JEKYLL QUOTES Flashcards
ape….
like fury
a large
well made smooth faced man
imperious
desire to hold my head high
I con……
I concealed my pleasures
the pleasures
which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said undignified
in the ag…..
in the agonising womb of consciousness these polar twins stuggled
like a…..
thick clock
it was…
Hyde alone that was guilty
analysis of ‘ape like fury’ and ‘troglodytic’
the similie ape like fury and the adjective troglodytic - lexicon of atavistic regression
hyde represents the animalsistic part of the physche
describing hyde as tr…..
troglodytic
analysis of a large well made smooth faced man
Jekyll is the respectable social face of the psyche
smooth face could symbolise a mask - motif of the mask through the novella
analysis of …these polar twins struggle
how inside all of us there is a struggle between the id and the ego
analysis of wore Hyde like a thick cloak (context point)
Stevenson is exploring the moral questions associated with platos ring of Gyges; Hyde essentially allows him to become invisible and the simile comparing him wearing Hyde like a thick cloak suggests like the ring of Gyges which granted invisibility Hyde allowed Jekyll to sin without society’s judgement. He asserts that it was Hyde alone who was guilty although as an unreliable narrator the reader is invited to judge Jekyll
evil was …
written broadly and plainly on the face
this too was…..
myself. It seemed natural and human