Chapter 8 Key Quotations Flashcards

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Poole’s description of the events:

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“Foul play”

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Eerie description of the night:

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“It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March”

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Suggests supernatural, otherworldly forces are at work:

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“a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her”
- “Pale” suggests the sense of penetrating fear that permeates the setting; perhaps this reflects Utterson’s own fear.

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Furthers the idea of the eerie, gothic depiction of the supernatural with the clouds:

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“a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture”
- Creates a highly abnormal, otherworldly atmosphere.

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5
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Utterson’s sense of fear:

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“crushing anticipation of calamity”
- “crushing” and “calamity” create a semantic field of destruction, furthering the feelings of fear and unexplained apprehension
- Perhaps the fact that the rational Utterson feels this way implies that the setting is truly frightening

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Hostile weather:

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“biting weather”
- Animalistic, ruthless description; the hostility of the weather intensifies the fear that Poole and Utterson feel, creating more mystery and suspense for the reader.

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7
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Foreshadowing of death:

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“flecked the blood into the face”

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8
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Theme of suffering/punishment - foreshadows Jekyll’s own death:

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“the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing”
- “Lashing” exemplifies the hostility of the setting, powerfully foreshadowing a dramatic event, intensifying the horror of the setting and therefore the gothic fear felt by Utterson.

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Servants’ anxiety:

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“huddled together like a flock of sheep”
- “Huddled” perhaps depicts their insecurity, “sheep” suggests their vulnerability, exemplifying the atmosphere of extreme tension.

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10
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Hyde’s animalistic/dehumanising depiction:

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  • “digging among the crates”
  • “cry out like a rat”
  • “that thing was not my master”
  • “that masked thing like a monkey jumped”
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Poole’s sense of inherent fear upon witnessing Hyde:

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  • “the hair stood upon my head like quills”
  • “it went down my spine like ice”
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London echoing the extreme tension and suspense:

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“London hummed solemnly all around”
- “hummed” creates a sense of ominous monotony that furthers the sense of tension hanging in the atmosphere.

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13
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Hyde/Jekyll’s suffering:

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“Weeping like a […] lost soul”

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14
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Dying body of Hyde:

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“sorely contorted and still twitching”
- “Contorted” and “twitching” exemplifies a sense of deformation, depicting the horrifying scene in the cabinet, intensified by “sorely”.

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