✅Hyde Flashcards
“Strong feeling of deformity”
Hyde’s physiognomy convicts him as a criminal.
“Ape like”
Describes Hyde’s Animalistic qualities
“With a flush of anger”
Shows Hyde’s volatile personality
Leaves Carew “incredibly mangled”
Shows the intentionality behind Hyde’s violence
“Shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
Characterising Hyde as animalistic
“The creature”
Characterising Hyde as animalistic
“Seizing, surprising and revolting”
Demonstrates how horrific and disgusting Hyde is.
“Damned Juggernaut”
Demonstrates Hyde’s overwhelming destructive force.
“A man who was without bowels of mercy”
Alliterative “w” shows how difficult it is to articulate Hyde as a character as he lacks all conventional morals.
“So ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running”
Hyde’s evil evokes disgust only at sight.
“His every act and thought centred on self”
Hyde is so selfish further aligns him with animals.
“Drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.”
The hedonistic connotations of excessive drinking further cause the reader to dislike Ahmed for his indulgence.
“He had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
Use of antithesis highlights the internal conflicts within the character.
“Something wrong with his appearance; something downright detestable”
The use of ambiguity evokes fear in the characters and reader.
“Something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of this creature”
Differentiates Hyde from all other beings.
