The Search for Mr Hyde Flashcards
2 quotes to describe Lanyon’s character
“a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
“boisterous and decided manner”
A quote to show that Lanyon is reliable, so the reader trusts his judgement
“a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
Utterson and Lanyon’s friendship was “reposed on genuine feeling”. As the reader already has a trustful relationship with Utterson, in turn the reader would trust Lanyon.
3 quotes to show Hyde is animalistic
“hissing intake of breath”
“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
“something troglodytic”
3 quotes showing Hyde is inhumane
“pale and dwarfish”
“something troglodytic”
“impression of deformity”
A quote that highlights the duality within Hyde
“murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
Brief summary of chapter 2
Utterson can’t relax
He opens Jekyll’s will, it makes Hyde the benefactor
He goes to lanyon’s house but finds no answers
Utterson has a dream about Hyde attacking Jekyll
The next day Utterson confronts Hyde
2 quotes showing how Lanyon views Jekyll
“he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
“such unscientific balderdash”
A quote where Utterson dismisses Jekyll’s and Lanyon’s feud as insignificant.
“only differed on some point of science”
Utterson’s play on the playground game hide and seek suggests he perceives the hunt for Hyde to be a game.
“if he be Mr Hyde” “I shall be Mr Seek”
Jekyll’s house is amongst…
it’s “furnished with…
“handsome houses”
“furnished with costly cabinets of oak”
What does Utterson say Jekyll’s front room is?
“the pleasantest room in London”
What did Utterson see in the flame of Jekyll’s fireplace?
“read a menace in the flickering of the firelight”
What do all the servants have orders about?
“we have all orders to obey him”
What does Hyde never do at Jekyll’s house?
“he never dines here”
Towards the end of the chapter what does Utterson conclude Hyde must be a consequence of?
“the ghost of some old sin”
“hissing intake of breath”
“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
animalistic imagery of a snake
-inhumane
-ruthless
-sly/sneaky - will stop at nothing to take over Jekyll
hissing
-onomatopoeia
-physical pain
-fear
snarled
-wicked, malevolent
“murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
analysis
1 represents the duality of Jekyll and Hyde
“timidity” - Jekyll
“boldness” - Hyde
“mixture” - unpredictable which version you will get
oxymoron
-emphasis Hyde’s inhuman nature, and the idea he is a product of immorality
“timidity” - Hyde is new to the world
-like a child
-naive + uncivilised
-no conscience, doesn’t know how to act in society
“boldness”
-ruthless + confident
-isn’t born with repression or shame like others
“such unscientific balderdash”
analysis
structurally the division between 2 viewpoints of science is introduced early in the novella
-highlights it’s fundamental importance
Lanyon - traditional, rational, logical science
Jekyll - transcendental, undiscovered, mystical science
“he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
analysis
-Lanyon disagrees with Jekyll’s transcendental approach to science
-he’s intolerance of change
-ultimately his intolerance costs him his life
-suggesting Jekyll’s mentally unstable
-ironic as it’s Lanyon’s mental state which diminishes
-urges the reader to be cautious and wary of Jekyll, as his scientific beliefs are “wrong”
2 quotes surrounding Utterson’s ominous dream about the trampling of the little girl.
“that human juggernaut trod the child down”
“where his friend lay asleep”
