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in what ways is reputation presented in the novel?

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  • through the fear of being exposed
  • as important/major
  • through excitement
  • through conflict
  • through frustration
  • through the portrayal of an ideal victorian gentleman
  • through the house of hyde and the house of jekyll
  • through the different parts of London
  • through Stevenson exposing the hypocrisy of Victorian society
  • misleading
  • repressive
  • corrupting
  • lost
  • high and proper
  • through the use of secrets and unreliable narration
  • through the implied homosexuality between jekyll and hyde
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which extracts are used to present reputation at the BEGINNING of the novel?

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  • chapter 1: story of the door, hyde paying off an assault to protect his reputation
  • chapter 1: story of the door, utterson and enfield talking about hyde’s reputation
  • chapter 2: search for mr hyde, utterson talking about his and jekyll’s past
  • chapter 3: dr jekyll was quite at ease, jekyll’s dinners
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which extracts are used to present reputation at the MIDDLE of the novel?

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  • chapter 4: the carew murder case, the description of soho and hyde’s house in the night
  • chapter 5: incident of the letter, utterson warning jekyll about hyde tarnishing j’s reputation AND guest being silenced
  • chapter 6: incident of dr lanyon, jekyll’s improvement as a gentleman
  • chapter 7: incident at the window: enfield revealing his discovery about the connection between hyde’s and jekyll’s house and utterson already knowing
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which extracts are used to present reputation at the END of the novel?

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  • chapter 8 : the last night, poole visiting utterson
  • chapter 10: jekyll’s confession of enjoying turning into hyde
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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘make his…

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…name stink’

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(ch.1) start the quote: …pounds’

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‘a hundred…

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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘can’t…

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…mention’

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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘change…

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..their name’

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‘make his name stink’

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  • will ruin him
  • for victorians reputation was everything
  • shows how major and significant for a victorian gentleman
    -** presents reputation as major**
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‘a hundred pounds’

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  • reputation presented through fear of being exposed and presented as corrupting
  • hypocrisy of victorian society
  • would spend money -> would care for his reputation
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‘can’t mention’

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- reputation presented through the use of secrets
- gothic theme

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‘blackmail’

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  • reputed gentlemen paying people off to hide their immoral acts
  • victorian society was so repressive that people were so desperate they did immoral and sinful things behind closed doors
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‘change their name’

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  • shows how crucial reputation was to victorians
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘concealed…

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…disgrace’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘black…

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…secrets’

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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘look..

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…of him’

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finish the quote: ‘creature..

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..stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside’

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‘wild’

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  • speaking of Jekyll’s past
  • reputation of Hyde presented through Jekyll’s past
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‘concealed disgrace’

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  • reputation presented as misleading and fake -> had their sins hidden
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‘black secrets’
‘look of him’

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  • lombroso’s theory of atavism -> looks present criminal tendencies and primitive urges - physiognomy and darwins origin of species - 1859
  • reputation presented through physical appearance
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‘creature stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside’

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  • reputation is presented through the implied homosexuality between Jekyll and Hyde -> seen as unacceptable through Victorian eyes - would ruin your reputation - kept it quiet
  • ‘creature’ ‘like a thief’ -> ideas of atavism - typical of victorian time
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(ch.3)finish the quote: ‘intelligent..

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…reputable men’

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(ch.3) finish the quote: ‘judges..

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..of good wine’

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(ch.3)finish the quote: ‘smooth..

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..faced’

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(ch.3) finish the quote: ‘warm..

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…affection’

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‘pleasant’

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  • expectations of victorian gentlemen - host ‘pleasant’ and expensive dinners
  • reflective of victorian standards -> of propriety and well-mannered gentlemen
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‘intelligent, reputable men’

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  • men with good reputations and high social status expected to have friends of the same status - hyde broke those standards as jekyll had connections with hyde which were visible to the victorian eyes
  • utterson, enfield and lanyon all examples of this
  • reputation presented through social status
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‘judges of good wine’

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  • rich
  • reputation presented through social class
  • presents the hierarchy of victorian society
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‘smooth-faced’
‘sincere’
‘warm affection’

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  • reputation presented through physical appearance
  • victorian ideas of physiognomy
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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘dismal…

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..quarter of soho’

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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘slatternly..

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..passengers’

32
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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘like a district..

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..of some city in a nightmare’

33
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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘many women of..

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..different nationalities passing out’

34
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(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘dingy..

