Secrets Flashcards
Utterson has done ‘many ___ things’
Many ill things
Can’t say what they are- shameful and will damage reputation so they’re a secret.
Uttersons response to hearing about trampled girl
‘Tut-tut’
Shows that gentlemen are determined to pretend everything is normal. Links with reputation.
‘Cannot _____’
‘Cannot share’
Enfield
Secrets kept to keep reputation.
‘______ and ______envelope’
‘Sealed and stamped envelope’
Secrets motif
Chapter 4
‘Sealed’ ‘stamped’ verb
‘Window was instantly _____ ____’
‘Window was instantly thrust down’
Jekyll keeping the secret of Hyde from his friends.
‘Thrust’ verb
C7
‘A ___ rolled over the ____’
‘A fog rolled over the city’ Chapter 4 Pathetic fallacy + represents Mr Utterson’s mind. Gothic description. ‘Fog’ noun
‘He opened his ____’
‘He opened his safe’
Chapter 2
Secrets motif
‘Safe’ noun
‘I was ______ home from ____ _____ at ___ ___ __ ___ _____ about _ o’clock of a _____ ______ morning’
I was coming home from some place at the end of the world about 3 o’clock of a black winter morning.
Enfields narrative
The dark side of Victorian society: what was Enfield doing there?
With something of a ______ ____
With something of a slyish cast
Sly- showing cunning or deceitful nature (fox)
Shows that Jekyll is hiding these traits of his personality behind his ‘large handsome face’
‘Cast’- to appear on the surface
Jekylls laboratory windows
‘Windowless’- so people cant see in
‘Dusty windows barred with iron’ -to keep people out: secrecy
C5