jekyll and hyde eoy10 analysis

Question 1

‘the fog rolled over the city into the small hours (fear/mystery)

Answer 1

‘fog’ - pathetic fallacy, fog mirrors confusion and secrecy
mystery - fog is used to hide things - shows uncertainty or moral ambiguity
gothic- creates sinister eerie atmosphere
‘rolled’ invasive + unstoppable

Question 2

‘with ape like fury, he was trampling his victim’

Answer 2

simile - ape like, animalistic, savage - creates fear
volient and unpredictable
less than human

Question 3

‘it wasn’t like a man ; it was like some damned juggernaut’

Answer 3

dehumanises hyde and presents him as supernatural
‘damned’ - religious condemnation, context - victorian christian values, moral connotations
fear of the unnatural - stevenson uses gothic methods to reflect victorian fears - challenging traditional beliefs
one of hydes first descriptions, instils fear

Question 4

though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty year’ - utterson

Answer 4

respectable victorian gentleman - reputation matters more than enjoyment
- not unusual for a victorian gentleman
contradictory
missing out - creates sympathy
-public/private - maintains reputation - repression
theatre symbolises desires
utterson represents respectability
‘twenty years’ long duration, deep fear

Question 5

‘lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable’ utterson

Answer 5

-shows utterson as an ordinary character
-long list represent uttersons long and dreary personality
-serious and respectable
juxtaposition symbolises uttersons character
alliteration
shows repression as a victorian everyman

Question 6

‘if he be mr hyde, i shall be mr seek’ utterson

Answer 6

shows uttersons inquisitive and persistent nature
hyde - reference to symbolic hiding
hyde - the id - jekyll hidden subconscious
foreshadowing - same person
loyalty as friend and lawyer

Question 7

‘my devil had long been caged, he came out roaring’ hyde

Answer 7

-consequences of repression
‘devil’ - religious imagery - victorian context - sin - association with the devil
cage represents constraints of social expectations, moral and social rules
reflects victorian emphasis on morality and evil
conflict within jekyll + hyde
‘my’ - possession / torment

Question 8

‘snarled a savage laugh’ hyde

Answer 8

‘snarled’ - bestial nature
‘savage’ laugh - uncivilised - devoid or moral and social restraints
- sibilance - bestial nature
bestiality and untamed fury
juxtaposition- ‘snarled’ ‘laugh’ conveys evil and separation from victorian gentlemen

Question 9

‘trampled calmy.. like some damned juggernaut’ hyde

Answer 9

-hyde is first introduced as he tramples the girl - sets up hyde as a character
juxtaposition - ‘trampled’ ‘calmly’ - lack of consideration + force - inhumane
-brutal vocabulary- shocks reader
simile- presents him as an unstoppable force - foreshadowing - glimpse into escalating violence

Question 10

)smooth faced man of fifty with something of a slyish cast’ - jekyll

Answer 10

-physically prosperous
-smooth faced - time
foreshadowing
physiognomy - victorian
-admirable but deceitful

Question 11

‘the moment i choose i can be rid of mr hyde’ jekyll

Answer 11

foreshadowing
respression effects - loss of control
illusion of control + naivety

Question 12

‘man is not truly one but truly two’ jekyll

Answer 12

duality - morality - suppression
dual nature challenged victorian moral code
‘truly’ emphasis
civilised vs irrational side - not distinct

Question 13

‘some disconsolate prisoner’ jekyll

Answer 13

jekyll becomes prisoner to hyde
can peres’s hyde at start but becomes helpless
stevenson warning against ignoring dual nature
creates sympathy through mental agonies