Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dialectical Journal

Directions: As you encounter Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde in your reading, note the diction, imagery, and details that create a mood that the author uses to help characterize each side of the man. Dr. Jekyll Textual Evidence Is diction, imagery, What mood is created? How does the Quotation with MLA citation or detail employed? mood characterize Dr. Jekyll?

“The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll Imagery/Diction Suspense/Suspicion is created from grew pale to the very lips, and there this passage. It makes him seem came a blackness about his eyes” (13). sketchy and suspicious.

“Now that the evil influence had been Detail The mood that is created in this withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. passage is peaceful. This helps Jekyll” (22). characterize Jekyll as nice, peaceful, and loving by showing the reader what his life is like without the negative influence. “Dr. Jekyll looking deathly sick” (18). Diction/Detail/ This creates a terrifying mood. This Imagery helps characterize Jekyll as a victim of Hyde.

Mr. Hyde Textual Evidence Is diction, imagery, What mood is created? How does the Quotation with MLA citation or detail employed? mood characterize Mr. Hyde?

“… there was the man in the middle, Diction/Imagery This creates a creepy and eerie mood. with a kind of black, sneering coolness” This mood helps build him up as a (3). creepy and mysterious character.

“The other snarled aloud with Detail/Diction This creates a pensive, cold, and extraordinary quickness” (10). nightmarish. This mood helps characterize Hyde as dangerous and terrifying.

Thesis Statements: Considering the above evidence, create possible thesis statements.

Robert Louis Stevenson employs ______, ______, and ______to establish the ______mood, which complements the character of Dr. Jekyll.

Robert Louis Stevenson uses ______, ______, and ______to establish a ______mood, which complements the character of Mr. Hyde.

Robert Louis Stevenson utilizes ______, ______, and ______to contrast the characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Created by Kimberley Tucker, Arab Junior High School