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Good morning, everyone.

My name is Mr. Chandrapala and I'm going to be guiding you through today the final part of Jekyll's confession in the "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

We have already done so much work understanding how Jekyll is presented and we're bringing all our ideas together now and we're going to see how we can form our own opinion about Dr.

Jekyll's actions throughout the novella.

And we're gonna be starting to try and deliver a judgement on whether he is a truly remorseful man or whether he is morally bankrupt and has repressed his desires and allowed them to come out through Hyde.

So as I said in the introduction, we're gonna be forming our own opinions about the actions of Dr.

Jekyll throughout the novella.

And then what I want you to be able to do today is I want you to be able to bring in all the knowledge that you've amassed over the course of this novella and to really use that so that we can form our own really strong judgments as we head towards the novella's conclusion.

Because by the end of today, we will have read the whole thing and you'll be able to bring and synthesise every single bit of knowledge that you have about Jekyll together to form your own opinion.

So it's worth talking here about our key words.

We're gonna start off with this noun, allure.

If you feel an allure to something, as Jekyll does, you may feel it has a captivating charm or attraction that draws people in creating a sense of fascination.

And it's fair to say that Jekyll feels that allure of his alter ego, that second self, or alternative personality, often representing different aspects of one's own character.

The major reason that he feels such, the strong allure of his alter ego is because he views Hyde as being interchangeable with his more reputable self.

So for something to be interchangeable, that adjective is means that it's capable of being exchanged or replaced with another, often without a significant impact.

However, Jekyll realises that Hyde ultimately will live in infamy.

He has a widespread reputation for negative deeds bringing disgrace or notoriety to an individual thing.

And what Jekyll really feels is that actually Hyde's infamy will proceed him and will lead to him, also Jekyll also suffering.

He fears that Hyde's infamy is so great that it will eventually lead to the gallows, a structure used for execution by hanging.

So it should reveal to us really the strength of feeling that Jekyll feels about Hyde's mystiques.

So we're going to start off today by looking at the allure of Hyde, the thing that seems to draw Jekyll towards Hyde.

And we're going to start that by first of all discussing what do we remember about the first half of chapter 10 of the "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

I'm gonna give just a couple of moments and I want you to pause the video and either in your class or by yourself discuss what are the key things that we learned from the first half of the chapter.

Pause the video now, see if you can jot down any of those key ideas.

Well done, everyone for that really furthered discussion about the key ideas of Chapter 10, the first half of chapter 10 of Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

You may have remembered that Jekyll has been conflicted between his desires and societal expectations, his desire to indulge in his lust, his secretive, lustful desires which he knows are so illicit and also his societal desire to sort of exist with his head held high.

You may have remembered that Hyde is created as a result of Jekyll's experimentations, his desire to split what he views as the duality of man, that good and evil of man, how Jekyll wants to purge the evil side of that dual nature, that he wants Hyde to be an output for his impulses and desires so that Jekyll can live a morally pure life.

And how Jekyll doesn't appear to be that remorseful over Hyde's actions claiming that he is this dreadful shipwreck and also knowing that his conscience slumbered for all that Hyde had once done.

So we're going to start now by reading chapter 10 from, "Into the details of infamy," to "I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.".

As you're reading and you may be doing this independently or as a class, as you are reading, you need to take time to pause and ask yourself questions to check your understanding.

If you're doing that in a class, you may be wanting to discuss that amongst yourselves in your pairs or as a part wider discussion.

But if you're doing that independently, it may just be worth taking notes either in your copy of the text or just on a spare sheet of paper just so you are really using these questions to guide you.

So the four questions that we're looking at are how did Jekyll make sure he no longer had to assign any more checks on behalf of Hyde? What does Jekyll find shocking when he wakes up? What suggestions were there that Hyde was becoming more powerful and what was Jekyll's choice and what did he choose? Pause the video now and independently or as a class, begin reading through answering those questions.

Some excellent annotation there.

