the existence of another.
He easily eluded me, and said –
‘Be calm! I entreat you to hear me, before you give vent to your hatred on my
devoted head. Have I not suffered enough that you seek to increase my
35 misery?’

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0 5 Starting with this extract, explore how Shelley presents the relationship between
Frankenstein and the monster.

Write about:

• how Shelley presents the relationship between Frankenstein and the monster in this
extract
• how Shelley presents the relationship between Frankenstein and the monster in the
novel as a whole.
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0 6 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Read the following extract from Chapter 3 of Pride and Prejudice and then answer the
question that follows.

In this extract, Elizabeth meets Mr Darcy for the first time.

Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down
for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near
enough for her to overhear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who
came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend to join it.
5 “Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing
about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.”
“I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly
acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this it would be
insupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the
10 room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.”
“I would not be so fastidious as you are,” cried Mr. Bingley, “for a kingdom!
Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this
evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.”
“You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” said Mr. Darcy,
15 looking at the eldest Miss Bennet.
“Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one of her
sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very
agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”
“Which do you mean?” and turning round he looked for a moment at
20 Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said: “She is
tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present
to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had
better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time
with me.”
25 Mr. Bingley followed his advice. Mr. Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth
remained with no very cordial feelings toward him. She told the story, however,
with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which
delighted in anything ridiculous.

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0 6 Starting with this extract, explore how far Austen presents Mr Darcy as a proud and
prejudiced man.

Write about:

• how Austen presents Mr Darcy in this extract

• how far Austen presents Mr Darcy as a proud and prejudiced man in the novel as a
whole.
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0 7 Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four

Read the following extract from Chapter 1 (The Science of Deduction) of The Sign of
Four and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Holmes is talking to Watson about a French detective who asked for his
help.

‘Oh, he rates my assistance too highly,’ said Sherlock Holmes lightly. ‘He has
considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities
necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of
deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge, and that may come in time. He is
5 now translating my small works into French.’
‘Your works?’
‘Oh, didn’t you know?’ he cried, laughing. ‘Yes, I have been guilty of several
monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one
“Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos”. In it I
10 enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with
coloured plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is a point which is
continually turning up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme
importance as a clue. If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder
had been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously
15 narrows your field of search. To the trained eye there is as much difference
between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird’s-eye as there
is between a cabbage and a potato.’
‘You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae,’ I remarked.
‘I appreciate their importance. Here is my monograph upon the tracing of
20 footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of
impresses. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon
the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, cork-cutters,
compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is a matter of great practical
interest to the scientific detective – especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in
25 discovering the antecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my hobby.’
‘Not at all,’ I answered earnestly. ‘It is of the greatest interest to me,
especially since I have had the opportunity of observing your practical application
of it. But you spoke just now of observation and deduction. Surely the one to
some extent implies the other.’
30 ‘Why, hardly,’ he answered, leaning back luxuriously in his armchair and
sending up thick blue wreaths from his pipe. ‘For example, observation shows
me that you have been to the Wigmore Street Post-Office this morning, but
deduction lets me know that when there you dispatched a telegram.’
‘Right!’ said I. ‘Right on both points! But I confess that I don’t see how you
35 arrived at it. It was a sudden impulse upon my part, and I have mentioned it to
no one.’

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0 7 Starting with this extract, explore how Conan Doyle presents Holmes as an extraordinary
detective.

Write about:

• how Conan Doyle presents Holmes in this extract

• how Conan Doyle presents Holmes as an extraordinary detective in the novel as a
whole.
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