Intro Quiz: Science and religion (Part 2)

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﻿Hello, and welcome to our second lesson revisiting themes of Science and Religion in the novella Jeckyll and Hyde. in today's lesson, we'll be looking at how Stevenson presents the creation of Hyde, and uses that creation to exploit Victorian reader's fears about Scientific Advancement. For today's lesson,all you'll need is a pen, paper, and something to write on or with. Please take a moment now to clear away any distractions, including turning off the notifications on any apps or conversations that you have running if you know how to, and finally,try to find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed for this lesson. Okay,So when you're ready,let's begin. We're going to be answering this question today, It is the same question that we answered in our first science and religion lesson so we'll be building on that previous literature paragraph that we wrote and doing another one today. The question is, how does Stevenson present ideas about science and religion in the novel? First, we'll be looking at two key words in relation to this theme. Then we'll explore the theme of science and religion itself, Then we'll pick apart some key moments from the novella, and I'll ask you questions about quotations from those moments, Then we'll apply all of our learning to a literature paragraph in response to that question that I just showed you, finishing off with a short review quiz. So let's get started with those two key words, The first one is Sacrilege,Sacrilege is the noun form, the adjective form of that the describing word would be sacrilegious. Sacrilege is a sinful or unholy action, so murder is an act of sacrilege. Another example from the novella, Dr Jekyll's creation of Hyde is sacrilegious. Pause the video to write your word and the definition. Now our second key word is Dehumanised. That means deprived of human qualities, not allowed or not given human qualities. So for example, they dehumanise their enemy in the war, meaning they removed the human qualities of their enemy. And an example from the novella hyde is dehumanised through his animalistic descriptions, Please write down dehumanised and the definition. Now let's check that you understood that, which of the following sentences uses sacrileges correctly, is it a, his choice to not share the chocolate bar with sacrilegious, or is it b, his choice to murder the family was sacrilegious, Pause the video to write your answer it's coming up in three, two and one. That's right,The correct answer was b, the choice to murder the family was sacrilegious because murdering a family, I think we can all agree a significantly more serious and sinful than not sharing a chocolate bar. Now let's check that you've understood dehumanised, which of these sentences uses dehumanised correctly. Is it a, the soldier is dehumanised when he is stripped of any human features, or is it b, he was so tired from fighting that he became dehumanised. Pause the video to write your answer it's coming up in three, two, and one. the correct answer is a, dehumanised means to take away your human features so therefore stripping him a few more features, is exactly the same. Now we're going to look at the key theme of science and religion. Stevenson uses the contrast between Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon in the novella to illustrate Victorian society's struggle to understand the existence of both science and religion while Dr Lanyon represents traditional, Pious Victorians. Dr Jekyll represents the new scientific advancements that many Victorians feared, Dr Jekyll's creation of Hyde is presented as sacrilegious as he is playing the role of God by creating life. Stevenson exploits Victorian fears about Scientific Advancements by presenting Hyde as evil and out of control. Now let's check that you understood that I'd like you to write the numbers down one, two, and three and then whether they're true or false, if they are false, I want you to write the statements out correctly. Number one, Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon as similar characters, two,Stevenson admires Dr Jekyll's creation of Hyde presenting the benefits of this creation. Three, Stevenson presents Hyde as inhumane and evil. Pause the video to write your answers it's coming up in three, two, and one. Number one was false, Jekyll and Lanyon are not similar characters They're opposites because Lanyon is Jekyll's dramatic foil. Number two is also false, Stevenson presents the creation of Hyde as sacrilegious, as Jekyll is playing God. And three is true, Pause the video to check and correct your answers. Now we're moving on to our key moments from the novella. We'll start with a quick recap on the key moments from last lesson, which were all about Dr Lanyon, who represents the pious Victorians who were afraid of the new world, that Jekyll's scientific ideas threatened to create. Last lesson,we focused on these three key moments, First of all, chapter two, where Dr Lanyon criticises Jekyll's science and says they haven't been friends for 10 years because of it. Secondly, chapter six, where Dr Lanyon is seriously ill but won't tell us why. And then thirdly, chapter nine, Dr Lanyon's letter which we only read after his death, and where he explains his sighting of Hyde. let's check if You've remembered that. Why did Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon stop talking to each other? Is it a, Dr Lanyon judges Dr Jekyll science is Balderdash and unscientific. or is it b, Dr Jekyll insults Dr Lanyon and they have a fight. Pause the video to write your answer is coming up in three, two, and one. The correct answer is a, Dr Lanyon judges Dr Jekyll science's Balderdash and unscientific. What did Dr Lanyon see that caused him to die from shock? Was it a, he saw Dr Jekyll's laboratory and collection of potions, or was it b, he saw Hyde transform into Dr Jekyll. Pause to write your answer it's coming up in three, two, and one. The correct answer is of course b, when Dr Lanyon sees Jekyll's transformation, he screamed,"Oh God!"