jekyll and hyde- Utterson Flashcards
Character
lawyer
Introduced as
reserved cold dull drinks alone doesn’t engage in gossip
didn’t engage with emotions- ‘sane and customary side of life’
Gentleman
austere and strict with himself
drinks to ‘mortify taste for vintages’
drinks alone to relive pleasure
2 faced- transcendental
described with oxymorons cold adjectives to contrast the hint of loveable
repressed emotions- victorian restraint - criticism of victorian expectation to hide emotion to appeal in society
a man of
rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile 1
cold scanty and embarrassed in discourse ; backwards in sentiment:
lean long dusty dreary and yet somehow loveable 1
the last
good influence in the lives of down goung men
i shall consider it my duty
to break in that door