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in what ways was secrecy presented in the novel?

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  • through unreliable narration
  • through confessions of Hyde/Dr Jekyll
  • through hyde
  • through settings : jekyll’s house and hyde’s house
  • through secrets kept by utterson, enfield and jekyll
  • utterson is not all-knowing
  • through the hiding of emotion/expression
  • though the letters -> left unread until the end of the novel
  • through the use of closed/locked doors, windows and cabinets
  • through use of red herrings
  • through limitations in framed narratives
  • redherrings/ false leads
  • mystery
  • through mysteries of hyde - exclusion from narrative - never see his points of view
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which extracts were used to present secrecy in the BEGINNING of the novel?

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  • chapter 1: enfield and utterson’s walks
  • chapter 1: desc. of the forgotten house
  • chapter 1: enfield hiding secrets
  • chapter 2: utterson hiding documents
  • chapter 2: hyde not showing his face
  • chapter 2: utterson and jekyll’s past
  • chapter 3: jekyll refusing to reveal his secrets
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which extracts were used to present secrecy in the MIDDLE of the novel?

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  • chapter 4: hyde’s house ransacked
  • chapter 5: dr jekyll’s dissecting room
  • chapter 5: guest
  • chapter 6: utterson talking to lanyon - is shocked and hates utterson
  • chapter 6: jekyll talking to utterson about lanyon
  • chapter 6: letter after lanyon’s death
  • chapter 7: revelation of jekyll’s back door
  • chapter 7: jekyll’s transition
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which extracts were used to present secrecy in the END of the novel?

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  • chapter 8: poole breaking down jekyll’s door- locks
  • chapter 9: lanyon picking up the drawer and taking it to cavendish square and analysing it
  • chapter 9: lanyon’s shock and revelation
  • chapter 10: jekyll talking about his repression and liberty as being hyde
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initially, secrecy is presented..

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through unreliable narration

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finish the quote: ‘sunday..

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…walks’

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finish the quote: ‘in…

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..common’

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finish the quote: ‘looked…

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..singularly dull’

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‘sunday walks’
‘said nothing’
‘looked singularly dull’
‘uninterrupted’

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  • enfield and utterson’s walks
  • strange relationship
  • secrecy is presented through an implied homosexual relationship/ through the quaint relationship between enfield and utterson -> through unreliable narration
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initially, secrecy is presented…

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through hyde’s “house”

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finish the quote: ‘no window..

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..nothing but a door on the lower storey’

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finish the quote: ‘neither…

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..bell nor knocker’

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‘no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey’
‘neither bell nor knocker’

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  • window used to present a desire to hide secrets
  • presented as an abandoned house
  • presented through the lack of windows - ‘blind forehead’
  • ‘neither bell nor knocker’ - unwelcoming, no one attempts to enter -> secretive
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initially, secrecy is presented…

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through enfield’s unreliable narration

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finish the quote: ‘some place..

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..at the end of the world’

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finish the quote: ‘about three o’clock..

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..on a black winter morning’

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‘some place at the end of the world’
‘about three o’clock on a black winter morning’

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  • doesn’t specify where in early morning
  • secrecy is presented through enfield’s unreliable narration
  • london is scary -> early morning, dark - associated with dishonourable behaviour - assumed somewhere scandalous
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ch.2 quotations

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  • ‘took from the most private part of it’
  • ‘stared at each other’
  • ‘wild’
  • ‘of some concealed disgrace’
  • ‘the fault’
  • ‘the many ill things he had done’
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initially, secrecy is presented…

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through chapter 2

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finish the quote: ‘took from the most…

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..private part of it’

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‘took from the most private part of it’

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  • utterson has secrets - something to hide
  • mysterious
  • secrecy is presented through utterson keepting secrets
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finish the quote: ‘stared at..

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..each other’

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‘stared at each other’

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  • secrecy presented through unreliable narration - doesn’t tell the reader exactly what he saw
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‘wild’

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  • vague - doesn’t specify
  • victorian reader assumes the worst
  • secrecy presented through unreliable narration
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finish the quote: ‘of some..

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..concealed disgrace’

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26
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start the quote: …fault’

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‘the…

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27
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‘of some concealed disgrace’

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  • ‘some’ -> unreliable narration
  • presented through secrets kept by utterson
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‘the fault’

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  • doesn’t name it -> but labels it with an article - ‘the’ - significant
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29
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finish the quote: ‘the many ill…

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…things he had done’

30
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‘the many ill things he had done’

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  • victorian shocked -> utterson - gentleman and inclines to cain’s heresay
  • the fact that he has commited illicit activities
  • presents the hypocrisy of victorian society
31
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(ch.3)initially, secrecy is presented…

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through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown

32
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finish the quote: ‘cannot be mended..