I'm really pleased to see so many of you noticing and linking back to the fact that Jekyll, we've seen his handwriting before and guessed it when talking to Utterson, point out that Jekyll seems to have very similar handwriting to Hyde.

I love the fact that some of you were making that connection and starting to think about what that suggests about Jekyll's relationship to Hyde.

So we're gonna have a quick knowledge check now and we're just gonna check by seeing which of these events does not happen in this section of chapter 10.

So option A, is Jekyll sets up a new bank account in Hyde's name to prevent him having to sign checks on Hyde's behalf.

Option B, for the first time, Jekyll went to sleep as Henry Jekyll, but woke up as Edward Hyde.

Option C, Hyde was becoming less powerful.

Jekyll felt like he was in complete control of his alter ego, or option D, worrying that Jekyll was enjoying the pleasures of Hyde too much, Jekyll chose to stay in the doctor's form and leave Hyde behind.

Pause the video now and choose which one of these events does not happen in this section of chapter 10.

Oh, really good work everyone.

I could see some of you really wrestling with it and I know that it would've been really tempting to go for option C as something that does happen 'cause it even uses the term alter ego.

But option C does not happen.

Hyde does not become less powerful.

And in fact, every single time that Jekyll transforms into Hyde, he finds Hyde growing in stature becoming a little bit more powerful each time.

So we know that C is incorrect.

We're now gonna have a look at discussing the allure of Hyde and we're gonna have a look at three different viewpoints.

Each of these viewpoints is a summary of Jekyll and we need to decide which one we agree with and why, using the text to support our ideas.

So the first idea is from Izzy who argues that Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde become more interchangeable.

The men may look different, but Jekyll begins to enjoy Hyde's pleasures.

Aisha takes a slightly different view and says Jekyll's description of Hyde's crimes as infamy implies he has a sense of remorse.

He is horror struck at the thought of losing control of his creation.

Ultimately, he chooses to live life as Jekyll.

Alex though takes a completely separate view and says the allure of Hyde becomes too much for Jekyll.

He claims he's tortured by the longings of Hyde and is too morally a weak to resist.

Pause the video now and going back to that specific section of chapter 10, select which quotes you would choose to support any of these ideas.

You may choose to have a look at any one, or you may choose to look at each one in turn.

Remember, we're looking for a range of quotations from this section of the text.

Pause the video now, get down to key ideas that you wanna have a look at.

Start looking for quotations.

So we're going to start here by going through Izzy's argument, which I know a lot of you chose to do, and it's a really interesting one to start with.

Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde become more interchangeable.

The men look different, but Jekyll begins to enjoy Hyde's pleasures and some of you picked out some really good evidence for this.

The fact that Jekyll projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde.

Well, if he's sharing those pleasures, that would suggest that actually, he too is benefiting from them and he feels accustomed to sleeping in the body of Edward Hyde.

Well that would suggest that he almost feels comfortable in it.

It doesn't feel like something that's so different.

If you're accustomed to something, it becomes habit.

Several of you though went for Aisha's idea that actually Hyde's crimes are considered to lead to infamy for Jekyll suggesting that he feels a sense of remorse.

He's horror struck at the thought of losing control of his creation and ultimately, he chooses a life as Jekyll.

I really like this viewpoint actually, and we concede that Jekyll uses language which is really linked to damnation like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgement.

Judgement , this biblical idea that would suggest that he fears how he will be viewed for his transgressions.

Some people even picked out that moment that he said, "I began to spy a danger that the balance of my nature might be permanently overthrown." Remember that Jekyll chooses to take the transformation in the first place because he's looking to separate good and evil, but he wants to separate evil so that he can leave it behind apparently.

If he feels that he's going to be permanently overthrown by it, he thinks his good will be overwhelmed.

And then the fact that he was standing horror struck, fascinating to see that he too feels terror from Hyde.

Then there were those of you who went for Alex, the allure of Hyde becomes too much for Jekyll.

