Chapter 1 Flashcards

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“Lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow loveable”

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Shows the duality of Utterson’s character

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“Cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse”

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Shows he (Utterson) is an average, uninteresting Victorian

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3
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“From someplace at the end of the world, about 3’oclock”

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Enfield to Utterson

Shows mystery and gothic feel, as we don’t know what Enfield was doing at that time

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“trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground”

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Oxymoron of calmly and trampled establishes brutality of Hyde

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“It wasn’t like a man, it was like some damned Juggernaut”

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Shows how Hyde is more of a monster than a human

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“Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him”

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This shows how Hyde brings out the negativity in people

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“with a kind of black sneering coolness”

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The words sneering and coolness present duality within Hyde

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“Really like Satan”

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Religious imagery shows how devilish Hyde is

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9
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“Tut-tut!”

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Shows how Utterson does not gossip - shows he is a respectable Victorian gentleman

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“There is something wrong with his appearance, something displeasing, something downright detestable”

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Enfield to Utterson

This shows how unnatural Hyde is, shows that he is something supernatural that Enfield cannot put his mouth on

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