Jekyll and Hyde Flashcards
What is physiognomy?
Lombrosso-a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.
What is troglodytic?
A primitive, prehistoric cave dweller.
What made upper class people nervous and what did it cause?
Increased influx of working class people flooding into the city made them worried as they were outnumbered. They almost divided the city making some areas they would go to and some areas they would not go to. This division of the city was interesting as it created an other side of London. Rich lived in West, Soho was in East.
What were shilling shockers?
Shocking stories aimed at rich people for entertainment which were about stories to do with the poorer people. About poorer people. Caused a stir as it was about richer people. Typical for poor people to partake in immoral things like prostitution but for rich people it was shocking.
What is an allegory?
A story with a hidden meaning. Has to be obvious.
What type of tale is Jekyll and Hyde?
Morality.
What happened with science and medicine at this time?
Many body dissections to learn about anatomy. First transplants carried out. Mad scientist like John Hunter, stuck a tooth on chicken head to see if it would grow.
What genre is the novella?
Gothic.
What is Stevenson’s comment always about?
The society in which they live.
Where was RLS born?
Edinburgh.
What was the problems with his childhood?
Extremely ill and would be taught at home.
What was most of the childhood raising done by?
Nanny called Allison Cunningham.
What was the nanny like?
Strict Christian, taught him about the devil.
What were his nightmares like?
Left him ‘clinging to the horizontal bars of the bed with my knees and chin together my soul shaken’.
What were the two lives RLS was living?
On one hand, up and coming engineer, in reality he wanted to be a writer something his father discouraged.
Prostitutes?
Looked down on and RLS was friends with many.
RLS duality.
Lived double life so links with story.
Duality and setting.
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood”.
What does “The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood” show?
Shows the duality between two sides, symbolism of Jekyll and Hyde. Adjective Dingy contrasts to past verb shone which symbolises duality. Diversity in Victorian London.
What does Libertine mean jekyll and Hyde.
A person who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.
What does Hedonistic mean?
Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure.
How does Lanyon portray Jekylls science?
“Fancifull”,”Wrong minded”,”Unscientific balderdash”.
What did people originally believe?
That god created the universe.
When and what did Charles Darwin do?
Wrote the origins of the species in 1859.
How does Stevenson show scientific development through Jekyll?
He is relentless in his goals to complete the experiment of releasing his hidden self. He stops at nothing to archive this.
Utterson quote.
“Dusty, dreary yet somehow loveable”
What does Dusty, dreary yet somehow loveable” show.
Juxtaposition which shows how old fashioned he is which makes it so he cannot think outside the box and solve the mystery. Even he has two sides and this is established early. Perfect Victorian gentlemen who is caring but impersonal.
Utterson motto.
“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”
What does “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” show?
He is unjudgmental and allows others to sin and doesnt make judgements. Very good character so the audience can make the judgements. Noun brother shows loyalty.
Oxymoron.
“Trampled calmly”
