chapter 4 Flashcards
1
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“a fog rolled over the city”
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- “fog” noun evokes sense of obsucrity and mystery
- goes with setting as the industrial eras pollution, moral and physical paralleling jekyll’s own moral degradation
- unsettiling atmosphere
2
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quote to show fog in city
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“the fog rolled over teh city”
3
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quote to describe sir danvers carew
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“and ages and beautiful genteman with white hair”
4
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“an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair”
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- “white hair” is a symbol of distinguishment and purity, benevolance
– carew’s innocence serves to highlight hyde’s maliciousness - ## juxtoposes hyde’s = duality
5
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“ape like fury”
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- animalistic, untames, raw violent
-“fury” = volatile and dangerous nature of hyde, overpowering force of violence - similes = often describes hyde through similes, he is almost something but never fully defined, feelings of uncertainty about hyde thorugh amibiguos language and methods, no one can describe him fully so we have to use similes
6
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“ape like fury” - evolution
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- primal, animlaistic orignins that would links to darwins theory, this echoes fears brought by his theory
- this challenged religious beleifs
7
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“ape like fury” atavism
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- he still has primitive animals like states that would have scared individuals at the time due to the vicotrians fear of the concept of atavism
8
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quote comparing hyde to an ape
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“ape like fury”
