j Flashcards
cry out upon the name of god- j behind the door
calling to god- ultimate source of wisdom, needs help, needs protection from alter ego, uncontrollable nature of h, understand he committed hubristic act
old and commonplace as man
everyone can relate to conflict within and desires and ambition, no thrill of being normal, wanted excitement in life, can relate, everyone has this in them
leaping impulses and secret pleasures
hubris and arrogance, pulse- cannot control, unconscious instinct, he misses not having to control his urges, liked at first having dual sides, secrecy
lust of evil
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juxtaposition, associated with love, despair action to get thrill from evil, secrecy side to jeykll, not do respectable
large, well made, smooth- faced man of fifty…every mark of capacity and kindness
foreshadows- flawless exterior, bleak consequences of repression, irony on barbaric side, umblemlished facade, social performance, suppress desires, paradoxical- artificial, manufactured, concealing true nature, archetype of respectable gentleman, mark and kind- stain on moratility- foreshadows, exaplins why utterson had affinity to j
i am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of sufferers also
biblical allusion- acknowledges subject to divine condemnation, accountable to gods judgement, society will turn to religion, internal struggles, battle with desires and social expectations, inner termoil - science v religion, despite rise of science god was insecapable, alliteration- blur lines, intertwined, respectable gentlemen - immoral, hypocrisy
clothes of the doctors
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symbolic : superficial, only that is left of him, moral j was disguised by hiding dark reality of hyde, metaphor, once respected, mourn loss, replaced with cruel and callous counterpart
agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling
made egregious mistake by attempting to separate, character is powerful allegory of good v evil, challenges that duality is evil or just part of humans, womb- place creation, inextricable duality in humans, satirises victorian’s belief to remove it, has at moment of creation
i now felt i had to choose
moral dilemma, doesn’t have to do what’s wrong, concious decision, he’s to blame- knows it so kills himself, consequences, honest-respect
he would play me
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what’s its done to him, passive recipient, victim, within him- hence decision to kill bothh, he has control, 2 different people, own force of evil, no accountability for h, dissociated himself
great effort as of gymnastics… to wear the countable of jekyll
jekyll concously struggling because of hyde, trying to resist- sympathy, has to use potion, facade he ahs to put on, more natural to be hyde now
i preferred the elderly and discontented doctor
paradox, had friends but not his true self, understand- no thrill, moral- put reputation first
farewell to the liberty
breaking out of all bounds, freedom to do what he wants, not moral in society , but not he has to respectable and out facade on
door was shut + saw no one
motif of secrey, mystery, v didn’t like change, H represented society- didn’t like instability in society, isolation, ominous, foreboding, desire to conceal secrets
open air + open and bright (j face )
openness of personality, respectability, morality, happiness, physiognomy
