Duality

Question 1

How and why is Duality presented through Jekyll?

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Answer 1

-Appearence
-Repression vs desire
-Good vs Evil

Question 2

Appearence quotes:

Answer 2

Jekyll: chpt3
-“Large, well made, smooth-faced man of fifty”
-“Large handsome face)

Hyde:
-“Pale and dwavish…he gave an impression of deformity”
“Loathing, disgust and fesar

Question 3

Repression vs Desire:

Answer 3

Jekyll: chpt 10
-“I concealed my pleasures”
-“Tortued by throes and longings… in an hour of moral weakness”

Question 4

Good vs evil

Answer 4

Hyde + inbetween:
-“Satan’s signature upon a face” -chpt2
-“Why had he a mask on his face?”- chpt 8 poole

Jekyll:
-“I swear to god.. I am done with him in this world.” chpt 5
-“Cry out upon the name of God.. cries to heaven!” chpt8 poole

Question 5

How is duality presented in Utterson?

Answer 5

-Obsession
-Respectibilty vs caring nature (homosexual)

Question 6

What shows Utterson’s obsession with Jekyll/Hyde?

Answer 6

First line of the book: chpt1
-“Mr Utterson the lawyer… He was austere with himself;”
Chapt 8:
-“Jekyll” cried Utterson, he will see him “if not by fair means then by foul… brute force”

Question 7

What presents Utterson’s inner conflict between victorian respectible mannerisms vs his inner care for Jekyll?

Answer 7

-“I incline to cain’s heresy” chpt 1
-“Fire…laying his hand on the others arm” chpt 2
-“Well, let our name be vengence” chpt 8

homosexuality- fannny threw fist copy in fire + illegal as of 1855

Question 8

How is duality presented through setting?

Answer 8

-Jekyll’s house
-London
-Weather

Question 9

How is duality shown in jekyll’s house?

Answer 9

Jekyll’s house:
-“Which wore a great air of wealth and comfort”-chpt 2
Hyde’s door:
-“Blistered and disdained” chpt 1(chpt called story of the door)

Question 10

How is duality shown in London?

Answer 10

Soho: Hyde’s
-“dismal soho…with it’s muddy ways and slatternly passengers…mournfal reinvasion of darkness.. some city in a nightmare… many women of different nationalities passing out”
-chpt 4

-Lanyon: chpt 2
“Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine”

Question 11

How is duality shown in the weather?

battle between light and dark

Answer 11

“A fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless”
Soho:
-“Haggard shaft of daylight would glance between the swirling wreaths (fog)” chpt 4

secrecy