Jekyll And Hyde - Secrecy Flashcards
Beginning quotes
‘bargain never to refer to this again’ - Mr Emmerson said to Utterson after telling him about the door
‘scientific balderdash ‘ although Dr Lanyon made it clear he didn’t agree with Jekyll’s work he doesn’t reveal his secret
Middle quotes
‘I have had a shook’
‘this will make a deal of noise’
‘identical’ handwriting - a clue
‘They saw it but for a glimpse’ - Utterson and his cousin saw Jekyll
End quotes
‘that thing in the mask was never Dr Jekyll’ Poole has discovered Jekyll is missing
‘I saw what I saw’ - Jekyll shared his secret with Lanyon –> leads to Lanyon’s death - ‘submerged in terror’
‘Henry Jekyll’s full Statement of the Case’ - Dr Jekyll confesses all of his secrets explaining them in full to Utterson for the whole of chapter 10
Conclusion
Talk about the fact that Jekyll believes ‘that man is not truly one, but truly two’
The repressed Victorian led to Jekyll believing strongly in the ‘duplicity of life’
Victorian reader
Novel is narrated in a way that make the Victorian reader believe for a long time that Jekyll and Hyde are two different people.
Modern reader
Would probably know the story while before reading it therefore can understand Jekyll presents the good and Hyde presents the bad.