Jekyll and Hyde Flashcards
(30 cards)
‘the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile’
Strange because of his job
‘discourse’
Talk
‘sentiment’
Feeling
‘sinister’
Evil
‘did negligence’
Suffering
‘I was coming home from some place at the end of the world’
Vague about where he has been
‘listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.’
Foreshadowing
‘for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground’
Hyde
Emphasis of violence
Juxtaposition
‘It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut’
Dehumanises
‘Sawbones’
Doctor - Wants to kill Hyde
‘I feel very strongly about putting questions;’
Doesn’t like to talk about other people
‘He is not easy to describe’
‘something’
‘deformed’
‘deformity’
Dehumanises
‘I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again’
Someone else is involved in the situation
‘Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath’
Description of Mr. Hyde
‘The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh’
Description of Mr. Hyde
‘the man seems hardly human’
dehumanises Mr. Hyde
‘troglodytic’
Talking about Mr. Hyde
‘a boisterous and decided manner’
Dr Lanyon is a cheerful, lively and affectionate character
‘This was a hearty, healthy, dapper red-faced gentleman’
Description of Dr. Lanyon
‘a lover of the sane and customary sides of life’
Reference to the Victorian gentleman society and its attitudes
‘I have seen devilish little of the man’
Dr Lanyon and Jekyll can’t put their scientific differences aside and do not see each other anymore
‘lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable’
Mr Utterson is a serious and solemn lawyer who is not explicitly expressive
‘He had an approved tolerance for others…’
Mr Utterson is an understanding character who has the willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour
‘a fog rolled over the city’
Pathetic fallacy