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what extracts are used to present Jekyll at the beginning of the novel?

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  • chapter 2 - search for mr hyde
  • chapter 3 - dr jekyll was quite at ease
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what extracts are used to present Jekyll at the middle of the novel?

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  • chapter 5 - incident of the letter
  • chapter 7 - incident at the window
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what extracts are used to present Jekyll at the end of the novel?

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  • chapter 8 - the last night
  • chapter 9 - dr lanyon’s narrative
  • chapter 10 - henry jekyll’s full statement of the case
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(ch.2) initially, jekyll is presented..

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…through the perspective of dr lanyon

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finish the quote: ‘too…

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..fanciful for me’

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finish the quote: ‘he began to go wrong…

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…wrong in the mind’

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start the quote: …of the man’

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‘devilish little…

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‘too fanciful for me’
‘he began to go wrong in the mind’
‘devilish little of the man’

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  • ‘fanciful’ -> unrealistic + over imaginative
  • this disagreement mimics that of the ‘Ape vs Angel’ debate on darwins theory of evolution - religon vs science
  • ‘devilish’ -> alludes to the things happening in victorian society behind closed doors- secrecy
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finish the quote: ‘such unscientific…

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….balderdash’

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‘such unscientific balderdash’

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  • j + l don’t agree on their scientific theories
  • l believes his theories are nonsense and pollute the field of material medicine with the supernatural and mystical theories that Lanyon and other doctors at the time shunned with resentment
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finish the quote: ‘flushing…

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…suddenly purple’

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‘flushing suddenly purple’

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  • displays his anger and frustration with him
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(ch.2) initially, jekyll is presented…

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…through the perspective of utterson

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finish the quote: ‘wild…

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…when he was young’

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finish the quote: ‘ghost of…

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..some old sin’

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finish the quote: ‘cancer of…

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…some concealed disgrace’

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(ch.3) initially, jekyll is presented…

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..through his appearance

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finish the quote: ‘large, well-made…

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…smooth-faced man of fifty’

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finish the quote: ‘but every mark…

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…of capacity and kindness’

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‘smooth-faced’
‘large’
‘well-made’
‘every mark of capacity and kindness’

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  • jekyll presented through physical appearance
  • victorian ideas of physiognomy
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finish the quote: ‘large…

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…handsome face’

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finish the quote: ‘grew pale…

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..to the very lips’

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finish the quote: ‘blackness….

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…about his eyes’

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‘the large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes’

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  • j’s cheerful and pleasant demeanour rapidly disappears when he is questioned about his will - the change from good to evil is disturbingly quick
  • juxtaposition of j’s handsome face with his pale lips and black eyes shows that man’s dual nature is not just a mental conflict, but also a physical one
  • ‘grew’ ‘came’ ‘about’ -> sense of evil spreading over him uncontrollably
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(ch.2+3) initially, jekyll is presented…

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through his dinner party

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finish the quote: ‘pleasant…

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…dinners’

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finish the quote: ‘all intelligent…

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…reputable men’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘air….

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…of wealth’

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finish the quote: ‘all judges…

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…of good wine’

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‘pleasant’
‘intelligent, reputable men’
‘judges of good wine’

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  • expectations of victorian gentlemen - host ‘pleasant’ and expensive dinners
  • reflective of victorian standards -> of propriety and well-mannered gentlemen
  • men with good reputations and high social status expected to have friends of the same status - hyde broke those standards as jekyll had connections with hyde which were visible to the victorian eyes
  • utterson, enfield and lanyon all examples of this
    reputation presented through social status
    rich
  • jekyll presented through social class
    presents the hierarchy of victorian society
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(ch.3) initially, jekyll is presented…

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…through his secrecy

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32
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finish the quote: ‘this is a private…

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…matter’

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33
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finish the quote: ‘and i beg…

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…of you to let it sleep’

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  • ‘private’
  • ‘beg of you’
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  • jekyll is desperate to keep the matter concealed
  • reflective of victorian ideas of reservation
  • hypocrisy of victorian society - people didn’t want their reputation ruined
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(ch.5)throughout the course of the novel jekyll is presented…

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through his setting

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finish the quote: ‘yard which had…

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…once been a garden’

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37
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finish the quote: ‘his own tastes…

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…being rather chemical than anatomical’

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finish the quote: ‘building which was…

