Illness & suffering Flashcards
Suffering Hyde causes - I&S
Carew murder case - “clubbed him to the earth” - vivid, graphic descriptions of violence unnerve the audience.
Trampling of the girl - “a girl of maybe eight or ten”
“the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground” - remorseless
He had a “song upon his lips” when he “mauled” Carew, this especially showing that he is remorseless to the violent acts he does
Lanyon - I&S
“death warrent written legibly on his face”
“the rosy man had grown pale”
Audience unnerved by “deep-seated terror of the mind” description
Vast departure from his “happy, hearty” self - now “the rosy man had grown pale” - unimaginable horror
Lanyon’s death is a moral point about the wrongness of Jekyll’s actions - against nature
“you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this” - a moral lesson not only to utterson but also to the readers
rapid decline “something less than a fortnight he was dead”
Why L began to suffer
Addiciton - I&S
Because it is so unnatural he is being punished in a way as H should not exist
J begins to believe being H is wrong - “for two months i led a life of such severity as i had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience” - however he cant repress this part of himself anymore “i began to be tortured with throes and longings”
“racking pangs”
Jekyll’s death - I&S
To get rid of the illness and suffering he has inflicted on the world and the people around him he has to commit suicide - will be suffering forever in hell after that but it has to happen in order to put J out of suffering.
“If i am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” - either way he is in his life - whether its in his “just” form or “Injust” form - he is suffering, and this is especially due to his involvement with H.
“Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.”