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..by talking’

33
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‘cannot be mended by talking’

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  • jekyll will not tell utterson -> secrecy presented through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown
34
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finish the quote: ‘this is…

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..a private matter’

35
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‘this is a private matter’

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  • jekyll will not tell utterson -> secrecy presented through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown
36
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(ch.4) throughout the course of the novel, secrecy is presented…

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through the state of hyde’s house

37
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finish the quote: ‘pockets inside..

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..out’

38
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finish the quote: ‘drawers..

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..stood open’

39
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‘ransacked’
‘pockets inside out’
‘drawers stood open’

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  • secrecy presented through the state of hyde’s house - violently upturned
  • has something to hide
40
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finish the quote: ‘many papers..

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..had been burned’

41
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‘many papers had been burned’

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  • ‘many’ -> urges the reader to be curious and urges them to question what these papers were
  • doesn’t specify - secrecy presented through unreliable narration
42
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ch.5 quotations

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  • ‘dissecting rooms’
  • ‘first time’
  • ‘dingy, windowless’
  • ‘a door covered with red baize’
  • ‘three dusty windows barred with iron’
  • ‘a man of counsel’
  • ‘fog began to lie thickly’
  • ‘Mr.Guest’
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‘dissecting rooms’
‘first time’

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  • reference to grave robbing - for medical science - duplicity of society-secrecy presented through sinful and illicit activities -> backdoor to jekyll’s -> allusion to jekyll being involved in grave robbing -> hypocrisy of society
  • first time that jekyll - one of his oldest friends- came into this part- hidden from him - presents secrecy through utterson’s lack of knowledge - not omnicient
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‘door covered with red baize’
‘three dusty windows barred with iron’

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  • ‘baize’ - used to deaden noise - secrecy presented through doors - to quieten jekyll’s liminal state between jekyll and hyde
  • ‘barred with iron’ - captivity, designed to prevent anyone from leaving - reader would question why a doctor would need those
45
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‘fog began to lie thickly’

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  • pathetic fallacy
  • representative of smog in victorian england
  • fog so thick it covers the streets - symbolic of secrecy
46
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ch.6 quotations

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  • ‘I have had a shock’
  • ‘as dead’
  • ‘Tut-tut’
  • ‘ask himself’
  • ‘I cannot tell you’
  • ‘cannot name’
  • ‘respect my silence’
  • ‘alone’
  • ‘packet slept in the most inmost corner of his private safe’
47
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‘I have had a shock’

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  • vague
  • unreliable narrative
48
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‘as dead’
‘Tut-tut’

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  • shocking events are downplayed
  • gentlemen determined to believe everything is normal -> desire to hide secrets
  • secrecy presented through the hiding of emotion
49
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‘ask himself’
‘cannot tell you’

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  • ‘ask himself’ - lanyon
  • ‘i cannot tell you’ - lanyon
  • utterson is unaware of the big event occurred between lanyon and jekyll -> secrets are kept from him -> not omniscient
50
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‘cannot name’
‘respect my silence’

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  • said by jekyll
  • secrecy presented through secrets kept by jekyll / utterson’s lack of knowledge
51
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‘packet slept in the most inmost corner of his private safe’

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  • utterson has lots of secrets
  • victorian people were reserved
  • ‘safe’ -> makes victorians wonder what he is hiding/ how much he is hiding
  • ‘inmost corner’ -> ideal for a victorian gentleman - trustworthy, he doesn’t gossip, would keep his word to protect the reputation of others
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ch.7 quotations

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  • ‘a back way to Dr Jekyll’s’
  • ‘my cousin’
  • ‘impossible’
  • ‘the place is really not fit’
  • ‘the window was instantly thrust down’
  • ‘without a word’
  • ‘companion’
  • ‘pale’
  • ‘answering horror’
  • ‘in silence’
53
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‘a back way to Dr Jekyll’s’

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  • mystery solved - unreliable narration - utterson knew all along
  • secrecy is presented through secrets hidden by utterson and his reservation
54
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‘my cousin’
‘companion’

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  • utterson refers to enfield as his cousin in front of jekyll
  • then referred to as his ‘companion’
  • reader is confused -> assumes a homosexual relationship
  • frowned upon in victorian society- was illegal - reminds us of oscar wilde’s trial
55
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‘impossible’
‘the place is really not fit’

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  • secrecy presented through jekyll’s continuous avoidance of the topic and jekyll leaving things unanswered and avoiding answering questions - didn’t want them to come up - victorian would get suspicious as to who was up there - secrecy also presented through red herrings as in ch.8 - utterson presumes jekyll has ‘one of those maladies’, referring to syphillis - victorians were becoming much more conscious of health and diseases
56
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‘the window was instantly thrust down’

