Jekyll and Hyde

• "my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring" C10

  verb 'caged': animalistic allusions linking with darwinism. this critiques the suppression of these primal and hedonistic urges by societal norms and religious dogma(principles)
• "my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring" C10

  zoomorphism: the zoomorphic description of jekyll's degenerate desires shows societal constraints compel him to suppress these desires, leading to the emergence of a beastly animalistic force, personified though Hyde. His transmogrification (change in a surprising way) into the 'devil' of Hyde was because he was forced to resort to secrecy- this in itself is an oxymoron as dishonesty is incompatible with the blueprint of a respectable gentleman.
• "agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling" C10

  painful verb 'agonised': jekyll made an egregious (shocking) mistake in attempting to separate the two aspects of his nature- the perpetual pain between the dichotomy (division) of moral duty and personal pleasure- painfully mistook how he could suppress his desires.
• "agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling" C10


  'womb' the place of creation, illustrates the inherent duality of human nature. Stevenson satirises (mocks) the Victorians wanting to sterilise(free from) this inherent human flaw showing it as inherent to each individual from the moment of creation.
• "agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling" C10


  metaphor: two aspects of human nature are never finished developing (duality) hey are perpetually in an embryonic state and thus engaging in a power struggle as they both try to grow within the same guild.