The description of Jekylls house

• Description of Jekylls house=

  A metaphor of Jekyll
• “Wore a great air of wealth and comfort, tho it was now plunged in darkness”

  • Use of personification-Stevenson is saying all respectful houses in London are owned by people like Jekyll-They appear to be good, but something sinister and dark is going on inside
  • Use of a metaphor. Darkness=A symbol of evil
• “For even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly;and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr.Jekyll, looking deadly sick”

  • Jekylls house as a hidden identity
  • As Jekyll becomes more evil, through his creation of Hyde, a fog comes in the house
  • Fog=A metaphor for how we confuse what looks respectable, to what really is evil and sinister
• “A certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street”

  • The back of Jekylls house=Where Hyde enters and lives-It has a completely different look to Jekylls
  • ”thrust” use of this verb makes the house sound violent
• “A blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper;and bore in every feature, the marks prolonged and sordid negligence“

  • Use of personification
  • Quote=If you don’t take care of your evil instincts, they will take over and your negligence will make you appear to be evil