dr jekyll and hyde

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    • full of premature twilight
      Pathetic fallacy, incident at the window chap 7 about the setting.
    • such abject terror and despairas froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below
      chap 7 about fear
    • "like some damned Juggernaut"

      Hyde is compared to a large lorry suggesting his strength and brutality. Reference to hell in the sentence again.
    • "dusty windows barred with iron"
      The house has no windows. Links in with Jekyll being a "disconsolate prisoner." Chapter 5 about setting
    • If you be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek!
      lexical field os secrecy humor contrasts the serious tone of the book in chap2
    • something displeasing something downright detestable

      Plosives t and d suggests his harshness and repetition of something suggests he is indescribable euphemism links to mystery and tension and fear
    • "Such unscientific balderdash"

      -shows his disgust to Jekyll's radical ways shows his rationality links to fear of science
    • "low growl of London"

      Personification is used to present Victorian London as a filthy polluted area full of crime, as it was in the Victorian era. This further gives a sinister, dark atmosphere towards the setting of the novel to foreshadow dark events anthromophism sinister setting
    • "God forgive us! God forgive us!"
      Jekyll's transformation is unnatural. Utterson asks God for forgiveness as in Victorian society, only God has the power to create things.
    • theatrical to the eye

      l is the opposite to jekyll friendly and open displays emotion
    • the fog in chap 4 is described as 'lurid brown like the lighht of some strange conflageration' conflageration is battle language andmeans a large violent event like a war