HYDE QUOTES Flashcards
” a strong feeling of deformity”
his physiognomy allows people to sense the malformations he carries.
“ape-like”
Hyde is given animalistic traits to reduce him to the most insignificant version of humans. upper class Victorians believed themselves to be the most advanced humans Darwin challenged their belief by claiming we all stemmed from the common ape
” with a flush of anger”
volatile, uncontrollable personality acts on impulse just like an animal. zoomorphism.
leaves Carew’s body “incredibly mangled”
intentionality behind violence. shows sheer anger he had felt as well as his undeniable strength and how he feels shockingly no apparent guilt.
” shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
compared to a snake. snake=deceitful, evil animal exactly what Hyde is perceived to be
“seizing, surprising and revolting”
triadic structure to emphasise the horrific nature of Hyde. He captures attention for the wrong reasons and only leaves you with disgust.
“savage laugh”
brutal and unhinged, villainous yet not a human at the same time
“damned juggernaut”
hugely overwhelming destructive force
” a man who was without bowels of mercy”
one of the only times Hyde is referred to as a man. lacks all morality from within. old notion claims sympathetic emotions came from the bowels goes against this victorian idea
” so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running”
physical manifestation of evil, evokes disgust simply by looking at him. Hyde’s unnatural face causes unnatural actions on whoever sees him too
” his every act and thought centered on self”
so selfish aligns his further away form the brink of humanity. at the end Hyde wants to live but Jekyll desperately wants to die, Hyde is still selfish to want to live
“drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone”
hedonistic connotations of excessive drinking makes reader dsilike him more for his self-indulgence
bestial= savagely, of animal like
note Utterson a respectable man only drank gin a poor man’s drink and was austere with himself and not self-indulgent
“He had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
use of antithesis highlights inner conflict
alliteration could imply violence is an intrinsic behaviour
” not easy to describe. something wrong with his appearance, something downright detestable. I never a man so disliked yet I scarce know why”
Hyde’s description is so vague and unable to be defined in words provokes fear in characters and reader. use of ambiguity forces reader to imagine the worst in Hyde, invoke fear.
alliterative ‘d’ reinforces sense of repulsion, anaphoric repetition of ‘something’ creates an air of intangibility
“snarled aloud… with extraordinary quickness unlocked the door and disappeared”
snarled-unrestrained destruction
Hyde is almost supernatural
missing information and short descriptions are a classic gothic technique
