Jekyll & Hyde Flashcards
(27 cards)
HYDE
Animal imagery??
like a rat
Snarled
Ape-like fury
Creature
HYDE
Appearing odd?
Pale and dwarfish
Impression of deformity
HYDE
Satans
Satans signature upon a face
HYDE
hissing…
Hissing intake of breath
HYDE
Progression of attacks
With the girl
- trampled calmly
With Carew
- stamping
- like a madman
HYDE
murder of Carew
Audibly shattered
Incredibly mangled
Great flame of anger
HYDE
His anger
Ape-like fury
Great flame of anger
HYDE
Like some…
Like some damned juggernaut
SETTING
The lab
Gaunt and silent
Dingy windowless structure
Windows barred with iron
SETTING
The door/front of lab
Blistered and distained
Sordid negligence
Blind forehead of discoloured wall
SETTING
Neighbourhood
Like rows of smiling saleswomen
Like a fire in a forest
Florid charms
SETTING
Jekylls house
A great air of wealth and comfort
Comfortable
SETTING
soho/ Hydes house
Dingy street
Dismal quarter of soho
Ragged children
Muddy ways
BUT furnished in luxury and good taste
SETTING
significance of soho?
The crime area of London at the time, very poor and quite dangerous
SETTING
significance of windows and doors??
- link to the theme of secrecy
- openings/transparent
- protection from outside (like in the lab)
- ‘neither bell nor knocker’
- locks up ingredients and letters
- Jekyll/Hyde locks himself up at the end
THEMES
what are the themes??
Reputation
Duality
Science & religion
Secrecy
THEMES
how is secrecy shown?? key examples??
- through use of windows/doors (as explained on other cards)
- plot gaps and unanswered questions (e.g where was Enfield coming from when he bumped into the girl?? What was uttersons shameful past??)
- link to Victorian culture and society
Symbolic moment - smashing cabinet doors (Poole and utterson), ultimately breaking down Jekylls walls of secrecy
THEMES
Explain Freud??
Id - instinct, primitive
Ego - realistic, organised, mediates between desires of both
Superego - critical, morals, society driven good
THEMES
Reputation?? In context??
Victorian culture
- being a ‘gentleman’
- upholding a respectable, controlled image
- resisting primitive desires
- secrecy
- huge gap between lower and upper class
THEMES
Reputation in characters??
Lots of characters are driven by their fear of scaring their reputation e.g
- utterson restraining himself from enjoyment
- no public opinion “tut tut”
- the cheque book
- going at night
- Jekyll ultimately splits himself to control his desires and uphold his respectable reputation
THEMES
Science and religion??
Darwins theory was well known at the time
- disregarded due to religious conflicts
- Hyde is primitive
Evangelism
- all people are evil
- Jekylls science was against religion, Landon disowns him for this
- supernatural scaring Victorians
SETTING
Using weather??
Pathetic fallacy
Dark and foggy
- obscuring knowledge/vision
- in soho ‘degrees and hues of twilight’ and ‘changing glimpses’
- isolates characters and plot
- adding to secrecy and mystery
JEKYLL
A large…
A large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty
JEKYLL
Every mark…
Every mark of capacity and kindness
