Analysis

• “Of building thrust forward”


  It suggests that we can’t suppress our vices, as it is where Hyde was seen
• “Something displeasing, something downright detestable”

  Repetition of “something” suggests that Hyde is a monster than a being

  Harsh “d” suggests” force of evil
• “DLC, LLD, FRS &c…”


  Suggests Dr Jekyll is very smart and lots of qualities of a respectable victorean gentleman
• “Tolling in mere darkness…”


  This suggests the unknown and ignorance
• “Such unscientific balderdash” 


  Suggests Lanyon’s opinion, Jekyll science is not valid/ legit
• Stevonson purposely leaves out information throughout leavings unanswered question to add to story emphasising the mystery (Gothic Genre) making us lower out guard and makes us believe there is no danger
• “Although a fog rolled over the city in small hours, the early parts of the night were cloudless”

  Before murder is clear, fog envelopes the city to hide the terrible deed about to be done, intentionally there
• “the moon shone on his face as he spoke”

  Good vs Evil

  Good is the Light and evil is shrouded in darkness

  Light suggests purity and innocence
• ”Broke out in a great flame of anger”

  Metaphor suggests the danger of suppressing any danger side

  Fire suggests uncontrollable suggesting how it will be dangerous
• “Ape like fury”


  Brings fear in Victorian audience as it related to Darwin and suggest devolution back to monkeys
• “Broke out of bounds”

  Suggests how he broke free from good and purity (Plosive alliteration)
• “Eyes lit with professional ambition”

  Suggests duality in everybody as sees this as a chance to do better in work rather than sad of death
• “First fog of the season”

  Sense of mystery and confusion

  Gothic genre suggests deeds done under covers of darkness and fog
• “Haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between swirling wreaths”

  Suggests light is struggling to escape the many evil fog (too many)
• “Fog lifted a little”

  Is constantly changing, difficult to see clearly even when it seems clear
• “I was thinking of my own character”

  Focused on reputation rather than keeping moral values
• “The fog still slept on wing above the drowned city”


  Personification, fog isn’t going to move, completely submerged
• “And to disperse the fogs in London”


  Significant as the fog left as the Jekyll was left, we are about to find out they have the same hand
• “Death or disappearance“


  similar to Jekyll will, truth is terrifying that it is sealed twice

  Truth is so terrifying that it led to Lanyon’s death

  Utterson unwilling to expose him
• “And the packet slept in the inmost corner of his personal safe”

  Personification, secret is sleeping but will be uncovered soon and in the corner as far away as possible
• “God forgive us” “God forgive us”


  Recognised that we are like Jekyll and need to be forgiven, relating to religion
• “window was instantly thrust down”

  Suggests that he is trying to protect himself, shutting himself from the truth
• “Walked once more in silence”


  Secrecy as they dont want to talk about it
• “Doggedly disregarding the question”

  Alliteration, show not telling, too afraid to answer
• “flecked the blood into the face… unusually bare of passengers… parts if London so deserted… lashing themselves along the railway”

  Pathetic Fallacy, Gothic Genre (Gory, Eerie, Ominous) and violent imagery
• “Why it stays here”

  It suggests Hyde is not human
• “Why had he a mask”


  Trying to hide himself, hide the face of Hyde hiding all his secrets

  Mask symbolises a mask for Jekyll’s secret life (Double Life)
• ”Will Hyde die upon the scaffold?”


  Separating Hyde from himself, alienating him thinking about judgement and God
• “Or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment?”

  Jekyll doesn’t known he is going to die
• ”here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life to unhappy Jekyll to an end.”

  Wants to die as Jekyll, the good part of him and at the end, nobody knew the full truth
• “It but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”

  Can’t help it, that’s just what happens
• “If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relived of all that was unbearable”

  If he is able to find a way to escape of Hyde, he would not have to repress himself
• “More upright twin”


  One moral good and the other like Hyde
• “A side light”


  Only a side of light, not a full bright light
• “Severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature”

  He lost his sense of morals
• “I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two”


  You cannot repress your inner desire, they will just be magnified when they are uncovered

  Alliteration of “d” links the two, his plight and misery is inevitable

  Metaphor but not his fault, mankind being destroyed
• “The scud has banked over the moon”

  The moon shining light, is being covered up meaning something is about to go down,
• “Down with the door, poole!”

  Poole willing to take it down as Utterson is more used to keeping secrets

  Secret about to be revealed
• “A dismal screech, ad of mere animal terror… four times the blow fell”

  Animal imagery, Darwin

  The truth is tough and hard to get to
• “The most commonplace that night in London”


  So ordinary because it could be anybody’s room