Analysis memorising - Chapter 1 Extract 2

Question 1

black winter morning

Answer 1

gothic conventions - darkness is unsettling - unable to see vividly installs terror
dark sinister - gothic

Question 2

all the folks asleep

Answer 2

isolation - gothic - fear - alone abandonment , nobody to help you

Question 3

nothing to be seen but lamps

Answer 3

duality - juxtaposition of light and dark - motif

Question 4

as empty as a church

Answer 4

simile - hints at a rejection of religious values, the introduction of Hyde is the beginning of the moral disintegration of Victorian society

Question 5

trampled calmly over the child’s body

Answer 5

Hyde believes it is morally acceptable - aggressive, atavistic. very different from the facade used by victorian gentlemen to be liked
childs body- one of the most innocent and defenceless forms of life- Hyde is targeting people who are most vunerable

Question 6

it was hellish to see

Answer 6

religious connotations
Hyde is an indication that Victorian society is becoming immoral

Question 7

it wasn’t like a man

Answer 7

behaviour is not seen as human
utterson and enfield separating themselves from hyde
upper class separating themselves from the lower class - does not want to be seen as anything like Hyde