Jekyll and Hyde Flashcards

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Point for Hyde’s Character at the beginning of the novella.

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Mr. Hyde is presented as the embodiment of the devil and the embodiment of evil. Mr. Hyde is presented as significantly, yet undescribably ugly and off putting for everyone who encounters him. He is presented as something potentially supernatural and devilish.

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Evidence for Hyde’s Character at the beginning of the novella.

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‘Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.’

‘a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness.’

“Satan’s signature on his face.”

“Hissing intake of breath.”

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Point for Hyde’s Character in the middle of the novella.

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Mr. Hyde is presented as a more primitive and unpredictable man. Hyde is also presented as very dangerous and impulsive.

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Evidence for Hyde’s Character in the middle of the novella.

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“ape-like fury.”

“Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth.”

“One very much surprised.”

“Broke out in a flame of anger.”

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Point for Hyde’s Character at the end of the novella.

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Mr. Hyde is presented as a tool used for Jekyll’s satisfaction. He is also presented as the never-ending prescence of jekyll’s darker side and not a true human.

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Evidence for Hyde’s Character at the end of the novella.

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“my evil […] was Edward Hyde.”

“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.”

“I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome.”

“I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural.”

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Point for Reputation in the beginning of the novella.

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Reputation is presented as a thing that everyone was very greatly concerned with and a very powerful thing.

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Evidence for Reputation in the beginning of the novella.

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“The more it looks like Queer street, the less I ask.”

“Their Sunday walks, that they said nothing.”

“Make his name stink from one end of London to the other.”

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Point for Reputation in the middle of the novella.

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Reputation is presented as something that is very easy to lose very quickly.

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Evidence for Reputation in the middle of the novella.

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“If it came to trial, your name might appear.”

“Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds.”

“A great curiousity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were strict obligations.”

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Point for Reputation in the end of the novella.

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Reputation is presented as a thing that enables more freedom and very dependent on wealth and good looks.

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Evidence for Reputation in the end of the novella.

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“fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men.”

“I was born […] to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts.”

Such irregularities as I was guilty of […] I regarded them and hid them with a morbid sense of shame.”

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Point for Secrecy in the beginning of the novella.

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Secrecy is presented as a prominent, common thing that was often explored by gentlemen.

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Evidence for Secrecy in the beginning of the novella.

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“No gentlemen but wishes to avoid a scene…Name your figure.”

“Blackmail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.”

“Mr. Utterson was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.”

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Point for Secrecy in the middle of the novella.

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Secrecy is presented as portrayed through the setting and an easy thing to pull off.

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Evidence for Secrecy in the middle of the novella.

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“Windows barred with iron.”

“Dingy windowless structure.”

“Indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting-rooms.”

“On the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.”

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Point for Secrecy in the end of the novella.

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Secrecy is presented as something that was used in order to protect others.

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Evidence for Secrecy in the end of the novella.

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“I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession.”

“The pleasures which I have made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term […] they soon began to turn towards the monstrous.”

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Point for Jekyll’s Character in the beginning of the novella.

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Dr. Jekyll is presented as a respectable gentleman. He is presented as a fairly typical Victorian gentleman who is a very sensible and professional man. He has an honest and friendly appearance.

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Evidence for Jekyll’s Character in the beginning of the novella.

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“A large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty.”

‘Every mark of capacity and kindness.’

“Well known and highly considered.”

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Point for Jekyll’s Character in the middle of the novella.

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Jekyll is presented as having something to hide as he is presented as very suspicious due to his mysterious connection to Mr. Hyde. This mystery grows greater as the connection seems to be more than meets the eye. He has become unpredictable and is less sociable.

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Evidence for Jekyll’s Character in the middle of the novella.

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“I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man.”

“I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again.”

“The two hands are in many points identical.”

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Point for Jekyll’s Character in the end of the novella.

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Jekyll is presented as a confused man who is very secretive and ungentlemanly. He has desires that do not conform to societal regulations. He also is presented as the better side of Mr. Hyde. He is also presented as suffering from depression, as he falls victim to Mr. Hyde and eventually kills himself.

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Evidence for Jekyll’s Character in the end of the novella.

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“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”

“I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome.”

“I was not alarmed, the fall seemed natural.”

“Profound duplicity of life.”

“Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.”

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Point for Utterson’s Character in the beginning of the novella.

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Mr. Utterson is a plain man who does not have much about him. He is relatively well off as a lawyer and represents a sense of duplicity, as despite his profound dullness, he is well liked.

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Evidence for Utterson’s Character in the beginning of the novella.

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‘Never lighted by a smile.’

‘cold, scanty, and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary.’

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Point for Utterson’s Character in the middle of the novella.

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He is presented as the perfect Victorian gentleman. Despite his worries about Jekyll, he does not spread this information and reamains true to his friend. When he discovers that the letter has been forged, he does not report it to the police.

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Evidence for Utterson’s Character in the middle of the novella

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‘His blood ran cold in his veins.’

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”

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Point for Utterson’s Character in the end of the novel.

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Utterson is presented as a detective, as he uses his skills to question and uncover evidence such as Lanyon’s statement and Jekyll’s confession. He shows his complete devotion to decorum and reason as he represents all of Victorian society as, even right at the end, he is still looking for a reason to leave Jekyll be and to not interfere with his life.

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Evidence for Utterson’s Character in the end of the novel.

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“It doesn’t commend itself to reason.”

‘Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.’