Hyde Flashcards
How is Hyde’s murder of Carew described at the beginning of Chapter 4
“a crime of singular ferocity”
- Violence
- Animalistic
How is Hyde described by the maid in Chapter 4
“a very small gentleman”
- Reputation
“she had conceived a dislike”
- Secrecy
“and seemed to listen with an ill contained impatience”
- Nature
How is Hyde’s attack described by the maid in Chapter 4
“all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on … like a madman”
- Violence
“Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth … with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered”
- Animalistic
- Nature
- Violence
How is Hyde’s attack described in Chapter 1
“One a little man who was stumping along”
- Reputation
“Trampled calmly … but it was hellish to see”
- Evil
“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut”
- Evil
How is Hyde’s evil nature shown through physical reactions in Chapter 1
Enfield recalls that he was “so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running”
- Physical reactions to evil
What does Enfield say about his first impression of Hyde in Chapter 1
“I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight”
How is Hyde’s ability to elicit physical reactions within people shown by the doctor in Chapter 1
The “Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him”
How is Hyde’s animalistic traits portrayed in Chapter 1
“A kind of black sneering coolness”
How does the maid describe how Hyde leaves his victim in Chapter 4
“incredibly mangled”
What is the metaphor of Jekyll and Hyde and a cane in Chapter 4
Cane broken under “insensate cruelty”
How is described in Chapter 4
“Particularly small and particularly wicked looking”
How is Hyde’s evilness shown in the people he surrounds himself with Chapter 4
His housekeeper has an “evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy”
How are hyde’s habits described in Chapter 4
“irregular”
How is Hyde’s gentlemanly taste shown in his house in Chapter 4
Utterson says he had “good taste” in furniture
Approval
How is Hyde’s deformity shown at the end of Chapter 4
“haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders”
