jᥱkყᥣᥣ & hყdᥱ Flashcards
“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”
-> repression
-> demonstrates moral code of Victorian gentlemen
-> repression
-> demonstrates moral code of Victorian gentlemen
“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”
“displeasing”, “disliked”, “deformed”
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> instantly see Hyde as evil due to his appearance
-> negative prefixes, alliterative (dental)
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> instantly see Hyde as evil due to his appearance
-> negative prefixes, alliterative (dental)
“displeasing”, “disliked”, “deformed”
“all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church”
-> dominant theme of Christianity
-> absence of religious belief and rejection of God through similie
-> light illuminates evil - antithesis
“a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”
-> metaphorically depicting how Hyde took control over Jekyll
-> alliterative compound adjective depicting the conditions of Soho
-> “pall” - connotations with funerals and implies dominance of Christianity
-> metaphorically depicting how Hyde took control over Jekyll
-> alliterative compound adjective depicting the conditions of Soho
-> “pall” - connotations with funerals and implies dominance of Christianity
“a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”
“I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him” // “this will make a great deal of noise”
-> Hyde influences people to forsake Victorian conventions
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> reinforces Stevenson’s argument of duality by giving minor characters two sides as well as major characters
-> Hyde influences people to forsake Victorian conventions
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> reinforces Stevenson’s argument of duality by giving minor characters two sides as well as major characters
“I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him” // “this will make a great deal of noise”
“red-faced”, “flushing suddenly purple”, “the rosy man had grown pale”
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy), so Lanyon expresses himself through his appearance - paleness association with Hyde “sick and white”, “pale and dwarfish”, “grown pale”
-> Lanyon is an embodiment of Christian and Victorian values
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy), so Lanyon expresses himself through his appearance - paleness association with Hyde “sick and white”, “pale and dwarfish”, “grown pale”
-> Lanyon is an embodiment of Christian and Victorian values
“red-faced”, “flushing suddenly purple”, “the rosy man had grown pale”
“such unscientific balderdash […] would have estranged Damon and Pythias”
-> “balderdash” - contemporary noun
-> uses a Greek legend to reinforce rift between him and Jekyll
-> Lanyon values reason and integrity, suggesting that Jekyll is unconventional
-> “balderdash” - contemporary noun
-> uses a Greek legend to reinforce rift between him and Jekyll
-> Lanyon values reason and integrity, suggesting that Jekyll is unconventional
“such unscientific balderdash […] would have estranged Damon and Pythias”
“shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
-> onomatopoeic reference to a snake - association with sin, Garden of Eden, Hyde embodies temptation
-> Hyde is described with animalistic verbs
-> onomatopoeic reference to a snake - association with sin, Garden of Eden, Hyde embodies temptation
-> Hyde is described with animalistic verbs
“shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
-> sibilance
-> Hyde is the embodiment of evil and its displayed on his features (physiognomy)
-> religious imagery
-> possessive pronoun - Satan owns Hyde
-> sibilance
-> Hyde is the embodiment of evil and its displayed on his features (physiognomy)
-> religious imagery
-> possessive pronoun - Satan owns Hyde
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
“an ignorant, blatant pedant”
-> repetition of the word pedant (within the text, not this specific quote)
-> Jekyll views Lanyon’s rigid morals, traditional views and inability to accept unconventional scientific ideas as a major flaw and waste of his potential - “I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon”
-> repetition of the word pedant (within the text, not this specific quote)
-> Jekyll views Lanyon’s rigid morals, traditional views and inability to accept unconventional scientific ideas as a major flaw and waste of his potential - “I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon”
“an ignorant, blatant pedant”
“the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”
-> dramatic irony
-> parallel rhythm reflects Stevenson’s argument of duality
-> dramatic irony
-> Stevenson’s argument of duality
“the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”
“he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> metaphor of Lanyon’s death being visible and inevitable like a legal document
-> severity of his death reflected through the contrast to “red-faced”
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> metaphor of Lanyon’s death being visible and inevitable like a legal document
-> severity of his death reflected through the contrast to “red-faced”
“he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”
“if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God’s name, go”
-> using religion as an output, unconventional and appears much more severe to a contemporary audience
-> Lanyon, the embodiment of religious morality, has been so heavily influenced by Hyde that he has lost sense of the strict rules he once obliged to
-> using religion as an output, unconventional and appears much more severe to a contemporary audience
-> Lanyon, the embodiment of religious morality, has been so heavily influenced by Hyde that he has lost sense of the strict rules he once obliged to
“if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God’s name, go”
“very irregular, very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased”
-> distinction of class emphasised through semi-colon
-> Utterson, an austere lawyer, chastises the servants who “stood huddled together like a flock of sheep” (similie) yet comforted Poole as he is the head of the servants and is of higher status
-> Poole is subservient to Utterson yet controlling of his servants (“Hold your tongue!”)
