Setting Flashcards
Chapter 1: story of the door
Presented as ambiguous and stratified through the juxtaposition of good and evil
‘Freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses and general cleanliness and gaiety of note’
The door was ‘blistered and distained’
‘Marks of prolonged and sordid negligence’
Sordid- suggests immoral actions
Chapter 2: search for mr hyde
Setting is presented as evil and dark through the arrival of Mr Hyde
Jekyll’s house ‘wore a great air of wealth and comfort’
‘It was now plunged in darkness’
Chapter 4: the Carew murder case
Setting is presented as violent and dangerous through the weather’s atavistic personification
The wind was ‘charging’
The cab ‘crawled’
‘mournful reinvasion of darkness’
‘Like a district of some city in a nightmare’
Chapter 8: the last night
Setting as vicious, sadistic through their association with pain and blood
‘It was a wild,cold,seasonable night of march’
The moon was ‘pale’
The wind ‘flecked the blood into the face’
Trees were ‘lashing themselves’
‘Biting weather’
