Violence Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
Q
Violence is shown through…
A
- Hyde’s barbaric acts
- The description of the setting reflects how out of place Hyde is in society
- Violence as a symbol of moral decay
2
Q
‘The man trampled calmly over the child’s body’
A
- Juxtaposition
- establishes the brutality of Hyde
- adverb ‘calmly’ suggests a disregard for human life
- Horrifying image
3
Q
‘Ape-like fury he was trampling his victim’
A
- Charles Darwin theory of evolution
- Hyde is the less evolved side to Jekyll
- compares Hyde to animal
- unrestrained nature
4
Q
‘broke out in a great flame of anger’
A
- metaphor
- ‘fire’ = intense and hellish
- espolisive nature
- repressed emotions are freed in the form of violemce
5
Q
‘A certain sinister block of building’
A
- out of place in society like hyde
- reflects how hyde embodies in a darken hidden side
- sense of isolation and solidarity
6
Q
‘My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’
A
- Jekyll represses his darker urges
- Hyde is violent and threatening
- ‘roaring’ - uncontrallable and animilastic power
- ‘devil’ is sinful
7
Q
Hyde’s victims
A
young girl = innocent
old man = respect
vulnerable and helpless victims
instensifies readers sympathy
8
Q
Stevensons intentions through the theme of violence
A
- exposes primal instincts
- highlights the consequences of represion and the pressures of Victorian Society
- warning about duality
- denial of darker self leads to uncontrollable outbreaks of violence
