chapter 3 Flashcards
1
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how does stevenson describe jekyll
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“a large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty”
2
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“a large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty”
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- jekyll
- “large”, “well-made” suggests physically strong and healthy
- respectable, mature
- dramatic contrast between jekylls outward appearance and his secrecy
3
Q
“every mark of capacity and kindness”
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- respectablility and decency
4
Q
quote to describe jekyll as respectabel, kind
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“every mark of capacity and kindness”
5
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“going pale to the very lips and a blackness about his eyes”
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- when jekyll hears hydes name
- extreme reaction physically on his face shows extremity of his fears to hyde
- “to the lips” emphasizes the degree he blacnes showing every colour has been lost
- “blackness” - mystery, darkness jekyll’s secrets are shrouded in
6
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quote to show jekyll’s extreme reaction in ch.3 to the meantion of hyde
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“going pale to the very lips and a blackness bout his eyes”
7
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“something of a slyish cast perhaps” (“but every mark of capacity and kindess” comes next)
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- juxtopostition in his personality with “slyish” and “capacity and kindess” - adjectives to show dual perosnlity within jekyll
- “slyish” - suffix “ish” on adjective presents uncertainty and reinforces the idea that the reader does not fully understand jekyll’s charatcer yet
- jekylld is living a facade and this incoherency presents him as untrustowryhy
8
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quote to show how jekyll thinks he has hyde under control
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“the moment i choose i can be rid of mr hyde”
9
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“the moment i choose i can be rid of mr hyde”
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- irony, jekyll’s thinks he can manage and control hyde that leads to the opposite outcome
- atp jekyll is sill dominant of the two character, still time for jekyll to liberate himself from the malevolatn force of hyde before he becomes imprisoned by his dark desires
