Secrecy Flashcards
in what ways was secrecy presented in the novel?
- 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
which extracts were used to present secrecy in the BEGINNING of the novel?
- 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
which extracts were used to present secrecy in the MIDDLE of the novel?
- 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
which extracts were used to present secrecy in the END of the novel?
- 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
initially, secrecy is presented..
through unreliable narration
finish the quote: ‘sunday..
…walks’
finish the quote: ‘in…
..common’
finish the quote: ‘looked…
..singularly dull’
‘sunday walks’
‘said nothing’
‘looked singularly dull’
‘uninterrupted’
- 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
initially, secrecy is presented…
through hyde’s “house”
finish the quote: ‘no window..
..nothing but a door on the lower storey’
finish the quote: ‘neither…
..bell nor knocker’
‘no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey’
‘neither bell nor knocker’
- 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
initially, secrecy is presented…
through enfield’s unreliable narration
finish the quote: ‘some place..
..at the end of the world’
finish the quote: ‘about three o’clock..
..on a black winter morning’
‘some place at the end of the world’
‘about three o’clock on a black winter morning’
- 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
ch.2 quotations
- ‘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’
initially, secrecy is presented…
through chapter 2
finish the quote: ‘took from the most…
..private part of it’
‘took from the most private part of it’
- utterson has secrets - something to hide
- mysterious
- secrecy is presented through utterson keepting secrets
finish the quote: ‘stared at..
..each other’
‘stared at each other’
- secrecy presented through unreliable narration - doesn’t tell the reader exactly what he saw
‘wild’
- vague - doesn’t specify
- victorian reader assumes the worst
- secrecy presented through unreliable narration
finish the quote: ‘of some..
..concealed disgrace’
start the quote: …fault’
‘the…
‘of some concealed disgrace’
- ‘some’ -> unreliable narration
- presented through secrets kept by utterson
‘the fault’
- doesn’t name it -> but labels it with an article - ‘the’ - significant
finish the quote: ‘the many ill…
…things he had done’
‘the many ill things he had done’
- victorian shocked -> utterson - gentleman and inclines to cain’s heresay
- the fact that he has commited illicit activities
- presents the hypocrisy of victorian society
(ch.3)initially, secrecy is presented…
through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown
finish the quote: ‘cannot be mended..
..by talking’
‘cannot be mended by talking’
- jekyll will not tell utterson -> secrecy presented through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown
finish the quote: ‘this is…
..a private matter’
‘this is a private matter’
- jekyll will not tell utterson -> secrecy presented through dr jekyll’s reservation and willingness for the matter to remain unknown
(ch.4) throughout the course of the novel, secrecy is presented…
through the state of hyde’s house
finish the quote: ‘pockets inside..
..out’
finish the quote: ‘drawers..
..stood open’
‘ransacked’
‘pockets inside out’
‘drawers stood open’
- secrecy presented through the state of hyde’s house - violently upturned
- has something to hide
finish the quote: ‘many papers..
..had been burned’
‘many papers had been burned’
- ‘many’ -> urges the reader to be curious and urges them to question what these papers were
- doesn’t specify - secrecy presented through unreliable narration
ch.5 quotations
- ‘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’
‘dissecting rooms’
‘first time’
- 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
‘door covered with red baize’
‘three dusty windows barred with iron’
- ‘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
‘fog began to lie thickly’
- pathetic fallacy
- representative of smog in victorian england
- fog so thick it covers the streets - symbolic of secrecy
ch.6 quotations
- ‘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’
‘I have had a shock’
- vague
- unreliable narrative
‘as dead’
‘Tut-tut’
- shocking events are downplayed
- gentlemen determined to believe everything is normal -> desire to hide secrets
- secrecy presented through the hiding of emotion
‘ask himself’
‘cannot tell you’
- ‘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
‘cannot name’
‘respect my silence’
- said by jekyll
- secrecy presented through secrets kept by jekyll / utterson’s lack of knowledge
‘packet slept in the most inmost corner of his private safe’
- 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
ch.7 quotations
- ‘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’
‘a back way to Dr Jekyll’s’
- mystery solved - unreliable narration - utterson knew all along
- secrecy is presented through secrets hidden by utterson and his reservation
‘my cousin’
‘companion’
- 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
‘impossible’
‘the place is really not fit’
- 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
‘the window was instantly thrust down’
- 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
‘without a word’
‘pale’
‘answering horror’
‘in silence’
- 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
ch.8 quotations
- ‘the red baize door leaped up against the lock and hinges’
- ‘tough’
- ‘fifth’
- ‘lock burst’
‘the red baize door leaped up against the lock and hinges’
‘tough’
‘fifth’
‘lock burst’
- 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
chapter 9 quotations - put 8+9
- ‘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’
‘very strong, the lock excellent’
‘door stood open’
‘unlocked’
‘have to do much damage’
- 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
‘could make no guess’
‘of some salt’
- 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
‘series of dates’
- vague
- secrets kept /unreliable narration by lanyon
‘like a man restored from death’
‘known by the name of Hyde’
- secrecy presented through the big revelation found out in ch.8 and the solving of the murder (dr lanyon’s pov)
ch.10 quotations
- ‘concealed my pleasures’
- ‘profound duplicity of life’
- ‘such irregularities’
- ‘them’
- ‘deeper trench’
- ‘hard law of life’
- ‘root of religion’
- ‘partial discovery’
‘concealed my pleasures’
‘profound duplicity of life’
- 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
‘such irregularities’
‘them’
- 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
‘deeper trench’
‘hard law of life’
- 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 ….
‘root of religion’
- 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
‘partial discovery’
- 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
