Mr Hyde Analysis Flashcards
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“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath”
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Animalistic description of Hyde has connotations of a snake - may link to the biblical allusion of the story of Adam and Eve, and how the snake, representing the devil, convinced Eve to disobey God.
Could link to the theory of Degeneration as Hyde is more like an animal or devil than a human
2
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“Alone in the ranks of mankind, Edward Hyde was pure evil”
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The oxymoron “pure evil” suggests that Hyde is only the bad part of Dr Jekyll’s repression and doesn’t have any good in him.
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