Henry Jekyll Flashcards
How is Jekyll initially described as a gentleman (chapter 3)
‘reputable man’ → appears trustworthy
‘smooth faced man of fifty’ → wise and welcoming
‘large handsome face’ → appealing qualities suggest that he is good natured
‘every mark of capacity and kindness’ → generous, open, good person
How is Jekyll presented as secretive (chapter 3)
‘grew pale to the very lips’ → change from good to evil (when the will is mentioned)
Suggests he has unpleasant motives (perhaps hyde has briefly come out trying to get jekyll to be quiet)
‘blackness about his eyes’ → obscurity / hidden. Trying to hide the truth
‘A trifle sharply’ → (response to utterson asking the will’ shows Jekyll is nervous and that this is a touchy subject
‘This is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep’ → he is worried utterson will discover the truth
Worried about his addiction
Ideas of ‘private’ contrast Jekylls seemingly open and loving nature
How is Jekyll shown to be ‘sick’ in chapter 5
‘Held out a cold hand’ → ideas of a corpse, and the ‘good’ jekyll being dead
‘Bade him welcome in a changed voice’ → change voice suggests he is unwell + foreshadows that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person
Ideas of the supernatural, changed suggesting he is unusual and strange
Also setting descriptions
What does jekyll say showing duality
Chapter 10:
‘man is not truly one but truly two’
→ suggesting people are made of two individuals
‘independent denizens’
→ ideas of man being made of multiple parts
What were Jekylls scientific views
He believed in the mystic and supernatural
‘led wholly to the mystic and transcendental’ (chapter 9)
Challenging ‘old views’ and perhaps religion
How does Jekyll appear when Enfield and Utterson see him at the window (Ch7)
‘like some disconsolate prisoner’ → similie expreses Jekylls aparent dispair at how he has trapped himself
Disconsolate suggests he is unhappy
‘smile struck out his face’
‘an expression of abject terror and dispair’
→ Hyde is taking over / inflicting pain on Jekyll
Jekyll is scared realising he can no longer control hyde
How does Jekyll talk about hyde being ‘released’ in chapter 10
‘my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’
Biblical imagery used to demonise hyde
‘roaring’ shows animalistic qualities suggesting hyde is natural
Emphasises the aggression and primitive nature of hyde (ideas of the Id)
How does Jekyll enjoy being Hyde (evidence)
‘i felt younger, lighter, happier in body’
→ constraints of public beliefs have been removed
He can act how he pleases without his name being tarnished
Chapter 10
