In literature, a foil is a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight or accentuate some aspect of the main character.

A pedant is someone who is excessively concerned with minor details.

If something is based on reason or logic then it is rational.

Complicity is when someone is involved in an activity with others that is unlawful or morally wrong.

If you are hiding something or preventing it being known, this is known as concealment.

Dr. Lanyon in 'Jekyll and Hyde': a curious character

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In 'Jekyll and Hyde: the Divided City', pupils explore how the city of London is used as a symbol of Jekyll's duplicitous life. In 'Jekyll & Hyde: Society as the Villain', pupils critically analyse the role the Victorian patriarchy and the class system plays in Jekyll's demise.

In this unit, pupils explore how the society the characters of 'Jekyll and Hyde' inhabit affects their interpretation of them. They first look at structure and the Gothic, before thinking carefully about how to use context. They then look at hypocrisy and write an essay about it in the novella.

Nineteenth century text: second deep dive

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

What is being described here: 'a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight or accentuate some aspect of the main character.'?

In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Lanyon famously describes Jekyll's scientific work as 'unscientific ...'

In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Dr. Lanyon's approach to science is...

In what ways are Jekyll and Lanyon arguably most similar in 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'?

In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Dr. Lanyon keeps Jekyll's transformation secret therefore also hiding his crimes. Arguably, this is an example of...

debatable, they share similarities but also differences.

ridiculous, they are both hypocritical Victorian gentlemen. 

In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', the extent to which Dr. Lanyon is a foil for Dr. Jekyll is...

Match these characters from 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' to their professions.

In what year was the novella 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' first published?

They were once friends but are no longer. 

They are firm friends who see each other regularly.

They were once friends but could now be classed as enemies. 

They were never friends, merely old colleagues. 

Which of the below best describes the relationship between Lanyon and Jekyll at the start of 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'?

In 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', what do Jekyll and Lanyon both have in common?

Hiding something or preventing it being known.

Publicising something so that it is widely known.

Forgetting about something so that it is never remembered. 

Changing something so that it is now different.

What is the definition of the word 'concealment'? Here it is used in a sentence: 'The detective discovered a clever concealment of evidence in the suspect's home.'

What is the definition of the word 'rational'? Here it is used in a sentence: 'Making a rational decision requires careful consideration of all available information.'

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Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

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