jekyll and hyde Flashcards
large, well made, smooth- faced man of fifty…every mark of capacity and kindness
foreshadows- flawless exterior, bleak consequences of repression, irony on barbaric side, umblemlished facade, social performance, suppress desires, paradoxical- artificial, manufactured, concealing true nature, archetype of respectable gentleman, mark and kind- stain on moratility- foreshadows, exaplins why utterson had affinity to j
i am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of sufferers also
biblical allusion- acknowledges subject to divine condemnation, accountable to gods judgement, society will turn to religion, internal struggles, battle with desires and social expectations, inner termoil - science v religion, despite rise of science god was insecapable, alliteration- blur lines, intertwined, respectable gentlemen - immoral, hypocrisy
clothes of the doctors bigness
symbolic : superficial, only that is left of him, moral j was disguised by hiding dark reality of hyde, metaphor, once respected, mourn loss, replaced with cruel and callous counterpart
devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
societal repression, perpetuation suffering and toxic austerity, anamalistic, darwinism, primal, battle being society and human instincts, zoomorphism, degenerate desires, critique repression as creates anamalistic force, transmogrification as his pleasures were incoherent with expectations of society, forced into secrecy, lying respectable gentleman man??
agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling
made egregious mistake by attempting to separate, character is powerful allegory of good v evil, challenges that duality is evil or just part of humans, womb- place creation, inextricable duality in humans, satirises victorian’s belief to remove it, has at moment of creation
there’s something wrong with his appearance; something downright detestable
physiognomy, gothic, engages with debauchary more they decline, plosives alliteration- magnitude of h physical and moral inhumanity and depravigh, juxtaposes j-symbol of societal hypocrisy, immorality lurking behind polished victorian propriety, creates hyde, physical abnormalities indicated evil and not gods child
with ape-like fury he was trampling his victim
anamalistic; regression to primal, futility of repression instinctual, darwinism; confronted, unsettling concept that man came from anamalistic, contrsutced facade stripped bare
, fearful, csreless verb; rep, uncontrollable, inhumane manifestation of reckless and aggressive, ) lost control, hyde has to be so barbaric to gain back control lost
