Hyde

Question 1

‘There was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me’

Answer 1

‘Abnormal’ and ‘misbegotten’ - Hyde is not usual, creates a feeling of alienation in people
‘Creature’ furthers this - less than human

Question 2

‘The man seems hardly human. Something troglodytic, shall we say?’

Answer 2

‘Troglodytic’ again something primal and animalistic in its evil, ‘hardly human’ alliteration emphasises instant separation from Hyde

Question 3

‘Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth’

Answer 3

‘Bounds’ - binds of morality, law and society - none of these apply to him
‘Clubbed’ - very violent, almost pre human verb
‘To the earth’ - highlights how violent and extreme this crime was, went further ‘than necessary’

Question 4

‘With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows’

Answer 4

‘Ape-like fury’ - extreme, animalistic, violent - no sense of what is right
Graphic imagery (‘trampling’ ‘hailing down’) - makes the reader very against Hyde

Question 5

‘Trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming’

Answer 5

Innocence associated with children - emphasises cruelty
oxymoron of ‘trampled calmly’ - disconcerting, didn’t even react to what he did
‘Left her’ - doesn’t help her, inhumane
‘Trampled’ and ‘screaming’ - very vivid imagery, vicious

Question 6

‘I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it’

Answer 6

Repetition + very simple sensory description - no eloquence can describe Hyde, he is pure evil + overwhelms you with the sense of it
‘Soul’ - everything about him is affected