Moment 1: The Story of the Door

Question 1

‘like rows of smiling saleswomen’

Answer 1

simile / sibilance - London has a dual nature

Question 2

‘the street shone out in contrast to it’s dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest’

Answer 2

The ‘hope’ is juxtaposed with the malice and danger of a ‘forest fire’.

simile - outlines that there is a divide between the poorer and the wealthier parts of London

Question 3

‘Two doors from one corner’ + frequent repetition of ‘door’

Answer 3

Possible reference to duality?

Repetition of door:
- barrier motif
- makes the readers wonder what is behind the door
- secrecy

Question 4

‘The door, which was equipped with neither a bell nor a knocker, was blistered and distained’

Answer 4

Secrecy - the reader questions why the barrier is so unwelcoming…
- negative adverbs imply and absence of social intercourse (communication between people)
- sibilant adjectives hint at decay (perhaps the moral decay of the occupant)

Question 5

Enfield: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’ clock of a black winter morning”

Answer 5

Adjective - suspiciously vague?

Conjures an apocalyptic image as if he is trawling the very depths of sin and desire.

Perhaps coming back from an opium den or a brothel.
- Stevenson often made veiled hints at the hypocrisy of the Victorian Gentlemen

Question 6

Enfield: “when a man listens and listens”

Answer 6

Repetition creates tension.

Question 7

Enfield: “for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground”.

Answer 7

Oxymoron - sadistic nature of Hyde.
- the emphasis of his pure evil

‘camly’ - juxtaposes the verb ‘screaming’

Question 8

Enfield: “like some damned juggernaut”

Answer 8

Simile - Hyde’s strength is supernatural.

This would link to Hinduism meaning an ‘unstoppable force’
- links to the Hindu God ‘Jagganatha’
- he’s powerful like a god

Question 9

Enfield: “I had taken a loathing to my gentlemen at first sight”

Answer 9

Lombroso’s theory - hatred towards people with certain characteristics, claiming that they are criminals if they contain any form of abnormality.

Question 10

Enfield: “for they were as wild as harpies”

Answer 10

Greek mythology - the women were as wild as a mythological creature.
- suggests that the woman have a sense of hatred for Hyde

Question 11

Enfield: “like Satan”

Answer 11

Simile - reference to Religion.