... and "Oh God!" again and again. What does this suggest? Is it a, Dr Lanyon is calling upon God as he fears that what he seen goes against his faith, or is it b, Dr Lanyon thinks that he's witnessing a religious vision, pause the video to write your answer it's coming up in three, two and one. That's correct, he knows that what he's seeing is not a religious vision because it is a sacrilege that he's seeing. Now moving on to today's key moments, today we're focusing on the creation of Hyde. Stevenson presents Hyde as a primitive and inhuman being, alluding to Darwin's theory of evolution. He presents the creation of Hyde as ungodly, as Dr Jekyll is playing the role of God by creating life and shows Jekyll losing control of Hyde to highlight Victorian fears about scientific advancements. So we've got three key moments for that, the first one is chapter two, when artists and meets Hyde. The second is chapter four, when Hyde kills the Danvers Carew and when look at chapter seven, where we start to see Jekyll losing control of Hyde. So let's start with chapter two, where Utterson meets Hyde. In this chapter, Utterson hunts down Mr Hyde after hearing about high trampling the girl in chapter one. when he meets Hyde, he instantly recognises him as evil. So our first quotation is Snarled aloud into a savage laugh. And here it's describing Hyde behaving in an animalistic manner. Stevenson alludes to Darwin's theory of evolution here with this animalistic portrayal, to exploit fears about new scientific advancement. And our second quote is Satan's signature upon a face, Hyde immediately seems evil you can see this from his face, and that leads the reader to mistrust him. Let's zoom in on that quotation Satan's signature upon a face. This quotation is describing how Hyde immediately seems evil. The reference to his face alludes to Lombroso's theory that you can tell if someone is a criminal based on their face shape,which leads the reader to mistrust Hyde. A signature, typically connotes ownership, who is Stevenson saying owns Hyde? And how does this present Hyde, pause the video to write your answer, it's coming up in three, two, and one. A signature typically connotes ownership so by saying that Hyde has Satan's signature on his face, it's implies that because Jekyll's creation was sacrilegious Hyde is owned by the devil. This further reinforces the idea that Hyde is pure evil as Jekyll created him to be an embodiment of his inner evil pause the video to check and correct your answers. Now let's move on to our second key moment of the lesson, which is chapter four, where Hyde kills Sir Danvers Carew in this chapter, which is known as The Carew Murder Case, Hyde brutally murders the MP Sir Danvers Carew. This is his second attack in the novella, Following the trampling of the little girl in chapter one, one of our key quotations here is. He broke out in a great flame of anger. Hyde seems uncontrollable here with his anger compared to an unstoppable fire. And we've got the idea of him breaking out as if he's been repressed but now he's free and let loose. And our second quotation is ape-like fury, here we see Hyde's rage is presented as animalistic and primitive. Let's zoom in on that second quote now. This quotation implies a lack of control on Hyde's part and also links to the idea that he is in some way devolved. It builds the idea of Hyde being animalistic from where he is described as snarling by Utterson and roaring by Jekyll, making him seem dehumanised and therefore other, unlike the other characters, what scientific theory is ape- like alluding to? and why might Stevenson reference this, pause the video to write your answers. They're coming up in three,two and one, the simile ape-like theory alludes to Darwin's theory of evolution. After the theories of Darwin were published, Victorian society became aware of the idea of evolution, and some were frightened by the concept of devolution. That's the idea that we could degenerate or go back to a primitive state and Hyde embodies those fears, pause the video to check and correct your answers. Now on to our third and final key moments of the lesson, This is chapter seven, where Jekyll is starting to lose control of Hyde. This chapter is called incidents at the window, and it's because Jekyll is sat at his window imprisoned in his home, because after months of drinking his potion, he's now unable to control when Hyde appears and so he's forced to lock himself away in case he turns into Hyde in public. Our first quotation is like some disconsolate prisoner. Jekyll feels hopeless and trapped within his home he no longer has freedom, therefore