Jekyll + Hyde - CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Duality between Utterson and Enfield:
A
- Utterson is “Austere”
VIC GENT - Enfield is a “well known man about town”
NOT VIC GENT - we begin to see duality from the very beginning of the novella
2
Q
The door is…
A
- “blistered” and “distained”
- personification
- secrecy and mystery
- stands out
3
Q
“I incline to….”
A
- “I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”
- Utterson
- Utterson will act in the opposite way with regard to Jekyll, showing great concern for his moral and physical downfall.
4
Q
How did Hyde trample over the girl?
A
- “trampled calmly”
- “left her screaming”
- gothic fiction
- immediate idea of insanity
5
Q
“it wasn’t like a….”
A
- “it wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut”
- Enfield describing Hyde
- gothic
6
Q
“so ugly..”
A
- “so ugly that it brought the sweat out on me like running”
- Enfield describing Hyde
- Gothic fiction
- Stevenson is depicting the physical reactions which Hyde brings out on a man
- establishes Hyde as the antithesis of Utterson
- Darwin’s theory of evolution
7
Q
What happens in Chapter 1?
A
- Enfield and Utterson are out on their walk
- Enfield tells Utterson what they have seen
