Chapter 7 - Incident at the Window Flashcards
1
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Description of Jekyll as he does not leave his house
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“disconsolate prisoner”
2
Q
Description of how Jekyll’s face changes and the emotions of Utterson and Enfield when they see him change
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“an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below”
3
Q
Emotional response to seeing Jekyll’s face change
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“They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.”
4
Q
“God forgive us (…) God forgive us” – Utterson after he sports Jekyll in his window begin to transform into Hyde
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- Foregrounds Utterson as pious and deeply religious (and hence respectable) he pleads for penance through the imperative verb “forgive” as if by merely gazing upon the transformation of Jekyll/Hyde God has been sinned against.
- RLS feeds into the hysteria of Victorian society, who were deeply religious and hence would have abhorred the idea of crossing God
- collective pronoun ‘us’ perhaps indicates that society as a whole is sinful for feeding into their curiosities of barbarism, inciting hysteria once more
