j and h Flashcards
quotes from jekyll
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind,” (Lanyon about Jekyll)
“The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and there came a blackness about his eyes”
“Like some disconsolate prisoner”.
“Pale and shaken and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored for death-there stood Henry Jeykll”.
“i ever read Satan’s signature upon a face; it is on that of your new friend”
Hyde has been stamped by the devil - seal of approval
Bound to evil forever
Juxtaposition shows how Utterson suspects something is wrong with this situation between Jekyll and Hyde.
Christian reader - Hyde is so evil, they cannot describe him
“a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you”
Lanyon gets told this by Hyde
Original sin - Hyde trying to tempt Lanyon into science
Christian audience - see this as empty promises. Sees Lanyon as a role-model for resisting science at all costs. Better to be in heaven.
Stevenson creates Lanyon out of disgust - sees Lanyon giving up on life as ridiculous as Stevenson had been fighting for life with tuberculosis.
“there would stand a figure to whom power was given and… he must rise and do his bidding”
Utterson’ dreaming of Jekyll in his bed and Hyde by his bed
Utterson may be jealous of a homosexual relationship between Jekyll and Hyde
Utterson may think that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll. Blackmailing with his homosexuality -ruin reputation.
“I wouldn’t speak of this note, you know”
Jekyll gave Utterson a letter from Hyde saying he’s disappearing - Mr Guest sees this letter is written by Jekyll.
Utterson believes Jekyll is now hiding a murderer - hypocrisy from Utterson as he doesn’t go to the police when he is a lawyer.
A victorian reader would understand this hypocrisy from Utterson in order to maintain Jekyll’s reputation in society.
Stevenson my use this to question the law and therefore the 1885 act that outlawed homosexuality by calling it a ‘gross indecency’.
“If i am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”
By creating Hyde to complete Jekylls desires, he has gone against God. If Jekyll has done bad - murder- he has also suffered for his sins.
“ape-like fury”
“audibly shattered”
Primitive nature of Hyde - Darwin’s theory of evolution.
You can hear the bones break - no human is capable of this
“The streets shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest”
Shows the class divide in London
Simile used to emphasise
“I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”
Cain- son of Adam, killed his brother Abel
Utterson makes an allusion to the Bible, emphasising, perhaps, his own sense of guilt that he does not do enough to help Dr. Jekyll avoid his sad fate.
Hypocrisy of Utterson - doesn’t get involved until its too late - lawyer
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body”
Jekyll describes how Hyde gives him a sense of freedom. It could reference Evolution and how Hyde is less developed because he is smaller and younger.
“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory”
Image of peace - the peace and pleasure he feels when Hyde does these horrible things in immense.
Image of being on holiday
Images of an animal licking its lips after a meal
The Juggernaut in Jekyll and Hyde
Connotes the pagan god Jagannath from Hinduism. In a ritual, Jagannath would be placed in a wheel and roll over many devotes willingly stretched over the road beneath. Hyde is embodied as the God and rolls over his victims.
Promotes Hyde as a person with such power that people will sacrifice themselves for - Jekyll
Stevenson as an athiest
Resided in the pagan country of Samoa
“The last good influence in the lives of downgoing men”
People who have done wrong can still call on him for help.
He actively tried to help people who are falling in society - ‘influence’
Victorian gentleman - helpful and charitable
“Where Utterson was liked, he was well liked”
Liked in socieety - trusted - gentleman
