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what extracts are used to present hyde in the beginning of the novel?

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  • ch.1 : the story of the door, hyde trampling over the girl
  • ch.2 : search for hyde, utterson seeing hyde for the first time
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what extracts are used to present hyde in the middle of the novel?

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  • ch.4 : the carew murder case, the maid watching the murder
  • ch.7 : incident at the window, enfield and utterson witness jekyll transforming
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what extracts are used to present hyde at the end of the novel?

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  • ch.8 : the last night, poole describing hyde posing as jekyll
  • ch.9 : dr lanyon’s narrative, lanyon’s first view of hyde
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initially, hyde is presented… (ch.1+2)

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  • as primitive
  • inhumane
  • through fear
  • through the perspective of others
  • as hideously repulsive
  • as a symbol of temptation
  • diabolical
  • mystery
  • criminal
  • satanic
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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘stumping..

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…along’

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(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘trampled…

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…calmly’

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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘brought out the sweat…

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…on me like running’

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(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘sick and white…

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…with the desire to kill’

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‘stumping along’

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  • verb
  • making a lot of noise and commotion
  • not graceful/elegant - social outcast -> gentlemen
  • primitive
  • victorians felt threatened of divergent features and traits
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‘trampled calmly’

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  • oxymoronic
  • no compassion/remorse
  • inhumane
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‘ugly…brought out the sweat on me like running’

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  • simile
  • hyde presented through fear -> like a gothic beast
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‘loathing’

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  • noun
  • hyde presented through other opinions of him/how he is percieved
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‘sick and white with the desire to kill’

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  • strong hate
  • hideously repulsive - referring to victorian fascination of physiognomy and Lombroso’s theory of atavism that looks reflected criminal tendencies
  • referring to sawbones- amputations used to be done without anaesthesia - great time for medical sciences
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘picture of…

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…disquietude’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘pale…

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..and dwarfish’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘displeasing…

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..smile’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘deformity without..

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…any nameable malformation’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘murderous mixture…

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..of timidity and boldness’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘hardly..

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…human’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘satan’s…

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..signature upon a face’

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‘picture of disquietude’

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  • shows reaction to mr hyde of unease and anxiety
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‘hissing’

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  • snake
  • presents hyde as a symbol of temptation
  • representative of the pious society at the time
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‘pale and dwarfish’
‘displeasing smile’

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  • semantic field of appearance
  • ‘displeasing smile’ - oxymoronic - even a smile isn’t pure and happy - suggests that hyde is purely evil and diabolical
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‘deformity without any nameable malformation’

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  • presents hyde as a mystery
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‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’

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  • presents Hyde as criminal
  • ‘timidity and boldness’ - oxymoronic suggesting that hyde is quaint and abnormal
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‘hardly human’
‘troglodytic’

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  • presented through uttersons’ description
  • inhumane
  • monstrous
  • resembling a cave man -> regression -> primitive
  • lombroso’s theory - criminals had primitive urges
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‘satan’s signature upon a face’

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  • presents hyde as devilish and satanic
  • victorian readers would be frightened and threatened as they lived in a pious society at the time
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throughout the middle of the novel, hyde is presented… (ch.4+7)

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  • as unlikeable
  • as untame
  • as primitive
  • as pre-historic
  • as violent
  • terrifying
  • through enfield and utterson’s shock and fear
  • through unreliable narration
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(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘conceived…

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..a dislike’

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(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘great flame…

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…of anger’

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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘like a…

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`..madman’

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(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘clubbed…

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..to the earth’

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(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘ape-like…

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..fury’

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(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘bones were…

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..audibly shattered’

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‘conceived a dislike’

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  • reaction to mr hyde
  • unlikeable
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‘great flame of anger’

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  • presents his volatile and volcanic rage
  • unlike social norms of the time as victorian gentlemen were reserved and polite and had manners
  • presents hyde as lacking self-control - untamed
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‘ape-like fury’

