Suspicion Flashcards

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‘Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes’

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Black associated with evil - brought on by mention of Hyde, J and H becoming more associated

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‘Taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner’

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Connotations of prisoner = crime and conviction - again starting to associate Jekyll with these things

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‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way’

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‘Suffer’ + ‘dark’ - associated with Hyde, lexical field almost of evil
Reminds us of Utterson ‘I let my brother go to the devil in his own way’ - suggests Jekyll is ‘going down’ - becoming more like Hyde

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