jekyll and hyde

• "trampled calmly"
• d quotes:

  • "damned juggernaut"
  • "downright detestable"
  • "deformed"
  • "pale and dwarfish"
• zoomorphism:

  • "ape-like fury"
  • "like a rat"
  • "like a monkey"
  • "animal terror"
  • "animal within me licking the chops of memory"
• science vs religion:

  • "unscientific balderdash"
  • "really like satan"
  • "satan's signature"
  • "lost soul"
  • "my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring"
  • "child of hell"
• • "duality of man"
  • "man is not truly one, but truly two"
  • "polar twins"
  • "double existence"
• descriptions of hyde:

  • "it wasn't like a man"
  • "the man seems hardly human!"
  • "particularly wicked looking"
  • "revolting"
• addiction:

  • "the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde"
  • "terror of the mind"
  • "this drug is wanted bitter bad"
  • "I concealed my pleasures"
• animal semantic field:

  • "hissing"
  • "snarled"
  • "savage"
• "great flame of anger"
• "like a madman"
• "if I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"
• "froze the very blood"
• hydes inhumanity semantic field:

  • "it"
  • "that thing"
  • "creature"
• "reeled, staggered, clutched at the table"
• victorian expectations:

  • "prisonhouse"
  • "slavery"
  • "confined"
  • "restrictions"
• examples of gothic themes:

  • "fog"
  • "the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest"
  • "black winter morning"
  • "low growl of london"
  • "some city in a nightmare"
• jekyll and hyde was written in 1886 in the victorian era
• the most important thing for a Victorian upper class citizen was reputation
• in the victorian era the rich and poor divide was not to be crossed
• 1859 - On the Origin of The Species, Charles Darwin


  Details Darwin's theory of evolution, completely contracticting the religiousity of society at the time
• 1876 - Lombroso's theory of Atavism


  the idea that criminals are a regressed, animalistic form of human
• some believe that Hyde is an allegory for Jekyll's addiction: the upper class often had hidden cocaine addictions whereas the lower class with addictions were obviously addicted to the newer drug heroine
• sodomy - illegalised in 1860

  Blackmailer's Charter - 1885