Reputation Flashcards
in what ways is reputation presented in the novel?
- 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
which extracts are used to present reputation at the BEGINNING of the novel?
- 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
which extracts are used to present reputation at the MIDDLE of the novel?
- 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
which extracts are used to present reputation at the END of the novel?
- chapter 8 : the last night, poole visiting utterson
- chapter 10: jekyll’s confession of enjoying turning into hyde
(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘make his…
…name stink’
(ch.1) start the quote: …pounds’
‘a hundred…
(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘can’t…
…mention’
(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘change…
..their name’
‘make his name stink’
- will ruin him
- for victorians reputation was everything
- shows how major and significant for a victorian gentleman
-** presents reputation as major**
‘a hundred pounds’
- reputation presented through fear of being exposed and presented as corrupting
- hypocrisy of victorian society
- would spend money -> would care for his reputation
‘can’t mention’
- reputation presented through the use of secrets
- gothic theme
‘blackmail’
- 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
‘change their name’
- shows how crucial reputation was to victorians
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘concealed…
…disgrace’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘black…
…secrets’
(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘look..
…of him’
finish the quote: ‘creature..
..stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside’
‘wild’
- speaking of Jekyll’s past
- reputation of Hyde presented through Jekyll’s past
‘concealed disgrace’
- reputation presented as misleading and fake -> had their sins hidden
‘black secrets’
‘look of him’
- lombroso’s theory of atavism -> looks present criminal tendencies and primitive urges - physiognomy and darwins origin of species - 1859
- reputation presented through physical appearance
‘creature stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside’
- 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
(ch.3)finish the quote: ‘intelligent..
…reputable men’
(ch.3) finish the quote: ‘judges..
..of good wine’
(ch.3)finish the quote: ‘smooth..
..faced’
(ch.3) finish the quote: ‘warm..
…affection’
‘pleasant’
- expectations of victorian gentlemen - host ‘pleasant’ and expensive dinners
- reflective of victorian standards -> of propriety and well-mannered gentlemen
‘intelligent, reputable men’
- 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
‘judges of good wine’
- rich
- reputation presented through social class
- presents the hierarchy of victorian society
‘smooth-faced’
‘sincere’
‘warm affection’
- reputation presented through physical appearance
- victorian ideas of physiognomy
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘dismal…
..quarter of soho’
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘slatternly..
..passengers’
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘like a district..
..of some city in a nightmare’
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘many women of..
..different nationalities passing out’
(ch.4) finish the quote: ‘dingy..
..street’
‘dismal quarter of Soho’
- presented reputation through the different parts of london’ -> showing the dichotomy of london reflecting that of jekyll and hyde
‘muddy’
- dirty - reflective of the people that lived there - reputation was presented through where you lived - context - brothels, etc
‘slatternly passengers’
- adj
- untidy
- reputation presented through parts of london - hyde in soho, jekyll’s house -> ‘air of wealth’
‘like a district of some city in a nightmare’
- simile
- nightmare -> gothic trope
- london but stevenson lived in edinburgh -> imagining london
- through use of gothic tropes
‘dingy street’
- remote and scary
- dark
- reflecting hyde
- presents reputation through parts of london
‘many women of many different nationalities passing out’
- allusion of prostitution -> brothels - hypocritical society -> reflective of immoral activities happening behind closed doors
- reputation presented as dishonourable
‘blackguardly’
- adj
- dishonourable
- poor reputation -> reflecting that of hyde’s reputation -> foreshadows the finding out as the murderer of carew
(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘if it came…
..to a trial, your name might appear’
(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘wouldn’t…
..speak’
(ch.5) finish the quote : ‘locked the note…
..into his safe’
‘if it came to a trial, your name might appear’
- 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
‘wouldn’t speak’
- reputation is presented through the use of secrets and staying quiet
- victorian society - gentlemen wouldn’t gossip - v.reserved
‘locked the note into his safe’
- 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
(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘known…
…for charities’
(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘no less…
..distinguished for religion’
(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘open…
..air’
(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘did…
..good’
(ch.6) finish the quote: ‘open and…
..brighten’
how is reputation presented as a whole in chapter 6?
- through the portrayal of an ideal victorian gentleman
‘known for charities’
‘no less distinguished for religion’
‘busy’
‘did good’
- 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
‘open air’
‘open and brighten’
- 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
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘a visit..
..from Poole’
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘glass of…
..wine’
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘self…
..destruction’
(ch.8) finish the quote: ‘doggedly…
…disregarding the question’
‘evening’
‘ a visit from Poole’
‘glass of wine’
- 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
‘cried’
- 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
‘self destruction’
- 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
‘doggedly disregarding the question’
- secrets kept
- mystery of the novel
- reputation presented through secrets kept
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘sat under…
..shelter’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘like a…
..schoolboy’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘strip…
…off’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘I did not…
..even exist!’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘like the stain of…
…breath upon a mirror’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘sea of…
..liberty’
(ch.10) finish the quote: ‘a man who…
…could afford to laugh at suspicion’
‘crimes’
- 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
‘sat under shelter’
‘public’
- reputation presented through fear of being exposed
- hypocrisy of society
- fear of not being respected
‘like a schoolboy’
‘strip off’
- felt repressed
- ‘school boy’ -> irresponsible
- reputation presented through frustration- repressive
- liberty in being hyde
‘I did not even exist!’
- exclamation -> reputation presented through excitement - can cast off fear as he no longer bore the responsibilities of releasing his alter ego/inner hyde
‘sea of liberty’
‘a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion’
- 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
what were the traits of a victorian gentleman?
- amazing self-control
- propriety
- social etiquette
- morals
- trustworthy
- christian
- social status
