Jekyll/Repression

• Huge pressure to conform to society’s expectations
• Desires and habits that didn’t fit the expectations had to be hidden/repressed
• Highlight consequences of repression
• ‘I concealed my pleasures’

  • He hid his true self because of strict Victorian social codes
  • ‘pleasures’ = other persona (Hyde), he recognises that he is wrong
  • ’concealed’ = hid
• ‘Like some disconsolate prisoner‘

  • Simile = Jekyll is not only imprisoned in his laboratory but also in his and Hydes body
  • ‘disconsolate’ = hopelessly unhappy - effect of living out his evil side
  • ‘some’ = false sense of security - trying o distance himself from Hyde
• ‘Hailing down a storm of blows …. the bones audibly shattered’

  • Jekyll turns into Hyde - repression leads to Hydes built up violence exploding in a terrible way
  • sensory language = emphasise astonishing brutality of the attack
• ‘My devil had been long caged and he came out roaring’

  • Metaphor = Hyde has been repressed for so long that his anger is exploding worse than ever before
  • ’ cage’ = symbolises Jekylls body and how he has attempted to imprison his evil however he can no longer contain it anymore