Chapter 5 -8 Flashcards
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What happens in chapter 5?
Utterson visits Jekyll and Jekyll says he will make Hyde disappear and that he isn’t hiding Hyde. Jekyll shows Utterson a letter, signed by Hyde that thanks Jekyll and says he has disappeared. Utterson no longer thinks Jekyll is being blackmailed by Hyde. Jekyll says this letter is hand delivered but Poole says nothing has come through post. Mr Guest compares this letter with one from Jekyll. Utterson comes to conclusion that Jekyll forged this letter to protect Hyde.
How did Jekyll hear of the news of The Carew murder?
- Newsboys shouting
- CONTEXT: There were complaints about how loud newsboys were.
- Suits a way for Jekyll to hear abbout the news that is plausible to Utterson.
How does Jekyll plead to Utterson?
Give a quote….
- “I bind my honour to you.”
- Using their close relationship
- Relying on good reputation of himself to cover up his deceit.
- He is desperate to keep his reputation
How is Jekyll described as physically changed in Chapter 5?
- “Dr Jekyll, looking deathly sick.”
- Gothic element
- His external self is reflecting his internal, rotten core.
- This rotten core has been deepened after The Carew Murder.
- “feverish manner” –> jittery
Give a quote that shows that Jekyll forged the letter.
“Henry Jekyll forge, for a murderer.”
What does Jekyll say to Utterson when Utterson asks for the enevlope of Hyde’s letter in Chapter 5?
- I burnt it!!
- He says the letter was hand- delivered
- Find out from Poole that no letters were hand delivered.
What does Utterson conclude Hyde wanting to do to Jekyll before he escaped?
- Hyde wanted to murder Jekyll to get the money.
What is Utterson’s reaction to Mr Guest, his clerk, deciphering the letter?
- “he struggled with himself.”
- Knows what is going to happen to his friend’s reputation
- Shown by the fact he doesn’t go to the police
What is the study of graphology?
- Graphology is the study of handwriting style to discover something about personality or mental state.
- Mr Guest looks at Hyde’s handwriting to decide whether he is mad.
- Unravelling Jekyll’s facade. Jekyll’s internal state becomes obvious, his internal state is the same as Hyde’s.
- He is unable to disguise who he really is.
- We can never change who we are inside.
Give a quote about the fog from chapter 5.
-“ fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city”
Gothic atmosphere of death
Duality associated with Jekyll, contrats to the warm light from city lamps.
What happens in chapter 6?
Jekyll was back to normal for 2 months but then secluded himself again, refused to speak to Utterson. Utterson meets Lanyon and Lanyon says Jekyll is dead to him. Lanyon is very ill. Utterson writes to Jekyll, asking why he isn’t speaking to him. Jekyll says he must be secluded and reaffirms that Jekyll and Lanyon are on bad terms. Lanyon dies and Utterson receives a package, saying that it can’t be opened until the death/ disappearance of Jekyll.
How does Stevenson create contrast between Jekyll and Hyde in the first paragraph in Chapter 6?
- Hyde is “callous and violent” (barbaric)
- Jekyll: “no less distinguished for religion.” –> conscience
- This goodness if quickly taken back to a negative side.
- STRUTURE: never able to predict sequence of events, Hyde quickly recliams power
Battle between good and evil
How is Lanyon described in Chapter 6?
- “death warrant written legibly upon his face.”
- Lambrosso’s theory.
- This is the way HE LOOKS, the rational side of what Utterson can see.
- HOWEVER
- There is a “deep seated terror.”
- Duality between supernatural and rationality.
What is the quote in chapter 6 that speaks about Jekyll’s sin of being evil?
“If i am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
- The idea that sin leads to punishment is evident in the novella.
- Chapter : Utterson thinks there must be “some old sin” that led to Hyde blackmail.
- Knows what he is doing: “I have bought this on myself.”
- Playing God… against religion:
- The supernatural should be left alone.
How does Jekyll’s line in his letter (chapter 6), “suffer me to my own dark way” reflect Utterson’s previous statement?
- Chapter 1: “I let my brother go to the devil.”
- Utterson can withstand this without judging Jekyll - the opposite of Lanyon.
What’s ironic about the fact that Hyde is described as having old tales in his past?
ie. his associates
- He hasn’t got any associates or a past
- He existed when Jekyll made him.
- Narrator relates these false beliefs to keep up the mystery of Hyde.
What is Utterson’s conclusion about Lanyon’s illness?
- Lanyon noticed the illness in himself and is scared of dying.
- This is another wrong assumption from Utterson that keeps action going.
What does Lanyon say that adds to the mysterious, gothic element of novella?
- “if we knew all we should be more glad to get away.”
- Some mysteries are better unsaid.
- left to conjecture
What happens in chapter 7?
Enfield and Utterson are on their Sunday walk. Enfield points out that the shabby door is in fact the back entrance to Jekyll’s laboratory. They go to visit Jekyll, seeing him from his window. Jekyll refuses to see them even saying his room isn’t fit for them to come in. They almost see Jekyll turn into Hyde but Jekyll slams the window shut in time. The pair are horrified.
Why does Utterson chose to not open the package that came to him in the post in chapter 6?
- Not to be opened until death or disappearance of Henry Jekyll.
- He needs to keep to this “professional honour.” (more than to share information to help the police.)
What is the time - frame like in Chapter 7, why does Stevenson do this?
- Short
- Shows they can’t unsee what they saw: one- way nature of events.
- The horror is bought home by the sudden nature:
- starting on a chill walk
- Their silence immediately after
- Abrupt end to the chapter.
- Quickly went from innocent to scarred for life.
How does time vary between chapters?
- Chapter 1 and 2 in the same day
- Chapter 3 and 4 within span of year
- Isn’t fully described so the reader can imagine how much Hyde’s evil nature would’ve developed.
What do we learn in Chapter 7 about the mystery door and Jekyll’s house?
- We learn that they are connected.
- This would’ve been shocking for Victorian readers piecing it all together.
How does Stevenson give an eerie feel to the courtyard?
“very cool a little damp, and full of premature twilight.”
- Juxtaposition in courtyard
- Nothing seems concrete, getting a sense of Hyde, from the way Stevenson juxtaposes.
- Premature –> underdeveloped!!
- Space is dark, showing his gloom.
- Gothic atmosphere but also direct feelings.
