jekyll and hyde

• j 'voluntary bondage'


  regression,

  addiction,

  slavery,

  oxymoron, own misfortune
• u 'if he be mr hyde' 'i shall be mr seek'


  antithesis,

  duality,

  nominative, determinism,

  double entrendre,

  pun on utterson, curiousity,

  retards narrative
• h 'ape-like fury'


  theory of evolution,

  regression,

  troglodyte,

  horror,

  simile,

  darwinism,

  hyde is ape like
• j 'if i am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of suffers also'


  antithesis,

  juxtaposition,

  duality, owner of own misfortune

  gothic feature, scientific overreach
• j 'like some disconsolate prisoner'


  drugs,

  prisoner simile to himself
• p 'have i been twenty years in this man's house, to be deceived about his voice'


  do we know anyone,

  doesn't know secret hyde
• p/j 'why had he a mask upon his face'


  metaphor,

  everyone hiding themselves behind a mask
• p 'do you think i do not know my master after twenty years'


  rhetorical question but not really,

  does anyone know anyone
• j 'i saw what i saw' 'i heard what i heard'


  tautology,

  emphasis certanty
• j 'perennial war among my members'


  metaphor,

  war between jekyll and hyde never went
• j/h 'the powers of hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of jekyll'


  antithesis,

  addiction makes addict weaker
• j 'that night i had come to fatal crossroads'


  drug and indulge in hyde or stay as jekyll
• j 'that man is not truly one but truly two'


  revelation,

  duality
• h 'the letter was written in an odd upright hand'


  reputation, 'odd' contrast victorian etiquette, foreshadows epistolary
• h 'i have seen devilish little of the man'


  religion, hyperbolic euphemism, irony, hints at parrel reference to hyde being short and evil
• reputation

  secrets to uphold victorian gentleman, utterson fears jekyll is getting blackmailed by hyde, colour imagery shows secrecy 'jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness around his eyes, secrect retard narrative and manipulate readers perspective
• gothic and supernatural

  troglodytic, hyde is human yet supernatural, 'trampled calmly' animalistic and detached from actions, pathetic fallacy, 'a fog rolled over' tense atmosphere
• science and religion

  'i incline to cains heresey' 'satans signature' biblical allusions, lanyons traditional science view juxtapose jekyll supernatural 'unscientific balderdahsh', science causes damage and is unsettling
• duality

  confilct between body and soul, 'man is not truly one but truly two' civilised and uncivilised, half of us is pleasure and half is moral, freudian id ego and sugerego, war between jekyll an d hyde, hyde is nocturnal, utterson and enfield, soho and canvendish square
• good and evil

  jekyll is both good and evil whereas hyde is fully evil, hydes evil is contrasted with good such as 'innocent' and intensifes actions, jekyll describes hyde as 'alone in the rank of man kind was pure evil', jekyll is charitable
• appearance vs reality

  semantic field of doors and windows, hyde is 'deformed', lanyon deterioration looks like its form illness but from shock, secrecy leave reader suspicious, both reader and character are deceived appearance, jekyll is seemed to be respectable man but hides under dark identity
• gothic context

  supernatural, hyde is nocturnal, secrecy of hyde, recurring motif of doors, gothic setting 'fog', epistolary, industrial revelation
• science and religion context

  darwins theory of evolution, john hunter is inspiration for jekyll, playing god, mainly Christian views
• victorian society

  double lives, no women as worked in factories or at home, lawyers and doctors, mainly bachelor, 'intelligent reputable men', jekyll conforms to stereotypes where hyde juxtaposes, men's homosexual illegal
• j 'if i am the chief of sinners i am the chief of suffers also'


  antithesis, juxtaposition, sibilance, duality, own misfortune
• j change


  well respected at start, however mixed at the end
• j based on

  john hunter
• j 'tables laden with chemical apparatus'


  imagery, science
• j freud

  ego, instinct and moral
• j 'that man is not truly one but truly two'


  epistolary, revelation, duality, synantic parallel, ultimately destroyed
• j is both

  evil and respectable
• j 'perennial war among my members'


  metaphor, jekyll war with hyde never went away
• j 'that night i had come to fatal crossroads'


  drug and indulge in hyde or stay as jekyll
• j 'i can be rid of mr hyde'


  believes hes still in control, addiction isnt fully complete, doesnt want to be imprisioned
• j first met in

  chapter 3
• e more like

  hyde and out going
• e victorian gentlemen

  only gossip to utterson to maintain reputation
• e first met in

  chapter 1 with utterson
• e 'from some place at the end of the world'


  3am devils hour, seen hyde?, reader speculate
• e 'make his name stink from one end of london to the other


  repuatation, metaphor