Jekyll and Hyde

• 'lean, long, dusty, dreary; and yet somehow lovable' - Utterson
• 'the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest'
• 'the door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained'
• 'It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut'
• 'I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him'
• 'a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman' - Dr Lanyon
• 'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'I shall be Mr Seek.' - Utterson
• 'Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath'
• 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde' - Jekyll
• 'I concealed my pleasures'
• 'man's dual nature'
• 'man is not truly one, but truly two'
• 'It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty'
• 'The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll'
• Stephenson crafts the hyperbolic characters of Jekyll and Hyde to show that duality is irrepressible. Jekyll is encouraged by society to repress this dual side which results in Hydes barbaric, heinous character surfacing. Therefore, Stephenson is critical of the Victorian custom of repression and aims to show through his novel that trying to eradicate all evil will not end well.
• pale and dwarfish, he gave a strong air of deformity


  Victorian ideas of physiognomy meaning someone’s appearance is indicative of their internal nature. Deformity is the mark of evil- Hyde is inextricably linked to evil
• A large well made smooth man of fifty


  physiognomy and Victorian suppression and public facade
• Agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling


  repression of man’s dual nature, that we are inherently born with
• Hyde trampled calmly over the girl and left her screaming in the street


  trampled calmly=oxymoron, introduces the theme of duality, trampled connotes violence- highlights Hyde’s barbarity and beastly nature(zoomorphic), calmly creates an eeery atmosphere- hydes amoral nature, passive disregard for human life
• Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth


  Disregard of class is symbolic of proletarian revolution, passive disregard for human life, contrasts with Danvers "Old world kindness"
• All of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger


  Volatility shown through metaphor of flame, natural, lexis from the semantic field of violence, ordered, complex sentence contrasts with Hyde
• snarled aloud into a savage laugh


  animalistic/zoomorphic
• a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable onto the street...prolonged and sordid negligence


  personification, plosive alliteration, Hyde's isolation
• troglodytic


  human, common ancestor, recluse
• froze the very blood (of utterson and enfield)


  Bringer of death, potent fear, metaphor
• 'A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven'


  pall is a funeral cloth, death, gothic, pathetic fallacy/symbolic of hyde
• the more it looks like queer street, the less i ask (enfield)


  silence and repression, colloquialism meaning sentiment is intrinsic and has entered his idiolect
• make his name stink


  olfactory imagery
• you start a question and it's like starting a stone... away the stone goes starting others 


  climate of secrecy, cascading effect
• he had his death-warrant written legibly on his face


  danger of the truth
• such unscientific balderdash would have estranged damon and phythias


  science, devolution, greek mythology
• something displeasing


  stevenson uses restrained, formal language when describing violence to follow indecency laws, this creates irony
• drank gin...to mortify his taste for vintages, enjoyed the theatre though he had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years


  repression, fear of addiction
• religious symbolism was universally undersood as a metaphor for good and evil
• I incline to Cain's heresy


  connotes violence as cain was the first murderer, theology, utterson has his own regrets
• duality of mans nature= the hard law of life


  law contrasts with life, society vs god, a contemporary reader may argue that Jekyll has been punished by God
• he came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends


  friendship between bachelors
• epistolary form means multiple narrators showing different perspectives
• about three o'clock in the morning (enfield returns)


  possible homosexuality, duplicity
• besieged by questions


  connotations of war show utterson's restraint