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J+H Flashcards

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Furtive (sly)

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Hyde as furtive

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Truculent(ready to fight,cruel)

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Hyde as truculent ‘broke out of all bounds’

‘ill-contained impatience’

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Forbearance (restraint,patience)

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Forbearance and repression in VL

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Egregious(extremely bad)

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Hyde and his actions as egregious

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Trepidation (fear)

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Poole feels trepidation

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Opprobrium (shameful act, public act of disgrace)

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Hyde killing Carew is seen as an extreme opprobrium

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Irascible (quickly angered)

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Hyde as irascible ‘ill-contained impatience’

‘Broke out of all bounds’

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Irreverence (disrespect)

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Hyde shows irreverence to Carew

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Impertinent (rude)

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Hyde as impertinent

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Ineffable (can’t be talked about, abject)

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The Carew murder as ineffable ‘in which the deed had been done’

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Affable (friendly)

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Jekyll, Utterson and other Victorian gentlemen as affable to maintain a respectable reputation

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Mendacious (false, lying character)

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Both jekyll and Hyde as mendacious

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Perspicacious (quickly aware of someone’s personality and situation)

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Utterson as perspicacious when he easily surmises Hyde’s character as mendacious

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Misanthrope (hating and distrusting mankind)

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Hyde as a misanthrope

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Petulant conduct (rude manner)

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Hyde has a petulant conduct

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Didactic (intends to teach something)

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J+H is a didactic novel which illustrates the dual nature of man

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Perdition (loss of the soul,hell)

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Jekyll ends up in perdition due to his other self

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Debauched (transgressive, sinful)

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Lower class (soho) was known to have debauched living standards

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Stratified society

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A clear split between upper and lower class

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Incongruous duality

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Disorderly, unharmonised dual nature of man

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Inexplicable depravity of society

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Stevenson illustrates the inexplicable depravity of society (the unexplainable corruption)

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Pious (context)

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Victorian audience were very pious

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Evil endowed in Hyde

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Evil is innate in him, has been woven into him, unfixable

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Reader feels repugnance and abhorrence from Hyde’s callous actions

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‘The bones were audibly shattered’

Creates visceral disgust

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