House as a metaphor J+H

Question 1

“Wore a great air of wealth and comfort”

Answer 1

• Personifies the house as appearing to be
  good, but worse on the inside
• Darkness - symbolic of evil.
• House is a metaphor of Jekyll

Question 2

“for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deadly sick.

Answer 2

• As Jekyll becomes more evil, the fog enters the house.
• A metaphor for how we confuse what looks respectable for what is actually evil

Question 3

“A certain sinister block of builidng thrust foward its gable on the street”

Answer 3

• Thrust sounds like a violent house

Question 4

“Blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence”

Answer 4

• Personification of house - no windows
• If you don’t pay attention to your evil instincts, they’ll take over

Question 5

“the door… was blistered and distained”
“the schoolboy had tried his knife”

Answer 5

• The part of us we keep out of society
• The schoolboy represents all of us who can commit sins