he's compared to a prisoner. And our second quote, the smile was struck out of his face, demonstrates how violently and suddenly Jekyll's smile drops as he realises that he's about to change into Hyde and so he needs to get away from the window, So the Utterson and an end field who've come to visit him Don't see this transformation. Now let's zoom in on that quotation, Like some disconsolate prisoner, Jekyll created Hyde in order to feel free, as Hyde would be liberated from the constraints imposed on him by society. However, as Hyde gained strength, Jekyll realises he has lost his own autonomy his own control. He's become a prisoner in his own body, as he's losing control over when Hyde appears, the adjective disconsolate implies that he's very unhappy and he's unable to be comforted as he sees no way out of this situation. What are the connotations of prisoner and why is this significant? Pause the video to write your answer It's coming up in three, two, and one. A prisoner is someone who is incarcerated for committing a crime. Through freeing Hyde,Jekyll has become a prisoner to his own evil as this is the side of his character that becomes stronger. He cannot escape his situation and must realise that playing God has come at a cost, pause the video to check and correct your answer Now, please. And now we're moving on to applying our learning to that literature paragraph that I told you about earlier. Our question is still, how does Stevenson present ideas about science and religion in the novella? And I want you to spend 15 minutes writing a really detailed paragraph here. You may wish to mention how Hyde is presented and how pious Victorians would have felt about Hyde's creation. You might also want to bring in the Victorian context of pious Victorian so religious Victorians and how they felt about scientific advancements, such as Darwin's theory. You could include some key vocabulary such as Sacrilege, a sin Rrmember that they would have believed that Jekyll creating Hyde was an act of sacrilege because he's playing God. And you could comment on how high it is dehumanised through the animalistic imagery. I want you to include lots of detailed language analysis here for the quotes that we've talked about as well. Okay. Pause your video now to write that paragraph please. You could have written something like this, Stevenson presents Hyde's as animalistic in chapter four when he killed Sir Danvers Carew with ape-like fury, which alludes to Darwin's theory of evolution and therefore sparks many Victorian readers' fears of devolution. Stevenson also presents the creation of Hyde as an act of sacrilege by presenting Hyde as evil in chapter 2. And he is described as having Satan's signature upon his face, which implies that his evil is immediately obvious the noun signature connotes ownership suggesting he's owned by the devil. Okay. This student started off with a key idea about Hyde, and they've got two quotations they've said where they're from in the novella,they've got some reference to context they've even done a bit of single word analysis on signature,but we're about to look at something even more developed now. Think about how this one's better than the one I just showed you. Stevenson uses Hyde's animalistic portrayal to spark the fears about devolution, that many Victorian readers held, in chapter four, when he killed Sir Danvers Carew with ape-like fury Hyde is presented as uncontrollable and the primitive depiction of Hyde as an ape directly references Darwin's theory of evolution referencing the fear of new scientific advancements. Stevenson also presents the creation of Hyde as sacrilegious. As many pious Victorians would have considered Jekyll to be playing God by creating human life. Hyde's evil presentation is evidence in chapter two when he's described as having Satan's signature upon his face which implies that his evil is immediately obvious, the noun signature connotes ownership suggesting he's owned by the devil and therefore reinforcing the idea that Jekyll is damned to hell as a result of hides creation. Hopefully you can see that this one has got a lot more context weaved in throughout the paragraph in with their analysis. They've still got all of those key words and they've still got the two quotations, but they've also changed their point their idea at the beginning a bit, they've started it with Stevenson uses Hyde, and then what Stevenson is showing through Hyde, That's a really good thing to do If you can do it. pause the video now to assess your own answer and think about what you could do to improve it, adding in anything from the slide that you think you've missed. Now, we're moving on to our quick review quiz please click on the link and complete the five question multiple choice quiz. And that takes us to the end of today's lesson, a huge well done on all your learning for today. I'd now like you to consider the three most important things that you learned in today's lesson and write them down. It's totally up to you what they are. Thanks for learning with me today and have a great day.

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In this lesson, we will revisit the theme of science and religion in the novel, considering how Stevenson uses Hyde’s creation to play on Victorian readers’ fears about new scientific advancement.

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