Chapter 8: The Last Night Flashcards
“The man’s appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for the worse; and except for the moment when he had first announced his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in the face”.
Poole appearance reflects how frightened he is after what he’s just witnessed
“It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had wind had tilted her”.
Pathetic fallacy to reflect negativity of Hyde and past events
“For his face was white, and his voice, when he spoke, harsh and broken”.
Poole’s appearance emphasises fear
“For God’s sake,” he had added, “find me some of the old”.
Jekyll desperation to become Hyde
“And Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies”.
Hyde’s evilness ruins Jekyll’s creative work
Religious connotations
“And Utterson, once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, trudged back into his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained”.
Utterson gets third enclosure and can finally find out what Jekyll’s been doing
Chapter ends on a cliffhanger
