Doors, windows and keys

Question 1

‘The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained’

Answer 1

• No bell or knocker means no way to get in = secrecy, mystery
  -‘Blistered and distained’ - same as Hyde, associates them

Question 2

‘At the door of this, which wore a great air of comfort and wealth’

Answer 2

• Comfort and wealth = respectable, the house of a gentleman
• Personification of ‘wore’ - like this is what defines the house

Question 3

‘Three dusty windows barred with iron’

Answer 3

• Again secrecy, ‘barring’ the truth from being known outside of the laboratory

Question 4

‘The middle one of the three windows was half-way open’

Answer 4

Windows = mystery so if one of them is opened, the mystery is beginning to be solved

Question 5

The door was very strong, the lock excellent

Answer 5

• Lexical field of security (excellent lock and strong) - why does the laboratory need this? Door = preventing the mystery from being solved