He claims he's tortured by the longings of Hyde and is too morally weak to resist them.

I really like this view.

"I began to be tortured with throes and longings." If you're longing for something, that means that you yearn for it.

It's the thing that you really want to do.

But if you're tortured by it, that would suggest that you realise that there is a danger to it.

And if he's making this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, is he fully thinking about what he's actually getting himself involved in here? I think what I really like about the line once again, "Compounded and swallowed the transforming draught" is the fact that actually if he's once again swallowing it, he's once again compounding it, it almost feels like he's powerless to it when really we know that it's an incredibly technical procedure and he's doing it and making that conscious effort.

He doesn't get to say that this is done unconsciously or without any choice.

We're now gonna have a look at Jekyll's confession, looking at him as a broken man.

This time I want you to read chapter 10 from, "I do not suppose that," to the end of the chapter, and so the end of the novella.

As you're reading, take time to pause and ask yourself questions to check your understanding.

Again, you may choose to do this independently or as part of a wider class.

Nonetheless, the same six questions apply to each of you.

You may want to be taking notes about how did Hyde feel when he was murdering Carew and how does that contrast with how Jekyll feels about the murder of Carew? You may want to think about what happens in Regents' Park.

And also after meeting Landon, what does Jekyll say he feared more than being convicted of crimes? We've already read Lanyon's account of this narrative, so it'll be really interesting to see what Jekyll says he fears most.

We then need to think about how Hyde feels about Jekyll and also how Jekyll feels about Hyde.

Finally, we're looking at what happens to Henry Jekyll.

Pause the video now and either as a class read through annotating or independently read through the text, annotating for those six questions.

Loved seeing how many of you were annotating actively there.

Some really good points being made.

We're going to start going through these six questions now using them to guide us.

So you may have discussed the following things from chapter 10 that whilst Hyde was delirious with glee after murdering Carew with a song upon his lips, Jekyll falls to his knees and starts praying to God.

The man of science has now been so deeply troubled by what he's done that he has to pray to God.

Interesting to consider.

Is he praying for forgiveness or is he praying to no longer ever become Hyde? Jekyll attempts to repress Hyde but suddenly transforms in the middle of Regents Park.

I personally love this bit of the novella where there seems to be cords running across his hands to describe the hair that emerges, which is a sign of Hyde emerging.

Jekyll soon stopped fearing punishment for Hyde's crimes.

He feared being Hyde altogether.

Really great distinction here.

The fact that he fears Hyde at all rather than just his crimes suggests that Jekyll realises the true terror of Hyde.

And finally, Hyde loathed Jekyll.

He uses him to escape punishment.

I'm always really struck here by the fact that Hyde discusses or Jekyll notices how Hyde treats him with the indifference that a son treats a father and also how he treats Jekyll as the caves and Hyde as the bandit hiding deep within him.

So we're going to now have a look and just check for our understanding.

I want you to choose between Aisha and Izzy and who correctly summarises how Jekyll and Hyde die.

Aisha says Jekyll and Hyde grow to hate each other.

As Jekyll feels he is losing control of Hyde, he decides they both must die.

He drinks a final potion, designed to kill them both turning Jekyll in to Hyde, one final time, in the process.

Izzy takes a slightly different view.

Hyde grows to hate Jekyll using him only as an escape from punishment for his crimes.

As Jekyll loses control of his transformations, he realises he will permanently live as Hyde.

Hyde realising he has lost cover of safety, becomes a self destroyer, someone who commits suicide rather than facing the gallows.

Take a second here, pause the video and select which option you would choose.

I assure Izzy, which correctly summarises how Jekyll and Hyde died.

Oh, really good discussion, everyone.

Really pleased to see that there was a real tussle there.

We know though that the answer is Izzy and actually that Hyde does grow to hate Jekyll.

