setting Flashcards
How is the exterior of Hyde’s house described - showing that human contact is not wanted.
“door equipped with neither bell nor knocker”
“showed no window”
“sinister block of building”
“blistered” “distained”
“the marks of prolongued and sordid negligence”
How is London personified to be animalistic?
“The low growl of London from all around”
How is Hyde’s house described from the outside?
“lying gaunt and silent”
How is London described to be a city where secrets and condemned behaviour is kept concealed?
“bystreet was very solitary” “very silent “fogged city”
How is the street described that contrasts Dr Jekyll’s house?
“thriving trade”
“an air of invitiation”
“gains in coquetry”
“smiling saleswomen”
“the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighborhood”
“general cleanliness and gaiety of note”
A quote show how polluted London was.
“A great chocolate covered pall lowered over heaven”
A referance to the urban gothic genre
“like a district of some city in a nightmare”
How is the inside of Hyde’s house described- showing great wealth and comfort?
“furnished with luxury and good taste”
“A closet was filled with wine”
“plate was of silver”
“the napery elegant”
How is Hydes house described- showing that it has been not well cared for?
“recently and hurridely ransacked”
“their pockets inside out”
“lockfast drawers stood open”
“pile of grey ashes”
When Utterson walks through the theatre to Dr jekylls cabinet- how is it described?
“dingy windowless structure”
“light falling dimly through the foggy cupola”
“dusty windows barred with iron”
“fog began to lie thickly”
How are the lamps desribed as burning red coal/red jewels?
“The lamps glimmered like carbuncles”
