Themes Flashcards
What does like a Juggernaut show
Adjective contrast with damned emphasising the power of Hyde’s evil to Enfield
Christian illusion of damned- ironic as Hyde little
Steven being ironic as he’s over exaggerating the trampling all he’s done is step over a girl
Its reaction that’s evil
Little man
Not recognised unmasked
Stevenson sides with Hyde as he doesn’t repress his feeling and actually because he doesn’t everyone doesn’t really know what to make of him
Expected to make alter ego
I am naturally helpless name your figure
Speaks honest Victorian gentlemen
Being taken advantage of
Stevenson showing how this repressed side isn’t even a bad side it’s just coming away from being so strict with ur selves but the way hide reacts is everyone’s reaction to this deviation
Stevenson’s idea on appearances
The idea you can tell by looking at someone is ridiculous doesn’t believe in division
We are a mixture like JEKYLL
Quite large handsome face of Dr Jekyll
Presented as an attractive man as stevajkn says you can’t look at peoples look as hiv e got to look at their personality
Great air of wealth and discomfort though it was now plunged in darkness’s
Personification
All respectable properties see in London contain people like Jekyll who appear to be good but else is going on inside
Fog began to lie thickly
Dr Jekyll looking deadly sick
As Jekyll becomes more evil dog comes into the house and we confuse what looks respectable to what is sin ful
Fog metaphor of Hyde doors and windows - secrets
Leicester Square is next door to soho so Hyde is next door to Jekyll = two sides of the same place
Good and evil side by side Stevenson would expect his readers to instantly realise what he was up to
Utterson visists soho after Hyde kills Danvers
What does first fog of the season
And a great chocolate coloured pahl lowered over heaven suggest
Great chocolate could suggest pleasures of senses
Put this directly juxtaposes pahl as it’s a coffin lid = death
Fog is obscuring heaven suggesting god is dead
Suggesting Hyde’s pleasures are cashing death and the fog is suggesting how Jekyll wants to keep this hidden
Hyde’s part of Jekyll house
Blind forehead of disscoiloture wall on the upper
Personification of blínd suggesting the blíndess of society and the way their rejecting evil within it as Stevenson says we all Have a dual nature
ENFIELD was out at 3am????
Hyde house is furnished with luxury and good taste
Everyone thinks soho is sinfulness as associates with crime and prostitution
EVEN if Hyde has a lot of redeeming educated qualities society critisce all of them so what Stevenson is saying is Victorian society at the time was evil and he in fact rejected this society and moved away after writing this book
Jekyll turned into Hyde without the drugs
Animal within in me licking the chops or memory
To Jekyll Hyde not evil as he’s acting on natural instinct as a animal
Man is not truly one but truly two
Stevenson asking for a more mature understanding rather than condemning people like Hyde who just do things they shouldn’t
We all have a dual nature
Polar twins suggest
We can’t get rid of the evil within us and oerohaps we shouldn’t try to and accept it
Polar means half of good and evil
Twins suggest same person
What does braced and delighted me like wine suggest
Natural pleasure
Christians are alcoholics and sinful
What does Queer Street suggest by Enfield
Eveuone suspects that Hyde is in a homo relationships as why else would Jekyll blackmailed
