chapter 8

Question 1

“a wild cold seasonable night”

Answer 1

• “cold” adjective = isolation, harshness, attacking
• “wild” adjective = uncontrollable
• pathetic fallacy relflecting sinister, chaotic, violent events, unsettling, suspense

Question 2

“strangling anguish”

Answer 2

• “anguish” adjective = sever distress
• “strangling” adverb = intense, emotional collapse

Question 3

quote to describe servants in ch.8

Answer 3

“servants…stood huddled together like a flock of sheep”

Question 4

“servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a flock of sheep”

Answer 4

• “sheep” = simile, scared, helplessnes, timid, vulnerable
  -> follow others, terrified
• “huddled” - verb = protection
• “men and women” = it already says servants so to add the appositive “men and women” shows severity of situation as men are as scared as the women at the time this would have implied a serious threat

Question 5

“bless God! It’s Mr utterson” (the cook said this when utterson came)

Answer 5

• dramatic
• “god” shows extreme fear as god would protect you, vulnerable
• utterson is a trsuted man and very respectable, saviour = could link to aptronym - gabriel, archangel imagery, reliable, trustowrthy

Question 6

(poole) - “when he spoke, harsh and broken.”

Answer 6

• tension
• desperate to control their emotions

Question 7

“a man sorely contorted ans still twitching” - describes jekyll

Answer 7

• “contorted” = deformed
• “still twitching” = uncontrollable
• unnatural, boundries of human nature are bluured in gothic atmoshpere of the novel’s theme
• suffering

Question 8

“weeping like a woman or a lost soul” - poole decribes jekyll in ch.8

Answer 8

• simile to like a woman = would imply weakness at the time, vulnerablility, no dignity or rationality, men were meant to show emotional restraint
• “lost soul” = despair, hopelessness, jekyll is torn between his identities, inability to control himself

Question 9

quote to describe jekyll when utterson found him in ch.8

Answer 9

“a man sorely contorted ans still twitching”

Question 10

quote to compare jekyll to a woman

Answer 10

“weeping like a woman or a lost soul”

Question 11

quote to show us in ch.8 that jekyll killed himslef

Answer 11

“utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer”

Question 12

“utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer”

Answer 12

• “self destroyer” = strong moral condemnation of the act of suicide (suicide was illigal at the time)
• act was a source of moral hooror and family disgrace throughout the victorian period