jekyll and hyde: respectability Flashcards
Victorian gentlemen
Important figure of society- behave repress avoid ego
benefits
can enter well payed rich clients
contacts for children’s marriage and jobs
features
upper social class
lawyers or doctors
strong korals
Utterson respectability
worried about jekyll reputation more than trying to get hyde to court
The hand
a symbol of respectability and honour invaded by freeflowing air unrestrained free
if it came to trial
your name might appear - utterson to jekyll
I had been safe of
all men’s respect- Jekyll
Make his name
stink from one end of london to the other- Enfield
Like a
school boy- Makes jekyll seem childish
if he be mr hyde
i shall be mr seek- utterson
windows barred
with iron - Jekyll keeps secrets
on the hearth
there lay a pile of grey ashes as though many papers had been burned - Hyde destroyed evidence
Gossip destroys appearance
facades and surfaces
