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26 Cards in this Set
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When the wine was to his taste |
Utterson is high class-he has access to, can choose, and knows a lot about wine. |
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That was the Lawyer's way |
Utterson lives by his own rules |
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Lifted up his cane and pointed |
Utterson is wealthy and well dressed. Trying to look like a higher class than he is. |
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Deformed. Like some dammed Juggernaut. So ugly. With a black sneering coolness. Savage laugh. It is an odd hand. Ape like fury. Like a madman. Stumping along. |
Hyde is seen to be lower down the evolutionary chain and of a lower class. He is a Savage. Even his writing is Deformed. It is an odd hand: he is not even human |
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The well known man about the town. |
Enfield is important and respectable. Men were seen to be more important. |
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The bystreet was very solitary, and in spite of the low growl of London. Use of personification and onomatopoeia. |
Compares new noise of machinery from the industrial revolution and the Tube to the threat of sneering animals. Solitary suggests he is alone. Creates fear and tension. |
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Mr Utterson began to haunt the door |
Haunts shows he is being silent and sneaky around the door. Middle class and didn't want to be associated with the peasant door (why he is doing it at night) Determined to find Hyde - Haunts suggests how long he has been waiting. Use of metaphor |
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The moment I choose; I can be rid of Mr Hyde |
Jekyll doesn't like Hyde |
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A very great interest in poor Hyde |
Jekyll is worried about what will happen to Hyde. In contrast to The moment I choose I can be rid of Mr Hyde. |
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A sincere and warm affection |
Jekyll really likes Utterson |
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A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven. |
Describes the smog from coal fires/factoties and pollution from the low growl of London. |
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The dismal quarter of Soho... Like a district of some city of a nightmare |
Mist of London was Gothic. |
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Mr Hyde only used a couple of rooms but they were finished with luxury and good taste. |
Hyde is lower class and is unlikely to be able to tastefully decorate a room. He only used a couple of rooms because he is a little man |
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The carpets were of many pikes and agreeable in colour. |
If Hyde is lower class, why does he have luxury carpets? Agreeable is only a mediocre compliment. |
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Themes Fundamental idea that runs through the whole text. |
Duality - good vs evil, dual human nature Man is not truly one but truly two.
Importance of reputation: I will say nothing I see the body. Utterson has a fear of losing his reputation.
Science - Victorians were making progress |
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Motifs Running structures/ devices which support the themes |
Urban terror
Violence against innocence - like when Sir Danvers Crew is murdered.
Silence and secrets. Lots of mystery. People can't describe Hyde. |
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Symbols Objects, characters, colours that add to the themes/ Motifs. |
Jekyll's house/lab. House represents Jekyll but the sinister lab represents Hyde.
Hyde's physical appearance - so ugly that people thought he was a criminal.
Religion - angel and the devil (Jekyll and Hyde) |
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Context |
Danvers Crew had a very high reputation and people would have struggled to believe why someone would murder him.
The maid fainted: women were seen to be weak and feeble.
Reputation was very important. I shall say nothing until I have seen the body.
Soho is notorious for seedings and criminality. If it came to a trial your name might appear. Anyone could watch a trial. |
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Good God, sir! |
Carew's murder is shocking enough to permit blasphemy. Scotland would have had less strict rules than London. Sir shows he is correcting himself after an embarrassing slip. |
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Clouded brow |
Utterson is worried about the will |
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Grew pale to the very lips |
Face drains of colour. |
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Save me my dear Lanyon |
In need, pleading tone. |
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Trifling |
Means worthless, though sounds like he is brandishing his cane. |
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Broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping his foot, brandishing the cane, like a madman. Broke out of all bounds. Clubbed him to the earth. Ape like fury. Clubbed him to the earth. Trampling his victim underfoot. Hailing down a storm of blows. Bones were audibly shattered. |
Shows how brutal the murder was. |
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The maid fainted. |
A dull sentence after the vivid description of Carew's murder. Shows the quickness of her fainting, since women were seen at the time to be weak and feeble. |
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Trampled calmly |
Use of oxymoron shows Hyde's lack of judgement and remorse |