Mr Edward Hyde Flashcards
(67 cards)
1
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what extracts are used to present hyde in the beginning of the novel?
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- ch.1 : the story of the door, hyde trampling over the girl
- ch.2 : search for hyde, utterson seeing hyde for the first time
2
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what extracts are used to present hyde in the middle of the novel?
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- ch.4 : the carew murder case, the maid watching the murder
- ch.7 : incident at the window, enfield and utterson witness jekyll transforming
3
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what extracts are used to present hyde at the end of the novel?
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- ch.8 : the last night, poole describing hyde posing as jekyll
- ch.9 : dr lanyon’s narrative, lanyon’s first view of hyde
4
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initially, hyde is presented… (ch.1+2)
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- as primitive
- inhumane
- through fear
- through the perspective of others
- as hideously repulsive
- as a symbol of temptation
- diabolical
- mystery
- criminal
- satanic
5
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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘stumping..
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…along’
6
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(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘trampled…
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…calmly’
7
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(ch.1) finish the quote: ‘brought out the sweat…
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…on me like running’
8
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(ch.1)finish the quote: ‘sick and white…
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…with the desire to kill’
9
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‘stumping along’
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- verb
- making a lot of noise and commotion
- not graceful/elegant - social outcast -> gentlemen
- primitive
- victorians felt threatened of divergent features and traits
10
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‘trampled calmly’
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- oxymoronic
- no compassion/remorse
- inhumane
11
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‘ugly…brought out the sweat on me like running’
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- simile
- hyde presented through fear -> like a gothic beast
12
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‘loathing’
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- noun
- hyde presented through other opinions of him/how he is percieved
13
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‘sick and white with the desire to kill’
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- strong hate
- hideously repulsive - referring to victorian fascination of physiognomy and Lombroso’s theory of atavism that looks reflected criminal tendencies
- referring to sawbones- amputations used to be done without anaesthesia - great time for medical sciences
14
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘picture of…
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…disquietude’
15
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘pale…
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..and dwarfish’
16
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘displeasing…
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..smile’
17
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘deformity without..
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…any nameable malformation’
18
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘murderous mixture…
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..of timidity and boldness’
19
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘hardly..
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…human’
20
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(ch.2) finish the quote: ‘satan’s…
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..signature upon a face’
21
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‘picture of disquietude’
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- shows reaction to mr hyde of unease and anxiety
22
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‘hissing’
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- snake
- presents hyde as a symbol of temptation
- representative of the pious society at the time
23
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‘pale and dwarfish’
‘displeasing smile’
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- semantic field of appearance
- ‘displeasing smile’ - oxymoronic - even a smile isn’t pure and happy - suggests that hyde is purely evil and diabolical
24
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‘deformity without any nameable malformation’
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- presents hyde as a mystery
25
'murderous mixture of timidity and boldness'
- presents Hyde as criminal
- 'timidity and boldness' - oxymoronic suggesting that hyde is quaint and abnormal
26
'hardly human'
'troglodytic'
- presented through uttersons' description
- inhumane
- monstrous
- resembling a cave man -> regression -> primitive
- lombroso's theory - criminals had primitive urges
27
'satan's signature upon a face'
- presents hyde as devilish and satanic
- victorian readers would be frightened and threatened as they lived in a pious society at the time
28
throughout the middle of the novel, hyde is presented... (ch.4+7)
- as unlikeable
- as untame
- as primitive
- as pre-historic
- as violent
- terrifying
- through enfield and utterson's shock and fear
- through unreliable narration
29
(ch.4)finish the quote: 'conceived...
..a dislike'
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(ch.4)finish the quote: 'great flame...
...of anger'
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(ch.4) finish the quote: 'like a...
`..madman'
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(ch.4)finish the quote: 'clubbed...
..to the earth'
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(ch.4)finish the quote: 'ape-like...
..fury'
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(ch.4)finish the quote: 'bones were...
