HYDE QUOTES Flashcards
Stumping…
down the road
like a…
juggernaut
calmly…
trampling over the young girl and left her screaming on the ground
hyde….
snarled aloud into a savage laugh
mr hyde shrank…
shrank back with a hissing intake of breath
if ever…
I read satans signature upon a face
pale and…
dwarfish
murderous….
mixture of timidity and boldness
analysis of stumping down the road
stumping- deformed , angry intense dangerous
heavy footed- destructive
‘down the road’- is a normal activity shows his presence is above life- devil
analysis of like a juggernsught
not human- above the other characters, acts like an evil machine - unstoppable force
analysis of calmly trampled
the oxymoron shows that acts of violence come naturally to hyde
‘left her’ - hyde has no remorse, hyde is a cold and soulless character and simply doesn’t care
aural imagery of screaming- his presence and his acts of evil inspires fear and post traumatic emotions
analysis of shrank back with a hissing intake of breath
relates him to a snake- unnatural, inhuman character
hissing- like a serpent/snake- the biblical allusion shows evil in Christianity, serpent is the devil, representation of a helish creature
the man seems hardly…….
human, something troglodytic
hellish…
to hear
like…
satan
analysis of hellish to hear and like satan
‘hellish’- his mere speech is unbearable
hellish and satan- connotes hellish ideas, he is like the devil - Victorian England was Christian, so the biblical allusion of hyde being described as as satan incites fear and hatred into the audience
bones…
shattered audibly
analysis of bones shattered audibly
aural imagery– emphasises force and violence—-hyde is an outsider to jekylls persona
ape like fury analysis
Stevenson is presenting hyde in terms of atavistic regression the notion of devolution, or returning back to primal or animal state
