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
Uttersom dream about Jekyll in bed
Curtains of the bed plucked apart
Sexually charged dream utterson has to repress and keep his desires
Why does it matter that all the characters are unmarried
Brcuause theyre homo but can’t endulce in it
Tragedy of novel - we don’t accept people for who they are and demonise them
Who is oscar Wilde
Jailed as exposed for being gay 5 years after this book
Blackmail …. capers of the youth’
He believes all young men have given into sexual desires
Utterson wouldn’t her these desires as they were only appropriate in youth then they grow respectable
Description of Hyde
Slime of the pit
Should upsurp the offices of live
Language is like who would use ???
Pit means - hell
So Hyde evil exaggerated as he doesn’t really believe in hell and doesn’t make sense to him
Upsurp- to overcome
Jekyll has been overcome by Hyde
Deliberately uses complex language to poke fun at complex religion which decided there is a heaven and a hell not just life
Does Stevenson believe in religion
No doesn’t believe in god so give a Christian background as that’s what the readers wanted
But makes fun of their believe as he thinks
Christianity is an over exaggeration it’s not what life is really like
Maid
When she narrated that experience never had she felt more at peace with mean
Maid loved telling the story of Danvers crew murder
= undermines her and suggests not horrified by the brutal murderbut she’s delighted by it
Making fun of women
Accuse women of being bloodthirsty and violent and over exaggerate the murder
Mostly women readers
What does the body jumped upon tbe roadway at the same time as Hyde tramping the body
Stevenson is mocking this addiction to violence he feels women readers have
Women of different nationalists passing out key in hand to have a morning glass
What does utterson mean
Drinking gin in the morning
Characterising all women as alcoholics and suggests women in soho are like this
Hyde’s housekeeper description
Evil face but her manners were excellent
Stevenson saying women just like men have good manners in surface but underneath they’re all evil
Emphasise women evil as when we can see women evil but not Jekyll
One reason why tragedy happens is Jekyll has to operate with no friends
We’re inseparable friends
What if this should cost me another
Break down in friendship is caused by society’s values
Friendship couldn’t saved Jekyll
Quotes about drug taking
Fortress of identity - effect of drugs sakes you about - idea that u build up to be a good character is a myth eg utterson
I knew well that I risked death - Steve warning about overdose
Drug is wanted bitter bad
What did Hyde do on Jekyll religious book
Ape like tricks
Blasphemies
We could evolve back into as their genetics maybe be allow us to survive
B
Against god and Christianity been invented
Stevenson saying st end of the book Christianity is just a story and that’s why Hyde attacks the religious book
Good vs evil
What does I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it
Our original sin was cutting forbidden fruit so know we carry it with us
We all try to choose good but we lack in strength so choose evil
