J+H Flashcards
(24 cards)
Furtive (sly)
Hyde as furtive
Truculent(ready to fight,cruel)
Hyde as truculent ‘broke out of all bounds’
‘ill-contained impatience’
Forbearance (restraint,patience)
Forbearance and repression in VL
Egregious(extremely bad)
Hyde and his actions as egregious
Trepidation (fear)
Poole feels trepidation
Opprobrium (shameful act, public act of disgrace)
Hyde killing Carew is seen as an extreme opprobrium
Irascible (quickly angered)
Hyde as irascible ‘ill-contained impatience’
‘Broke out of all bounds’
Irreverence (disrespect)
Hyde shows irreverence to Carew
Impertinent (rude)
Hyde as impertinent
Ineffable (can’t be talked about, abject)
The Carew murder as ineffable ‘in which the deed had been done’
Affable (friendly)
Jekyll, Utterson and other Victorian gentlemen as affable to maintain a respectable reputation
Mendacious (false, lying character)
Both jekyll and Hyde as mendacious
Perspicacious (quickly aware of someone’s personality and situation)
Utterson as perspicacious when he easily surmises Hyde’s character as mendacious
Misanthrope (hating and distrusting mankind)
Hyde as a misanthrope
Petulant conduct (rude manner)
Hyde has a petulant conduct
Didactic (intends to teach something)
J+H is a didactic novel which illustrates the dual nature of man
Perdition (loss of the soul,hell)
Jekyll ends up in perdition due to his other self
Debauched (transgressive, sinful)
Lower class (soho) was known to have debauched living standards
Stratified society
A clear split between upper and lower class
Incongruous duality
Disorderly, unharmonised dual nature of man
Inexplicable depravity of society
Stevenson illustrates the inexplicable depravity of society (the unexplainable corruption)
Pious (context)
Victorian audience were very pious
Evil endowed in Hyde
Evil is innate in him, has been woven into him, unfixable
Reader feels repugnance and abhorrence from Hyde’s callous actions
‘The bones were audibly shattered’
Creates visceral disgust
