Fear and Horror Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Stevenson establishes scenes to create horror throughout the novella
A
- Fear of unknown and uncanny
- Fear is presented as roobbing indiividuals of there freedom
- Fear’s power whcih inflicts a sense of shame
2
Q
‘The man trampled calmly over the child’s body’
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- Juxtaposition
- establishes the brutality of Hyde
- adverb ‘calmly’ suggests a disregard for human life
- Horrifying image
3
Q
‘Fog rolled over the city’
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- Pathetic fallacy
- obscures the secrets
- mystery and tension
4
Q
‘Ape-Like fury trampling his victim’
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- Charles Darwin theory of evolution
- Hyde is the less evolved side to Jekyll
- compares Hyde to animal
- unrestrained nature
5
Q
‘Like some disconsolate prisone’
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- similie compares jekyll to a prisoner
- trapped by his own dual nature
- loss of freedom and control
- sorrow emphasises emotional toll of secrecy
6
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‘A dismal screech as of mere animal terror’
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- reinforces Hydes animalistic and inhumna qualities
- sdjective ‘dismal’ = dark and gloomy
- ‘screech’ - sudden action = fear
- unsettling imagery
7
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‘with almost morbid sense of shame’
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- adjective ‘morbid’ has connotations of death
- embarrassment
- guilt
- fear of moral failure
8
Q
Stevensons Intentions through the theme of horror and fear
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- the real horror is from within - human instincts and desires
- readers belief in science, religion and reputation creates inevetiable fear
- horror acts a punishment for denial of darker urges
9
Q
How is fear presented
A
- setting
- physical reactions
- gothic mystery
- symbolism
- contrast
