Chapter 2: Search for Mr. Hyde Flashcards
“This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner”.
Description of Dr. Lanyon
“Friend and benefactor Edward Hyde”.
Link between positive Jekyll and negative Hyde
“Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake’s sake, as they say, I see and I have devilish little of the man”.
Lanyons description of Jekyll
Lanyon is traditional where as Jekyll is more unorthodox and experimental
“Stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming”.
Tormented by story of Hyde
“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek”.
Pun showing secrecy
Hide and Seek are opposites
“He was small and very plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination”.
Brief description of Hyde
Watcher is curious about Hyde’s appearance
“Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”.
“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh”.
Animal Imagery to describe Mr. Hyde
“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish. He gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.”
Know one knows why Hyde is deformed
Appearance is almost ‘unhealthy’
“A large, low-roofed, comfortable hall, paved with flags, warmed (after the fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly cabinets of oak”.
Description of Jekyll’s home
Evidently has a lot of money
Alliteration
“Black secrets, by the look of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll’s worst would be like sunshine”.
Finding out Hyde’s secrets and past to figure out Jekyll’s involvement
What main theme is explored during The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Duality
