Duality Flashcards
‘I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two’
- Big ‘discovery’ of the book - sense of finality and truth
- Lexical field of suffering - this is what the discovery has caused, reflective
‘I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself”
- Different reaction to Hyde’s appearance than anyone else - shows how far gone he is to evil when he’s Hyde
- Showing that he has multiple sides BUT these would normally be mixed - it feels natural because it is in some part him, but because good and evil are separated they are both much stronger
‘He had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself … with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’
Consistent juxtapositions associated with Hyde - ‘conniving smile’ = misleading and unsettling, allusions of uncertainty and duplicity
‘Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was engaged or rather enslaved’
Engaged and enslaved - gone beyond curiosity, can’t escape from it
Rationality and imagination becoming one - duality, affected by Hyde
‘A large well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps’
Juxtaposition between warm description and ‘sly’ - foreshadows something about Jekyll is not as it seems, Hyde associated with Juxtaposition
‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also’
Religious duality - hints at evils of Hyde, juxtaposition of good and evil
‘Agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins’
Paradox ‘polar twins’ - separate but the same, showing everyone has good and evil in them
