extraz Flashcards
Who is presented as morally corrupt?
Utterson, Enfield, Hyde all presented as morally corrupt so he presents hypocrisy of middle class people but mainly men, these are main characters
How does scientific knowledge link to hypocrisy?
Throughout time, readers see how a thirst ofr scientific knowledge underpins hypocrisy and quality
How does John hunter link to Dr Jekyll?
John Hunter and Dr Jekyll both have renowned house where the secrets lie
Stevenson was inspired by the rea life events carrioed out by the surgeon John Hunter
How does Hyde link to the resurrection men?
Hyde only enters through the back links to the resurrection men who brought bodies to back dorrs
Back doors are hidden away
Clear parrallel betweeen john hunter bgetting bodies and hyde entering
Jekylls house quote
Jeky;;s house “Great air of wealth and comfort”
Back of house
air of “Prolonged and sordid negligence”
How did the industrial revolution cause duality
ndustrial revoluitiono and people were becoming exponentially wealthy on one end and really poor on the other end, duality with a contrast between wealth and poverty
Wealth does not mean that they are good people, this is seen in an inspector calls aswell
What does facade mean
on surfac3e you see wealth power and glammar but there is such a clear hypocrisy
Quote to show enfuield was up to no good
“Coming home from some place at the of the world, about three o’clock of a blac kwinter morning”
Explain “Coming home from some place at the of the world, about three o’clock of a blac kwinter morning”
Intentional that Stevenson has not specified what he hasd been doing so the reader can hypotheriss to imagine how the middle class can behave immorally
At the end of the world could be a judgement day, in a place where we would expect sins to be committed, hointed that he has been sinning, synonymous with religion, heavily implied that Mr Enflield had been sionning although the infomration about the specific sin is withheld
Not drunk so waht he has done was on purpose
Black links to evil and sinistr
winter makes him seem cold
Irony linked to Utterson beign a lawyer
Utterson is perfeclty happy not to reveal anay connectipo between Hyde and Jeky;; when sir danvers carew is murdred as he knows it was jekylls cane that did ity
Lawyers are symbols of justice and he hides a connection in a muirder os it is corrupt and hypocrticial
Utterson is complicit in the murder
two sides of london
“A sinister certain block of building”
Contrast to buildings with “An air of invitation”
ranks of mankind
Jekyll says Hyde is ‘alone in the ranks of mankind, pure evil’ (p. 61).
His evil lies in being entirely selfish: he will do whatever he wants to satisfy his own appetites without any regard for other people.
Jekyll good
Enfield describes Jekyll as ‘one of your fellows who do what they call good’ (p. 5).
When freed from his bad aspects, Jekyll works for charities, is religious, is a good friend and ‘he did good’ (p. 30).
Close line between good and evil
All human beings, as we meet them are commingled out of good and evil”
The verb “commingled” means a sense of closeness suggesting there isa thin line between good and evil
Body lying
..there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.
What does ..there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. show
This shows that Jekyll eventually killed himself as his desire to experiment made Mr Hyde get stronger. The use of the phrase ‘sorely contorted’ illustrates how science changed who Jekyll was and who he became. It ‘contorted’ his very self.
What are women excluded as
The main characters
What does he criticise women as
Criticizing women as being bloodthirsty and delighting in violence
Maid fainting
“Maid fainted” he is making fun of it, of course she did not faint, she has just put it in there
What would most readers be
Women as they had time
Audience or readers
READERS
Generalization of women presenting them all as alcoholics
“And many women of different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass”
Ivory faced women
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old women opened the door. She had an evil face, soothed by hypocrisy
What does
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old women opened the door. She had an evil face, soothed by hypocrisy
show
duality, but likening their behavior saying they are just as bad as the men. You can see the evil on her face but you cannot see it on Dr Jekyll, women are more symplistic and less cunnning and less intelligent.