He begins to see Jekyll as someone who is stopping him from doing what he wants and eventually Jekyll loses controls of his transformations as seen in Regent's Park and Hyde, unable to deal with the fact that he will face the gallows chooses to commit suicide because he'd rather that than having to face the public death.

So we're now going to see to what extent we agree with this statement.

The statement above that I'm going to ask you to discuss in your groups or take notes by yourselves is, "By the end of this chapter, it is clear that Jekyll is a broken man.

He has lost control over his alter ego and feels complete remorse for his crimes." Pause the video now and see to what extent you would agree with that statement.

Can you find any evidence to back up your idea? Really love the discussion that people were getting into here.

What we're going to start doing now is we're going to look at to what extent we agree with the statement Oak pupils were asked this as well and they plotted themselves against a sort of scale.

So Aisha seems to really agree with the statement that by the end of the chapter, Jekyll is broken remorseful.

Whilst Izzy is completely on the other set of the spectrum and believes that she totally disagrees with the view.

Alex is kind of in between.

What you need to do is select a pupil and write a short paragraph explaining their position.

You need to explain their views on Jekyll using that statement above, that Jekyll is broken and remorseful and you need to use conjunctions to justify your inferences.

You should also be using quotations from across chapter 10 to support your ideas.

So don't just feel limited to what we've just been reading through, but go back through the whole of the chapter, including the start of chapter 10 to back up your ideas.

Pause the video now and put your ideas into practise, either agreeing, disagreeing, or falling somewhere in the middle for that statement that Jekyll is broken and remorseful by the end of the chapter.

Pause the video now.

Have a practise.

Some really great work there everyone.

And I really like the fact that so many of you were going back to some really good annotations to help you develop your responses.

What I'm gonna ask you to do now is reread your response and check it against the checklist below.

Have you clearly explained how the pupil feels about Henry Jekyll? Have you been able to show that Aisha really strongly agrees with that statement or Izzy totally disagrees? Have you used conjunctions to justify your response? Remember, because and so, are really good ways of developing explanations.

Have you made references to quotations from the text to support your inferences? I know a lot of you would've done that already because we did some work around that already.

You may want to just underline or highlight those key quotes just so that you know that they're there for future use.

Pause the video now.

Make sure that you've got that annotated and self-assessed for yourself now.

Some fantastic work today, everyone.

And we're now just going to finish with our summary of Jekyll's confession in chapter 10.

So we know that the reader is put in the position of the juror at the end of the novella deciding whether Jekyll is guilty of Hyde's crimes.

And you've just practised that for yourselves, seeing whether you agree, disagree, or fall somewhere in the middle over whether he is truly remorseful and broken by the end of the text.

We also see to it to the extent that Jekyll is a sympathetic character and that's a somewhat debatable view.

Some of you will have remembered the fact that he views himself as this down shipwreck, but also the fact that he let his conscience slumber, seems to be a bit of a problem.

And we know that actually he grows quite accustomed to being Hyde at certain points.

Does that make him a truly sympathetic character? Jekyll's double life also comes to an end because he has no longer control over his transformations.

And so Hyde in the role sort of whilst controlling the body, chooses to commit suicide so as not to face the gallows.

We also know that Hyde grows increasingly strong as demonstrated by the transformation at Regent's Park.

Every time Hyde grows stronger, Jekyll becomes weaker.

This ultimately leads to Jekyll and Hyde growing to hate each other.

Jekyll hates the fact that he no longer has control over his creation and hates what his creation does.

Whilst Hyde loathed Jekyll because he views him as stopping him from enjoying what he truly wants to do, repressing him, and so stopping him from achieving his lusts, his desires.

They therefore find it difficult to co-exist.

You've done so well reading through this part of the text and you've really dealt well with the complex ideas of Jekyll and Hyde.

I've been exceptionally impressed by all of you and you should take real credit that this, one of the hardest 19th century novellas you could look at has been covered in such great detail by yourselves.

Some excellent work here, everyone.

Well done getting to this stage of chapter 10.