Mr Edward Hyde Flashcards
what extracts are used to present hyde in the beginning of the novel?
- ch.1 : the story of the door, hyde trampling over the girl
- ch.2 : search for hyde, utterson seeing hyde for the first time
what extracts are used to present hyde in the middle of the novel?
- ch.4 : the carew murder case, the maid watching the murder
- ch.7 : incident at the window, enfield and utterson witness jekyll transforming
what extracts are used to present hyde at the end of the novel?
- ch.8 : the last night, poole describing hyde posing as jekyll
- ch.9 : dr lanyon’s narrative, lanyon’s first view of hyde
initially, hyde is presented… (ch.1+2)
- as primitive
- inhumane
- through fear
- through the perspective of others
- as hideously repulsive
- as a symbol of temptation
- diabolical
- mystery
- criminal
- satanic
(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘stumping..
…along’
(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘trampled…
…calmly’
(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘brought out the sweat…
…on me like running’
(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘sick and white…
…with the desire to kill’
‘stumping along’
- verb
- making a lot of noise and commotion
- not graceful/elegant - social outcast -> gentlemen
- primitive
- victorians felt threatened of divergent features and traits
‘trampled calmly’
- oxymoronic
- no compassion/remorse
- inhumane
‘ugly…brought out the sweat on me like running’
- simile
- hyde presented through fear -> like a gothic beast
‘loathing’
- noun
- hyde presented through other opinions of him/how he is percieved
‘sick and white with the desire to kill’
- 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
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘picture of…
…disquietude’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘pale…
..and dwarfish’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘displeasing…
..smile’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘deformity without..
…any nameable malformation’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘murderous mixture…
..of timidity and boldness’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘hardly..
…human’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘satan’s…
..signature upon a face’
‘picture of disquietude’
- shows reaction to mr hyde of unease and anxiety
‘hissing’
- snake
- presents hyde as a symbol of temptation
- representative of the pious society at the time
‘pale and dwarfish’
‘displeasing smile’
- semantic field of appearance
- ‘displeasing smile’ - oxymoronic - even a smile isn’t pure and happy - suggests that hyde is purely evil and diabolical
‘deformity without any nameable malformation’
- presents hyde as a mystery
‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’
- presents Hyde as criminal
- ‘timidity and boldness’ - oxymoronic suggesting that hyde is quaint and abnormal
‘hardly human’
‘troglodytic’
- presented through uttersons’ description
- inhumane
- monstrous
- resembling a cave man -> regression -> primitive
- lombroso’s theory - criminals had primitive urges
‘satan’s signature upon a face’
- presents hyde as devilish and satanic
- victorian readers would be frightened and threatened as they lived in a pious society at the time
throughout the middle of the novel, hyde is presented… (ch.4+7)
- as unlikeable
- as untame
- as primitive
- as pre-historic
- as violent
- terrifying
- through enfield and utterson’s shock and fear
- through unreliable narration
(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘conceived…
..a dislike’
(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘great flame…
…of anger’
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘like a…
`..madman’
(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘clubbed…
..to the earth’
(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘ape-like…
..fury’
(ch.4)finish the quote: ‘bones were…
..audibly shattered’
‘conceived a dislike’
- reaction to mr hyde
- unlikeable
‘great flame of anger’
- 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
‘ape-like fury’
- 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
‘clubbed him to the earth’
- prehistoric
- violent - atavistic behaviour - criminals have primitive urges
- cave-men -> darwin’s theory of having ape ancestors
‘bones were audibly shattered’
- takes a lot of strength
- presents hyde as violent and strong
- victorian reader -> fearful
(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘abject…
..terror and despair’
(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘froze the…
..very blood’
(ch.7) finish the quote: ‘god…
…forgive us’
‘abject terror and despair’
- adjective
- semantic field of negativity and fear
- presents hyde as terrifying and through fear
‘froze the very blood’
- presents hyde through enfield and utterson’s shock and fear
- metaphor
‘horror’ ‘pale’
- presents hyde through fear
- colour drained from faces -> shocking
- enfield and utterson petrified and scarred
‘God forgive us’
- religious - live in a pious society- christians
- haven’t seen something so immoral - shocking
how does chapter seven present hyde?
- 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
finally, hyde is presented… (ch.8 + 9)
- as simian
- as primitive
- abnormal
- deformed
- repulsive
- eerie
- disturbing
- grotesque
- through dr lanyon’s pov
- silly
- out of control
- through fear
- beastly
- purely evil
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘like…
..a monkey’
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘spine…
…like ice’
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘sorely…
..contorted’
‘like a monkey’
- hyde is presented as simian
- simile
- suggests regression
- darwin’s ‘origin of species’ published 1859 - against victorian morals
‘jumped’
- verb
- primitive
- bestial/animalistic imagery
- inhumane
‘spine like ice’
- simile
-chilling, eerie, gothic trope - written at the time of interest in the gothic - Shelley’s ‘Franskenstein’
‘sorely contorted’
- adjective
- presents hyde as:
- abnormal
- deformed
- repulsive
‘twitching’
- verb
- presents hyde as disturbing and deformed
- reference to victorians’ fascination in physiognomy
(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘ordinary person..
…laughable’
(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘on fire with…
…sombre excitement’
(ch.9) finish the quote: ‘dreadful…
..smile’
‘disgustful’ ‘revolting’
- presents hyde as grotesque and sickening
‘ordinary person laughable’
- 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
‘haunches’
- presents hyde as bestial and animalistic
- primitive
‘ludicrous’
- presents hyde as silly and crazy
‘abnormal’
- 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
‘on fire with sombre excitement’
‘hysteria’
- 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
‘ghastly’
- presents hyde through fear
- presents him as beastly -> perhaps stevenson wanted to create a gothic beast like shelley’s frankenstein
‘dreadful smile’
- 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