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…indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms’

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finish the quote: ‘dingy…

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…windowless structure’

40
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finish the quote: ‘distasteful…

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…taste of strangeness’

41
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‘distasteful taste of strangeness’

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  • mystery associated with that part of the building
  • sinister
42
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finish the quote: ‘three dusty…

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….windows barred with iron’

43
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‘yard which had once been a garden’
‘his owns tastes being rather chemical than anatomical’
‘building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms’

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  • jekyll inhabits a highly scientific environment, rejecting the simple pleasures of the old garden - he prefers the appeal of the chemistry to the natural world
  • ‘once been a garden’ - a natural wholesome place of relaxation but has been replaced by the scientific experimentation of the ‘laboratory’
    -‘indifferently’ - reinforces ideas of privacy and secrecy - Jekyll commits horrific acts as people are indifferent to his action
  • ‘his owns tastes being rather chemical than anatomical’ - science was a threat to religion in the 19th century as it often contradicted religious teachings -> J’s tastes being rather chemical -> refers to the act that he desires scientific exploration over Utterson’s ‘dry divinity’ - atypical for a v gentleman
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‘dingy windowless structure’
‘three dusty windows barred with iron’

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  • like jekyll himself, jekyll’s house has two sides which are connected
  • the respectable main house is at the front and has an ‘air of wealth’
  • but through the yard there is a laboratory with a back door that is ‘blistered and distained’
  • symbolises jekyll’s personality - outwardly respectable but inwardly sinful
  • the hyde side of his personality is connected to him but he keeps it hidden away
  • LABORATORY - symbolises j’s shame - he transforms it from a place of ordinary science into one of dark experiments - ‘dingy windowless structure’ -> perfect for stopping other people from looking inside
  • ABANDONED - gothic
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(ch.7) throughout the course of the novel jekyll is presented…

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as trapped in the body of hyde

46
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finish the quote: ‘like some…

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…disconsolate prisoner’

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(ch.7) throughout the course of the novel jekyll is presented…

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through his transformation to hyde

48
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finish the quote: ‘smile was struck…

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…out’

49
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finish the quote: ‘succeeded by the…

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…expression of such abject terror and despair’

50
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finish the quote: ‘froze..

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…the very blood’

51
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finish the quote: ‘answering….

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…horror’

52
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finish the quote: ‘god forgive…

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…us’

53
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‘smile was struck out’
‘succeeded by the expression of such abject terror and despair’
- ‘froze the very blood’
- ‘answering horror’
- ‘god forgive us’

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  • j no longer controls h’s appearances and j’s sudden transformation causes extreme physical reactions from u and enfield
  • ‘succeeded’ association with victory -> j is facing a clear battle between good and evil with the hyde in him being victorious
  • ‘smile.. struck’ - sibilance - quickens the pace with which the pleasant ‘smile’ is replaced by ‘abject terror and despair’
54
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(ch.8) finally, jekyll is presented…

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as blasphemous

55
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finish the quote: ‘a copy of a pious…

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…work’

56
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finish the quote: ‘for which jekyll several times…

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…expressed a great esteem’

57
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finish the quote: ‘annotated, in his own hand…

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…with startling blashphemies’

58
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‘a copy of pious work’
‘for which jekyll several times expressed a great esteem’
‘annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies’

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  • jekyll often seen as a character who embraces science, which is dangerous enough
  • here we see an explicit, blasphemous rejection of religion
  • utterson has a ‘great esteem’ for strict, rigid religion - ‘pious’ links to ‘dry divinity’ - jekyll rebels against rigidity in religion, shown in hyde’s scribbles
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(ch.8) finally, jekyll is presented…

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…as desperate

60
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finish the quote: ‘begs them to search…

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..with most sedulous care’

61
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finish the quote: ‘expense is…

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..no consideration’

62
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finish the quote: ‘the importance of this…

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..to dr. j can hardly be exaggerated’

63
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finish the quote : ‘sudden splutter…

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…of the pen’

64
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finish the quote: ‘the writer’s emotion…

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…had broken loose’

65
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(ch.9) finally, jekyll is presented…

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..through his experiments

66
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finish the quote: ‘half full…

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…of a blood-red liquor’

67
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finish the quote: ‘highly pungent…

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…to the sense of smell’

68
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finish the quote: ‘seemed..