-> distinction of class emphasised through semi-colon
-> Utterson, an austere lawyer, chastises the servants who “stood huddled together like a flock of sheep” (similie) yet comforted Poole as he is the head of the servants and is of higher status
-> Poole is subservient to Utterson yet controlling of his servants (“Hold your tongue!”)
“very irregular, very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased”
“has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?”
-> interrogative rhetorical questions
-> Hyde embodying temptation and tempting even the strictest moral character to give into morbid curiosity (oxymorons ‘disgustful curiosity’ and ‘sombre excitement’)
-> Lanyon succumbing to temptation results in his demise
-> interrogative rhetorical questions
-> Hyde embodying temptation and tempting even the strictest moral character to give into morbid curiosity (oxymorons ‘disgustful curiosity’ and ‘sombre excitement’)
-> Lanyon succumbing to temptation results in his demise
“has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?”
“professional in shape and size” - “swart growth of hair”
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> involuntary transformation reflected through appearance, shifting of power and Stevenson’s view of duality
-> Victorian belief that physical characteristics reflect the mind within (physiognomy)
-> involuntary transformation reflected through appearance, shifting of power and Stevenson’s view of duality
“professional in shape and size” - “swart growth of hair”
“unresisting”, “lust”, “gratified”, “stimulated”
-> a biased, arguably sexualised description of Hyde’s immoral enjoyment of killing
-> implication of madness through noun “delirium”
-> this view would be shocking for a contemporary reader
-> a biased, arguably sexualised description of Hyde’s immoral enjoyment of killing
-> implication of madness through noun “delirium”
-> this view would be shocking for a contemporary reader
“unresisting”, “lust”, “gratified”, “stimulated”
Did Hyde kill one person, or two?
Two - Sir Danvers Carew directly, and Dr Lanyon indirectly
“lifted his clasped hands to God”
-> seeks religious penitence, as was common of Victorians - being conventional, foreshadows Jekyll’s choice to be rid of Hyde and become moral once more
-> loss of control of Jekyll
-> seeks religious penitence, as was common of Victorians - being conventional, foreshadows Jekyll’s choice to be rid of Hyde and become moral once more
-> loss of control of Jekyll
“lifted his clasped hands to God”
“He, I say - I cannot say I. That child of Hell had nothing human”
-> crucial shift in Jekyll’s narrative - pronouns highlight how he is distancing himself from Hyde
-> “child of Hell” - religious condemnation, possessive phrase to indicate how Hyde is owned by Hell
-> crucial shift in Jekyll’s narrative - pronouns highlight how he is distancing himself from Hyde
-> “child of Hell” - religious condemnation, possessive phrase to indicate how Hyde is owned by Hell
“He, I say - I cannot say I. That child of Hell had nothing human”
“I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide”
-> Jekyll arguably holds ultimate power over Hyde
-> referring to Hyde in the third person - separation from evil
-> Stevenson’s view of duality and how good and evil must co-exist, one cannot exist without the other
-> Jekyll arguably holds ultimate power over Hyde
-> referring to Hyde in the third person - separation from evil
-> Stevenson’s view of duality and how good and evil must co-exist, one cannot exist without the other
“I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide”
“younger”, “lighter”, “happier” - “something strange in my sensations […] incredibly sweet”
-> triplet of superlatives free Jekyll from “the bonds of obligation” - the argument that the Victorian social code is constraining would be shocking to the contemporary reader (first quote)
-> sibilance describes the bliss felt by Jekyll to be free (second quote)
-> triplet of superlatives free Jekyll from “the bonds of obligation” - the argument that the Victorian social code is constraining would be shocking to the contemporary reader (first quote)
-> sibilance describes the bliss felt by Jekyll to be free (second quote)
“younger”, “lighter”, “happier” - “something strange in my sensations […] incredibly sweet”