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  • primitive
  • darwin’s theory of evolution -> ‘the origin of species’ -> published 1859 - ape vs angel debate -> huge controversy and rejected ideas of christianity -> a pious society
  • regression
  • violent - atavistic behaviour - criminals have primitive urges
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‘clubbed him to the earth’

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  • prehistoric
  • violent - atavistic behaviour - criminals have primitive urges
  • cave-men -> darwin’s theory of having ape ancestors
39
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‘bones were audibly shattered’

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  • takes a lot of strength
  • presents hyde as violent and strong
  • victorian reader -> fearful
40
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(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘abject…

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..terror and despair’

41
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(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘froze the…

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..very blood’

42
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(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘god…

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…forgive us’

43
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‘abject terror and despair’

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  • adjective
  • semantic field of negativity and fear
  • presents hyde as terrifying and through fear
44
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‘froze the very blood’

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  • presents hyde through enfield and utterson’s shock and fear
  • metaphor
45
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‘horror’ ‘pale’

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  • presents hyde through fear
  • colour drained from faces -> shocking
  • enfield and utterson petrified and scarred
46
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‘God forgive us’

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  • religious - live in a pious society- christians
  • haven’t seen something so immoral - shocking
47
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how does chapter seven present hyde?

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  • through unreliable narration
  • reader can deduce that jekyll is in his liminal state -> Hyde
  • shows the dichotomy and duality of man
  • emphasises the idea of the evil in us all -> original sin
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finally, hyde is presented… (ch.8 + 9)

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  • as simian
  • as primitive
  • abnormal
  • deformed
  • repulsive
  • eerie
  • disturbing
  • grotesque
  • through dr lanyon’s pov
  • silly
  • out of control
  • through fear
  • beastly
  • purely evil
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘like…

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..a monkey’

50
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘spine…

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…like ice’

51
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘sorely…

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..contorted’

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‘like a monkey’

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  • hyde is presented as simian
  • simile
  • suggests regression
  • darwin’s ‘origin of species’ published 1859 - against victorian morals
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‘jumped’

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  • verb
  • primitive
  • bestial/animalistic imagery
  • inhumane
54
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‘spine like ice’

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  • simile
    -chilling, eerie, gothic trope
  • written at the time of interest in the gothic - Shelley’s ‘Franskenstein’
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‘sorely contorted’

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  • adjective
  • presents hyde as:
    - abnormal
    - deformed
    - repulsive
56
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‘twitching’

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  • verb
  • presents hyde as disturbing and deformed
  • reference to victorians’ fascination in physiognomy
57
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(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘ordinary person..

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…laughable’

58
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(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘on fire with…

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…sombre excitement’

59
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(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘dreadful…

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..smile’

60
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‘disgustful’ ‘revolting’

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  • presents hyde as grotesque and sickening
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‘ordinary person laughable’

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  • dr lanyon’s pov
  • reference to victorian society
  • gentlemen were well-dressed
  • looks like a joke/outcast/out of place
  • presents hyde as an outcast
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‘haunches’

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  • presents hyde as bestial and animalistic
  • primitive
63
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‘ludicrous’

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  • presents hyde as silly and crazy
64
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‘abnormal’

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  • presents hyde as deformed
  • refers to the fascination of physiognomy in victorian society
  • lombroso believed in atavism - physical deformities could reflect criminal tendencies and primitive urges -> would terrify and threaten a victorian reader
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‘on fire with sombre excitement’
‘hysteria’

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  • metaphor suggesting he is untamed and out of control and cannot contain himself
  • victorian readers would look down upon this and be shocked as they were fearful of divergent traits and features -> threatening to society
66
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‘ghastly’

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  • presents hyde through fear
  • presents him as beastly -> perhaps stevenson wanted to create a gothic beast like shelley’s frankenstein
67
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‘dreadful smile’

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  • oxymoronic
  • smiles are meant to bring happiness
  • suggests that there is no good in mr hyde - reflects the alter ego in us all -> the potential to do bad
  • original sin
  • presents hyde as purely evil and diabolical

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