Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - LANGUAGE

Question 1

Why is the narrative formal?

Answer 1

• written in Victorian era

- reflective/ symbolic of Mr Utterson’s character

Question 2

Why isn’t the description of Sir Danvers Carew’s more graphic?

Answer 2

Censorship

Question 3

Why is Hyde’s brutality presented formally?

Answer 3

Symbolises that under civilised, formal society, there is uncivilised and primitive side

Question 4

Why is there use of personification, and give two examples

Answer 4

• to add menacing, eerie feel to places + objects
• ’in every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence’ - laboratory has emotions + human body - capable of feeling neglected
• ’cab crawled’ - everything burdened and depressed

Question 5

Why is figurative language (eg. Metaphors + similes) used to describe Hyde?

Answer 5

To capture horror he conveys - many characters lost for words when they see him

Question 6

Give an example of a simile used to describe Hyde’s strength

Answer 6

’it was like some damned Juggernaut’ - anyone confronted by him are helpless to his brute force, inhumanity, unstoppable

Question 7

How else is Hyde usually presented?

Answer 7

Animalistic connotations - ’ape-like’ - scientific allusion to Darwin’s theory