Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case Flashcards
“An aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair”.
Positive description of Carew
“Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world”.
Contrast with upcoming horrors
About a maid-servant who goes from having good experiences to bad
“He broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane”.
Murder described in horrific + explicit detail
Metaphor
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot”.
Animal Imagery
“His eye lighted up with professional ambition”.
Officer realises he’s going to benefit from such a high-profile murder case
“Particularly small and particularly wicked-looking”.
Description of Hyde
Repetition
“It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours”.
Setting emphasises brutality of murder
Imagery linking to death
Weather almost ‘battling heaven’
“A dingy street, a gin-palace, a low French eating-house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many nationalities passing out”.
Setting contrasts with Hyde’s character
Repetition
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent”.
Women’s appearance
Dual personalities
“Haunting sense of unexpressed deformity”.
Hyde’s unpleasant appearance
