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