Themes Flashcards
Enfield Example of keeping up appearances
wary and reserved with story of the door
All themes?
Keeping up appearances, duality of man, violence, female, lack of communication, rational vs irational, London,
Utterson Example of keeping up appearances
Doesn’t tell police about jekyll’s connection to Hyde
Drinking in the dark
Jekyll Example of keeping up appearances
Need for Hyde His home (in contrast to hydes run down home)
Examples of duality
Jekyll and Hyde
London( “foggy,dreary, nightmarish place” as well as “well kept, bustling centre of commerce”)
Examples of violence
Hydes unprovoked murder of Carew
Hydes trampling of little girl
Hydes suicide
Significance of hydes suicide
In suicide he kills both himself and Jekyll, who were both guilty, thereby making stevensons point that advocates of violence will be punished
Examples of women
Girl trampled- requires many people to save her
Maid - she feints, delaying the investigation (a hindrance)
Jekyll’s maid- sobs loudly, potentially alerting Hyde to their presence
Examples of lack of communication
Enfield - revealing Hyde as the incident of the door
Uttersons- alerting the police to j+h’s relation
Main motivation for lack of communication
Maintaining someone’s reputation
Why could no one describe Hyde accurately?
As a product of the supernatural ,he is beyond logic, and therefore beyond speech
Significance of the extremely supernatural ending
Complete contrast to the 100% realistic rest of the book
Conclusion to rationality vs. irrationality
In the conclusion H+J die, but u+e survive, rationality wins, they can’t co-exist
Why did London enable j+h?
Due to the large bustling nature of it, they could roam unnoticed and anonymously
