J&H Character/theme- Points/quotes Flashcards
MR HYDE
compared to an animal-‘with ape like fury’ + ‘troglodyte’
Creates strong feelings of hatred and unease- ‘deformity’ + ‘dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips’
Uncontrollable- ‘broke out in a great flame of anger’
DR JEKYLL
Cannot withstand societies pressures and deceitful- ‘red baize’
Jekyll never presented as pure good- Lanyon “he is wrong- wrong in mind’, Utterson “he is a man that does good”
Enjoyment when indulging Hyde- ‘schoolboy’+’sea of liberty’
UTTERSON
serious, reputuable and stict with himself-‘a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile’
Ideal gentlemen and tolerant- ‘inclined to help rather than reprove’
Curious - ‘digging’ at the problem, ‘enslaved’ to curiosity’
DUALITY OF MAN
duality on the street- ‘sordid negligence’
Weather reflects duality- ‘chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven’
Hiding duality- ‘red baize’
Cannot survive duality-‘ dreadful shipwreck’
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
different approaches to science- lanyon (material world of science)- ‘unscientific balderdash’
Jekyll -‘mystic and transcendental’
Science is unsettling- ‘my soul sickened at it’+’some white salt’+’reddish hue’
Jekyll science goes against religion -‘chief of sufferers’
SECRECY
Pathetic fallacy- ‘fog rolled over the city’
Locked doors as symbols - SMASHING DOWN DOORS and witness transformation at window ‘abject terror and despair’
Utterson 3rd person narrative- revealed in parts