Quotations Jekyll And Hyde Flashcards
Thesis statement
Reader interest in crime , violence , sin , Christianity
Is evil ever truly punished or not ?
Is everyone evil in some way?
Quotation 1 : religious sin and Hindu festival , othering
‘Damned juggernaut’ (Jagganath)
Quotation 2 : Lack of care from Hyde , not necessarily evil , Enfields exaggeration
‘Trampled calmly over the child’s body’
Quotation 3 : perhaps the true evil figures in the scene , civilised gentlemen
‘ I saw the sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him’
Quotation 4 : Enfield and doctor act on their evil intentions as respectable men , Hyde enters a society that is more evil than himself!
‘ satan’ ‘we screwed him up to a hundred pounds’ (blackmail)
Quotation 5 : anti Cristian beliefs (that we are born evil and made to suppress it) , we actually can’t separate our good and evil, it is who we are as humans !
We ‘ are commingled out of good and evil’
Point 6 :no one is safe from evil , link to thesis statement + interest in crime
Danvers Carew , MP , murdered near Houses of Parliament
Quotation 7 : symbolism of the maid as the reader , symbol of the evil within us all, is that a bad thing?
‘She used to say ,with streaming tears when she narrated’ excitement after the murder , a bystander
Quotation 8 : animalistic imagery , theory of evolution
‘Ape like fury’ survival of the fittest , if Hyde survives we will all evolve into him , against Christian beliefs , terrifying at the time
Quotation 9 : Hyde is Jekyll’s bravo , he acts on his deep desires , secret motive of original sin that he has suppressed for his life . (Christianity)
‘My devil came out roaring’
Quotation 9: lanyon tempted into seeing transformation , looses will to live , goes to heaven to escape the unchristian world .
‘ scientific heresies’ ‘will you be wise’
Quotation 10 : silence of utterson , irony , hiding of documents , we are all corrupt like utterson deep down
‘Gabriel utterson’
Conclusion : criticises civilised morality , why is Hyde created ?
Hyde is created because society doesn’t let people be themselves !
Quotation about setting :
‘ Handsome’ vs ‘sordid’ (immoral , dishonest , gross/dirty) house
Soho , leister sq very close to each other
John hunters house , good and evil
Setting quotation about Enfield :
‘From some place at the end of the world ‘ euphemism for sin, hypocritical of Hyde vs Enfield , shaming Hyde because he looks different , ‘othering’