Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Flashcards
quote for story of the door
“cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backwards in sentiment;lean, long,dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable”
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground… it wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut
Interpretation:
we have the first depiction of Hyde’s evil Nature, and Stevenson deliberately inflicts it on the child to a nor’easter the readers fear of Hyde’s character
techniques:
oxymoron- ‘man’ against ‘child’ ‘ trampled calmly’ - comfortable to violence
child’s body’ - dehumanises the victim
‘juggernaut’- suggests violence, powerful force surging toward the unstoppable manner.simlie
” the large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lip, and there came a blackness about his eyes.”
interpretation:
Jekyll’s cheerful and pleasant demeanour rapidly disappears when he is questioned about his will, the change from good to evil is disturbingly quick.
techniques:
the juxtaposition of Jekyll’s ‘handsome ‘face with pale lips show the dual nature of man.
‘pale’ is associated with death (foreshadowing what is to happen later on in the text)
“the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair , as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen”
interpretation:
Jekyll no longer controls Hyde’s appearance, and Jekyll’s sudden transformation causes extreme physical reactions from Utterson and Enfield
technique:
‘smile was struck’ - sibilance
‘smile’- is a gentle image, and its removed forcefully an violently ‘struck out’
‘succeeded’ - can be associated with the victory of evil , a clear balance between good and evil.
” the most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death”
interpretation:
Jekyll’s description of his transformation to Hyde is both gruesomely painful, but also alludes to something disturbingly natural and powerful.
techniques:
‘racking pangs’ and ‘grinding’ - physical agony.
turning into Hyde is not just physically destructive but it also destroys the ‘spirt’ with his ‘horror’
“flame of anger”
adjective
images of violence, hell and anger
“ape like fury”
theme- duality of man
suggests that Hyde is less evolved
“unexpressed deformity”
sense of supernatural
less evolved
duality of man.
“ferocity”
adjective
images of violence
animalistic characteristics
fierce
