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• Mr Utterson was...inclined to help rather than to reprove: 'Said by/about: About Mr Utterson, Chapter 1: Story of the Door, Page 2'
• Mr Utterson


  • Inclined to help rather than reprove, Victorian Gentleman, Duality of Man
• "to reprove" means to tell off. He is seen as generous and kind. Non-judgemental.: 'Technique/Method: Oppositional Verbs – to incline is a verb that means to lean towards'
• "a certain sinister block of building....a blind forehead of discoloured wall...the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence...": 'Said by: Narrator about the Soho house, Chapter 1: The Story of the Door, Page 3-4'
• Soho house


  • Personification, Setting, Secrecy, repression, duality of man, the gentleman
• "the man trampled calmly over the child's body...it was hellish to see..... It was like some damned juggernaut": 'Said by: Enfield to Mr Utterson, Chapter 1: The Story of the Door, Page 4-5'
• Trampling of child


  • Juxtaposition, contrast, adverb, simile, Evil, Duality of Man
• "He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity": 'Said by: Enfield to Utterson, Chapter 1: The Story of the Door, Page 8'
• Hyde


  • Repetition, Metaphor, Duality of Man
• "Hyde..began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes...there leaped up the sudden, definite presence of a fiend": 'Said by: Narrator (Utterson's perspective), Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde, Page 10'
• Hyde


  • Personification, Verb, Evil
• "The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.": 'Said by: Narrator about Hyde, Chapter 2: The Search for Mr Hyde, Page 14-15'
• Hyde


  • Sibilance, oxymoron, Duality of man
• "Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish": 'Said by: Utterson in a letter to Jekyll, Chapter 2: The Search for Mr Hyde, Page 15'
• "The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic…": 'Said by: Utterson in a letter to Jekyll, Chapter 2: The Search for Mr Hyde, Page 15'
• Hyde


  • Dwarfish, Troglodytic, Duality of man
• "the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace.": 'Said by: Utterson about Jekyll, Chapter 2: The Search for Mr Hyde, Page 17'
• Jekyll


  • Metaphor, Medicine and Science, Evil
• "this is a private matter": 'Said by: Jekyll to Utterson, Chapter 3: Dr J was quite at ease, Page 19'
• Jekyll


  • Adjective, metaphor, Secrecy, Duality
• "all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger": 'Said by: Narrator about Hyde, Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case, Page 22'
• Hyde


  • Metaphor, Good vs evil
• "ape-like fury": 'Said by: Narrator, Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case, Page 22'
• Hyde


  • Simile, Duality of Man
• "I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again...I am done with him in this world...": 'Said by: Jekyll, Chapter 5: Incident of the letter, Page 28'
• Jekyll


  • Biblical Allusion, Science vs Religion
• "he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal": 'Said by: Narrator about Utterson, Chapter 5: Incident of the Letter, Page 29-30'
• Utterson


  • Metaphor, Male honour and reputation of the Victorian Gentleman
• "he was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and brighten": 'Said by: Narrator about Jekyll, Chapter 6: Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon, Page 32'
• Jekyll


  • Abstract nouns, Repetition, Duality of Man
• "He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face": 'Said by: Narrator about Dr Lanyon, Chapter 6: Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon'
• Jekyll: '"you must suffer me to go my own dark way...If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"'
• Jekyll says Hyde will never be back


  Jekyll is trapped and out of control
• Narrator about Jekyll: '"he was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and brighten"'
• Chapter 6


  • Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon
• Chapter 6


  Links to the Victorian Gentleman repressing the darker side of himself
• Narrator about Dr Lanyon: '"He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face"'
• Chapter 6


  A death warrant is an official document ordering an execution – reminds us of the sins committed and the justice that must come
• Jekyll in a letter to Utterson: '"You must suffer me to go my own dark way...If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"'
• Chapter 6


  The conflict between religion and science after the publication of Darwin's Theory of Evolution is represented through the two characters