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  • window shut to represent jekyll’s desire to hide his secret - jekyll transforming into Hyde - in liminal state
  • ‘instantly thrust down’ - alluding to the hypocrisy of victorian society - sinful acts were done behind shut doors and shushed
  • secrecy presented through the concealing of Enfield and Utterson’s relationship + the constant attempts to obscure the details of the relationship -> readers may assume a homosexual relationship -> was illegal at the time -> only referred to, not explicit
57
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‘without a word’
‘pale’
‘answering horror’
‘in silence’

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  • they won’t talk about it
  • presented through the victorian gentlemen qualities of Utterson and Enfield
  • scarred
  • witnessed something immoral/shocking -> secrecy presented through unreliable narration -> reader left in secrecy
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ch.8 quotations

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  • ‘the red baize door leaped up against the lock and hinges’
  • ‘tough’
  • ‘fifth’
  • ‘lock burst’
59
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‘the red baize door leaped up against the lock and hinges’
‘tough’
‘fifth’
‘lock burst’

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  • personification
  • symbolic of the breakdown of Jekyll’s walls of secrecy - ‘lock burst’
  • locked doors represent the desire to hide secrets -> reflective of victorian society- repressive -> hypocrisy
  • ‘fifth’ -> tough door -> jekyll’s secret was very big and difficult to unravel through the narrative
60
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chapter 9 quotations - put 8+9

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  • ‘very strong, the lock excellent’
  • ‘door stood open’
  • ‘unlocked’
  • ‘have to do much damage’
  • ‘could make no guess’
  • ‘series of dates’
  • ‘of some salt’
  • ‘like a man restored from death’
  • ‘known by the name of hyde’
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‘very strong, the lock excellent’
‘door stood open’
‘unlocked’
‘have to do much damage’

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  • jekyll’s secret was major and revolutionary -> never been done before - had many lies and the duality of jekyll and hyde to cover it
  • ‘unlocked’ -> not enough to keep it in secrecy -> jekyll left exposed -> ‘have to do much damage’ -> resulted in jekyll/hyde’s death
  • secrecy is presented as dangerous and through the use of locked doors and windows
62
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‘could make no guess’
‘of some salt’

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  • lanyon -> reputable and wealthy doctor and couldn’t tell the salt -> may suggest it is illegal/dangerous
    -secrecy represented through medicine
  • victorian would be shocked - dr jekyll - high status and reputation -> illegal drugs/salts
63
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‘series of dates’

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  • vague
  • secrets kept /unreliable narration by lanyon
64
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‘like a man restored from death’
‘known by the name of Hyde’

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  • secrecy presented through the big revelation found out in ch.8 and the solving of the murder (dr lanyon’s pov)
65
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ch.10 quotations

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  • ‘concealed my pleasures’
  • ‘profound duplicity of life’
  • ‘such irregularities’
  • ‘them’
  • ‘deeper trench’
  • ‘hard law of life’
  • ‘root of religion’
  • ‘partial discovery’
66
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‘concealed my pleasures’
‘profound duplicity of life’

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  • implies that Jekyll was always a bad man and ENJOYED being Hyde
  • shocked contemporary readers- pious society and gentleman - enjoyed doing sinful acts, trampling over the girl, the murder of sir danvers carew - thought of him as a murderer
  • secrecy presented through jekyll’s confessions - hid the alter-ego hyde section in him and suffered until the potion
  • ‘profound duplicity’ -> how he presented himself on the exterior - as a well-dressed victorian gentleman - doctor considered very reputable and a kind and generous heart, COMPARED TO THE INTERIOR - primitive urges, sense of madness , not in control- victorian times - seen as terrifying - bedlam
67
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‘such irregularities’
‘them’

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  • vague
  • unreliable narration -> a gothic trope
  • doesn’t wish to delve further - one can only assume -> in victorian society: time of crime and prostitution in london
68
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‘deeper trench’
‘hard law of life’

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  • in a harder position than most men
  • secrecy presented through unrealistic victorian standards - had to hide his pleasures like any other gentleman
  • attributes of a typical victorian gentleman ….
69
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‘root of religion’

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  • secrecy presented through a pious repressive victorian society - had to be religious and do certain things to be accepted into society - church every sunday - life revolved around religion
70
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‘partial discovery’

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  • secrecy presented through the incomplete experiment, which remains a mystery and therefore fails to complete its purpose and doesn’t fully answer the readers’ questions
  • although solving the mystery, the reader or utterson never finds out the complete truth -> secrecy presented through jekyll’s reservation -> remains a mystery

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