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1
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What does like a Juggernaut show

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Adjective contrast with damned emphasising the power of Hyde’s evil to Enfield
Christian illusion of damned- ironic as Hyde little
Steven being ironic as he’s over exaggerating the trampling all he’s done is step over a girl
Its reaction that’s evil

2
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Little man

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Not recognised unmasked
Stevenson sides with Hyde as he doesn’t repress his feeling and actually because he doesn’t everyone doesn’t really know what to make of him
Expected to make alter ego

3
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I am naturally helpless name your figure

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Speaks honest Victorian gentlemen
Being taken advantage of
Stevenson showing how this repressed side isn’t even a bad side it’s just coming away from being so strict with ur selves but the way hide reacts is everyone’s reaction to this deviation

4
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Stevenson’s idea on appearances

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The idea you can tell by looking at someone is ridiculous doesn’t believe in division
We are a mixture like JEKYLL

Quite large handsome face of Dr Jekyll
Presented as an attractive man as stevajkn says you can’t look at peoples look as hiv e got to look at their personality

5
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Great air of wealth and discomfort though it was now plunged in darkness’s

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Personification

All respectable properties see in London contain people like Jekyll who appear to be good but else is going on inside

6
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Fog began to lie thickly

Dr Jekyll looking deadly sick

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As Jekyll becomes more evil dog comes into the house and we confuse what looks respectable to what is sin ful
Fog metaphor of Hyde doors and windows - secrets

7
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Leicester Square is next door to soho so Hyde is next door to Jekyll = two sides of the same place

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Good and evil side by side Stevenson would expect his readers to instantly realise what he was up to

8
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Utterson visists soho after Hyde kills Danvers

What does first fog of the season
And a great chocolate coloured pahl lowered over heaven suggest

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Great chocolate could suggest pleasures of senses
Put this directly juxtaposes pahl as it’s a coffin lid = death
Fog is obscuring heaven suggesting god is dead
Suggesting Hyde’s pleasures are cashing death and the fog is suggesting how Jekyll wants to keep this hidden

9
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Hyde’s part of Jekyll house

Blind forehead of disscoiloture wall on the upper

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Personification of blínd suggesting the blíndess of society and the way their rejecting evil within it as Stevenson says we all Have a dual nature
ENFIELD was out at 3am????

10
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Hyde house is furnished with luxury and good taste

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Everyone thinks soho is sinfulness as associates with crime and prostitution
EVEN if Hyde has a lot of redeeming educated qualities society critisce all of them so what Stevenson is saying is Victorian society at the time was evil and he in fact rejected this society and moved away after writing this book

11
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Jekyll turned into Hyde without the drugs

Animal within in me licking the chops or memory

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To Jekyll Hyde not evil as he’s acting on natural instinct as a animal

12
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Man is not truly one but truly two

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Stevenson asking for a more mature understanding rather than condemning people like Hyde who just do things they shouldn’t

We all have a dual nature

13
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Polar twins suggest

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We can’t get rid of the evil within us and oerohaps we shouldn’t try to and accept it
Polar means half of good and evil
Twins suggest same person

14
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What does braced and delighted me like wine suggest

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Natural pleasure

Christians are alcoholics and sinful

15
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What does Queer Street suggest by Enfield

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Eveuone suspects that Hyde is in a homo relationships as why else would Jekyll blackmailed

16
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Uttersom dream about Jekyll in bed

Curtains of the bed plucked apart

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Sexually charged dream utterson has to repress and keep his desires

17
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Why does it matter that all the characters are unmarried

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Brcuause theyre homo but can’t endulce in it

Tragedy of novel - we don’t accept people for who they are and demonise them

18
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Who is oscar Wilde

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Jailed as exposed for being gay 5 years after this book

19
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Blackmail …. capers of the youth’

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He believes all young men have given into sexual desires

Utterson wouldn’t her these desires as they were only appropriate in youth then they grow respectable

20
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Description of Hyde
Slime of the pit
Should upsurp the offices of live
Language is like who would use ???

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Pit means - hell
So Hyde evil exaggerated as he doesn’t really believe in hell and doesn’t make sense to him

Upsurp- to overcome
Jekyll has been overcome by Hyde
Deliberately uses complex language to poke fun at complex religion which decided there is a heaven and a hell not just life

21
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Does Stevenson believe in religion

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No doesn’t believe in god so give a Christian background as that’s what the readers wanted
But makes fun of their believe as he thinks
Christianity is an over exaggeration it’s not what life is really like

22
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Maid

When she narrated that experience never had she felt more at peace with mean

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Maid loved telling the story of Danvers crew murder
= undermines her and suggests not horrified by the brutal murderbut she’s delighted by it
Making fun of women
Accuse women of being bloodthirsty and violent and over exaggerate the murder
Mostly women readers

23
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What does the body jumped upon tbe roadway at the same time as Hyde tramping the body

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Stevenson is mocking this addiction to violence he feels women readers have

24
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Women of different nationalists passing out key in hand to have a morning glass
What does utterson mean

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Drinking gin in the morning

Characterising all women as alcoholics and suggests women in soho are like this

25
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Hyde’s housekeeper description

Evil face but her manners were excellent

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Stevenson saying women just like men have good manners in surface but underneath they’re all evil
Emphasise women evil as when we can see women evil but not Jekyll

26
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One reason why tragedy happens is Jekyll has to operate with no friends

We’re inseparable friends
What if this should cost me another

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Break down in friendship is caused by society’s values

Friendship couldn’t saved Jekyll

27
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Quotes about drug taking

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Fortress of identity - effect of drugs sakes you about - idea that u build up to be a good character is a myth eg utterson
I knew well that I risked death - Steve warning about overdose
Drug is wanted bitter bad

28
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What did Hyde do on Jekyll religious book

Ape like tricks
Blasphemies

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We could evolve back into as their genetics maybe be allow us to survive

B
Against god and Christianity been invented
Stevenson saying st end of the book Christianity is just a story and that’s why Hyde attacks the religious book

29
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Good vs evil

What does I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it

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Our original sin was cutting forbidden fruit so know we carry it with us
We all try to choose good but we lack in strength so choose evil