..audibly shattered'
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'conceived a dislike'
- reaction to mr hyde
- unlikeable
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'great flame of anger'
- presents his volatile and volcanic rage
- unlike social norms of the time as victorian gentlemen were reserved and polite and had manners
- presents hyde as lacking self-control - untamed
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'ape-like fury'
- primitive
- darwin's theory of evolution -> 'the origin of species' -> published 1859 - ape vs angel debate -> huge controversy and rejected ideas of christianity -> a pious society
- regression
- violent - atavistic behaviour - criminals have primitive urges
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'clubbed him to the earth'
- prehistoric
- violent - atavistic behaviour - criminals have primitive urges
- cave-men -> darwin's theory of having ape ancestors
39
'bones were audibly shattered'
- takes a lot of strength
- presents hyde as violent and strong
- victorian reader -> fearful
40
(ch.7) finish the quote: 'abject...
..terror and despair'
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(ch.7) finish the quote: 'froze the...
..very blood'
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(ch.7) finish the quote: 'god...
...forgive us'
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'abject terror and despair'
- adjective
- semantic field of negativity and fear
- presents hyde as terrifying and through fear
44
'froze the very blood'
- presents hyde through enfield and utterson's shock and fear
- metaphor
45
'horror' 'pale'
- presents hyde through fear
- colour drained from faces -> shocking
- enfield and utterson petrified and scarred
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'God forgive us'
- religious - live in a pious society- christians
- haven't seen something so immoral - shocking
47
how does chapter seven present hyde?
- through unreliable narration
- reader can deduce that jekyll is in his liminal state -> Hyde
- shows the dichotomy and duality of man
- emphasises the idea of the evil in us all -> original sin
48
finally, hyde is presented... (ch.8 + 9)
- as simian
- as primitive
- abnormal
- deformed
- repulsive
- eerie
- disturbing
- grotesque
- through dr lanyon's pov
- silly
- out of control
- through fear
- beastly
- purely evil
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(ch.8) finish the quote: 'like...
..a monkey'
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(ch.8) finish the quote: 'spine...
...like ice'
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(ch.8) finish the quote: 'sorely...
..contorted'
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'like a monkey'
- hyde is presented as simian
- simile
- suggests regression
- darwin's 'origin of species' published 1859 - against victorian morals
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'jumped'
- verb
- primitive
- bestial/animalistic imagery
- inhumane
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'spine like ice'
- simile
-chilling, eerie, gothic trope
- written at the time of interest in the gothic - Shelley's 'Franskenstein'
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'sorely contorted'
- adjective
- presents hyde as:
- abnormal
- deformed
- repulsive
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'twitching'
- verb
- presents hyde as disturbing and deformed
- reference to victorians' fascination in physiognomy
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(ch.9) finish the quote: 'ordinary person..
...laughable'
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(ch.9) finish the quote: 'on fire with...
...sombre excitement'
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(ch.9) finish the quote: 'dreadful...
..smile'
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'disgustful' 'revolting'
- presents hyde as grotesque and sickening
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'ordinary person laughable'
- dr lanyon's pov
- reference to victorian society
- gentlemen were well-dressed
- looks like a joke/outcast/out of place
- presents hyde as an outcast
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'haunches'
- presents hyde as bestial and animalistic
- primitive
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'ludicrous'
- presents hyde as silly and crazy
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'abnormal'
- presents hyde as deformed
- refers to the fascination of physiognomy in victorian society
- lombroso believed in atavism - physical deformities could reflect criminal tendencies and primitive urges -> would terrify and threaten a victorian reader
65
'on fire with sombre excitement'
'hysteria'
- metaphor suggesting he is untamed and out of control and cannot contain himself
- victorian readers would look down upon this and be shocked as they were fearful of divergent traits and features -> threatening to society
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'ghastly'
- presents hyde through fear
- presents him as beastly -> perhaps stevenson wanted to create a gothic beast like shelley's frankenstein
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'dreadful smile'
- oxymoronic
- smiles are meant to bring happiness
- suggests that there is no good in mr hyde - reflects the alter ego in us all -> the potential to do bad
- original sin
- presents hyde as purely evil and diabolical
