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Flashcards by Isabel Knight, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Isabel Knight
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| Question | Answer |
| '...the fog began to lie thickly.' | Pathetic fallacy-symbolises the mystery of Jekyll (obscures vision) -lack of understanding of Jekyll's situation -personification of nature-human/animalistic |
| 'The floor strewn with crates and littered with packing cases...' | Careless manner-representation of Hyde 'Packing' symbolises repression of Jekyll Losing control-mess in his life on the inside (hidden) |
| '...a door covered in red baize.' | 'Red' symbolises danger in what Jekyll is doing-dark side 'Baize'-attractive-covers up darkness underneath 'Door' can't escape the danger 'Red'-Moses-red on the door to prevent the plague-protects image of Jekyll 'Red'-love/hate-Jekyll/Hyde |
| 'The dingy windowless structure' | -you can't look in-symbolises mystery behind Jekyll's work -no light-complete darkness -Jekyll trapped in his situation |
| 'An imprint of deformity and decay' | -foreshadows death |
| "The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest." (4.10) | GOOD vs EVIL -Although Mr. Utterson is an honest man, as in, a good man, the law still terrifies him and makes him think about past misdeeds |
| "An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy: but her manners were excellent." (4.12) | GOOD vs EVIL -Even Mr. Hyde’s housekeeper is portrayed as evil- 'HYPOCRISY' theme |
| "Think before you answer, for it shall be done as you decide. As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul. Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan." (9.28) | GOOD vs EVIL -Dr. Lanyon can either take comfort in this kind act, or choose to come face-to-face with evil. |
| "Both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering." (10.1) | Good and evil exist in equal parts in Dr. Jekyll. |
| "I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine." (10.4) | GOOD vs EVIL -Dr. Jekyll describes in very positive terms how it feels to be free "of the bonds of obligation." This is why Mr. Hyde is able to take over his body and mind. |
| "I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend. The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth." (10.8) | GOOD vs EVIL -The "captives at Philippi" is probably both a classical and a Shakespearean (literary) allusion since, at the end of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and after the battles at that Macedonian city in 42 B. C., the captives (former supporters of the conspirators Cassius and Brutus) were released by the magnanimous victors, Antony and Octavius, given liberty instead of death as traitors. Hyde is unexpectedly (and undeservedly) liberated from his prison to cause further havoc. Dr. Jekyll produces an evil version of himself—is this success or failure at separating good from evil? |
| "He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove." (1.1) | REPRESSION -Although Mr. Utterson leads a very severe, routine life, he is envious of others’ transgressions. |
| "Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed. "Here is another lesson to say nothing," said he. "I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again." "With all my heart," said the lawyer. I shake hands on that, Richard." (1.27) | REPRESSION -In keeping with their social code, Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield agree essentially not to gossip anymore. |
| "At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde."(10.8) | For Jekyll, repressing his evil side simply renders it more ambitious and alert. |
| "For two good reasons, I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession. First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure." (10.2) | Dr. Jekyll believes that repression yields consequences worse than Hyde’s actions. |
| " My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring." (10.17) | Repressing Mr. Hyde merely makes him stronger and angrier when he is finally released. Devils and animals are clearly distinct from humans, so these images stress how inhuman Hyde is. But animals are part of nature, so at the same time the images acknowledge that the passions Hyde acts on are a natural, if lower, part of us. |
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