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..street’

35
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‘dismal quarter of Soho’

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  • presented reputation through the different parts of london’ -> showing the dichotomy of london reflecting that of jekyll and hyde
36
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‘muddy’

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  • dirty - reflective of the people that lived there - reputation was presented through where you lived - context - brothels, etc
37
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‘slatternly passengers’

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  • adj
  • untidy
  • reputation presented through parts of london - hyde in soho, jekyll’s house -> ‘air of wealth’
38
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‘like a district of some city in a nightmare’

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  • simile
  • nightmare -> gothic trope
  • london but stevenson lived in edinburgh -> imagining london
  • through use of gothic tropes
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‘dingy street’

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  • remote and scary
  • dark
  • reflecting hyde
  • presents reputation through parts of london
40
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‘many women of many different nationalities passing out’

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  • allusion of prostitution -> brothels - hypocritical society -> reflective of immoral activities happening behind closed doors
  • reputation presented as dishonourable
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‘blackguardly’

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  • adj
  • dishonourable
  • poor reputation -> reflecting that of hyde’s reputation -> foreshadows the finding out as the murderer of carew
42
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(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘if it came…

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..to a trial, your name might appear’

43
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(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘wouldn’t…

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..speak’

44
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(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘locked the note…

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..into his safe’

45
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‘if it came to a trial, your name might appear’

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  • suggests that utterson is more concerned about preserving reputation than bringing hyde to trial and exposing his ugly truth
  • presents reputation as being the most important and a priority - sinful -> hide to protect their own reputations and don’t stand up for what is right
  • reminds reader of oscar wilde trial - brutal and he was sent to a workhouse and died of malnutrition
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‘wouldn’t speak’

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  • reputation is presented through the use of secrets and staying quiet
  • victorian society - gentlemen wouldn’t gossip - v.reserved
47
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‘locked the note into his safe’

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  • reputation presented through the use of secrets and secretive info
  • context - mystery case - gothic trope - victorian reader would be hooked and thrilled -> crime and mystery was very topical -> invention of the printing press meant that the public were more aware of things like that
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(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘known…

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…for charities’

49
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(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘no less…

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..distinguished for religion’

50
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(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘open…

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..air’

51
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(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘did…

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..good’

52
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(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘open and…

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..brighten’

53
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how is reputation presented as a whole in chapter 6?

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  • through the portrayal of an ideal victorian gentleman
54
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‘known for charities’
‘no less distinguished for religion’
‘busy’
‘did good’

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  • seen as generous and charitable
  • pious and religious
  • doctor - reputable profession - was good to be busy
  • seen as a good and kind person
  • reputation presented through the portrayal of an ideal victorian gentleman
  • hypocrisy of society
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‘open air’
‘open and brighten’

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  • it was seen as healthy and used as a remedy to “take the air” in victorian times
  • believed it to heal you
  • a victorian gentleman would be expected to be frequently seen outside
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘a visit..

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..from Poole’

57
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘glass of…

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..wine’

58
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘self…

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..destruction’

59
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(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘doggedly…

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…disregarding the question’

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‘evening’
‘ a visit from Poole’
‘glass of wine’

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  • shocking for a victorian reader that a servant would come to visit a gentleman in the evening and not be serving his master
  • ‘glass of wine’ -> boundaries crossed between servant and gentleman
  • reputation is presented through social class
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‘cried’

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  • utterson’s reaction to the servants being at the lobby and waiting
  • presents his shock
  • utterson used to portray a victorian perspective - against social decorum/propriety
  • reputation presented through social classes
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‘self destruction’

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  • scandalous in victorian perspective
  • disobeying the bible -> suicide seen as a great sin
  • presents reputation as very important as he did this to escape the ‘gallows’ -> didn’t want to have a bad reputation - life ruined - would rather be dead than to be seen humiliated and disrespected
63
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‘doggedly disregarding the question’

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  • secrets kept
  • mystery of the novel
  • reputation presented through secrets kept
64
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘sat under…

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..shelter’

65
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘like a…

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..schoolboy’

66
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘strip…

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…off’

67
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘I did not…

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..even exist!’

68
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘like the stain of…

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…breath upon a mirror’

69
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘sea of…

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..liberty’

70
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(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘a man who…

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…could afford to laugh at suspicion’

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‘crimes’

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  • hid their crimes
  • implying that even the most reputed people have inner horrible secrets except some can afford to keep them and quiten others and others cannot
  • reputation presented through the hypocrisy of victorian society
72
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‘sat under shelter’
‘public’

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  • reputation presented through fear of being exposed
  • hypocrisy of society
  • fear of not being respected
73
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‘like a schoolboy’
‘strip off’

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  • felt repressed
  • ‘school boy’ -> irresponsible
  • reputation presented through frustration- repressive
  • liberty in being hyde
74
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‘I did not even exist!’

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  • exclamation -> reputation presented through excitement - can cast off fear as he no longer bore the responsibilities of releasing his alter ego/inner hyde
75
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‘sea of liberty’
‘a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion’

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  • through conflict
  • ‘temptation’
  • jekyll’s reputation presented as high
  • rich -> reputation presented as through social cues
  • implying that even the most reputed people have inner horrible secrets except some can afford to keep them and quiten others and others cannot
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what were the traits of a victorian gentleman?

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  • amazing self-control
  • propriety
  • social etiquette
  • morals
  • trustworthy
  • christian
  • social status

English Literature : Jekyll and Hyde (32 decks)

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