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…to me’

69
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finish the quote: ‘to contain phosphorus…

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…and some volatile ether’

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‘half full of a blood-red liquor’
‘highly pungent to the sense of smell’
‘seemed to me’
‘to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether’

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  • lanyon’s description of what he finds in jekyll’s private cabinet is disturbing -> he cannot make sense of it and it is depicted as highly dangerous
  • ‘a’ ‘seemed to me’ -> fear of science stemmed from its unknown qualities - show how even dr lanyon couldn’t make sense of jekyll’s experiments
  • ‘highly pungent’ - shows jekyll offending senses as well as our morals - his behaviour is literally and metaphorically rotten
  • ‘volatile’ -> mimics the unstable nature of jekyll and hyde
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(ch.10) finally, jekyll is presented…

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through his personal statement of the case

72
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finish the quote: ‘honourable and…

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…distinguished future’

73
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finish the quote: ‘impatient gaiety…

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…of disposition’

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‘honourable and distinguished future’
‘impatient gaiety of disposition’

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  • displays jekyll’s ambition to be a victorian gentleman
  • but was impatient to become great
75
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finish the quote: ‘carry my…

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…head high’

76
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‘carry my head high’

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  • was honourable
77
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finish the quote: ‘wear a more..

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…than commonly grave countenance before the public’

78
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finish the quote: ‘concealed…

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…my pleasures’

79
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finish the quote: ‘profound duplicity…

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..of life’

80
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finish the quote: ‘regarded..

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..and hid them’

81
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finish the quote: ‘morbid..

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…sense of shame’

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‘head high’

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  • displays how he seeks approval from others
  • very aware at how other people see him
  • typical of a victorian gentleman to want to uphold his pristine reputation
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‘a more commonly grave countenance before the public’

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  • jekyll has always tried to put on a facade for his society - he worries about his hidden desires
  • he over dramatises how bad his desires are as his inner desires contrast to the character he appears to be
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‘profound duplicity of life’

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  • as a result of his dual interests, jekyll finds himself committed to a ‘profound duplicity of life’ which is why making a potion to split his two sides appeals to him so much, and he pursues his transformation into hyde as a result
  • ‘duplicity’ means to be disloyal or to be unfaithful- this implies that jekyll is disloyal to the christian upper class community he lives in
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‘concealed my pleasures’
‘regarded and hid them’
‘morbid sense of shame’

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  • jekylls hidden desires cause him to feel guilt, so he tries to repress these desires and feels a ‘morbid sense of shame’
  • this shows how he feels he has dishonoured the society he lives in and he feels embarrassed of his secret activities
  • his engagement with science, and guilt hereafter, is often linked to the rigorous christian ideals that citizens were expected to uphold, causing guilt and shame for those who did not conform to the victorian ideals prescribed to them
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stevenson’s intentions of jekyll’s science

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  • during 1800s, science challenged religious ideas and beliefs
  • jekyll’s science challenges the religious belief that humans should try to lead a life free from sin
  • stevenson wanted to show the readers that it is impossible to do so, and that repression only leads to excessive corruption - critical of victorian society
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finish the quote: ‘man is not only..

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…one but two’

88
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finish the quote: ‘risked..

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…death’

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‘man is not only one but two’
‘primitive duality of man’
‘risked death’

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  • jekyll is so desperate to split the two sides of the human pysche that he ‘risked death’ to transform into hyde
  • the experiments do not go as planned - he only succeeds in releasing his bad side, and he remains undivided as he was before - with both good and bad qualities
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‘transcendental’
‘mystic’

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  • ‘transcendental’ -> medicine to take humans beyond realms of normal experience
  • jekyll is presented as a revolutionary scientise, who is not afraid to pursue controversial research - he experiments on himself
91
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(ch.10) finally, jekyll is presented…

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through his transformation into hyde

92
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finish the quote: ‘there was something…

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..strange in my sensations’

93
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finish the quote: ‘something indescribably..

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..new’

94
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finish the quote: ‘incredibly…

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….sweet

95
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finish the quote: ‘younger,..

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…lighter, happier in body’

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‘there was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and from its very novelty, indescribably sweet’
‘felt younger, lighter and happier in body’

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  • he enjoys the transformations
  • feels released from the heavy restraints of the external society

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