Jekyll and Hyde Chapter 4

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Year 11 English (Jekyll and Hyde ) Mind Map on Jekyll and Hyde Chapter 4, created by Niamh Webster on 31/03/2018.
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Jekyll and Hyde Chapter 4
  1. Hyde murders Danvers Carew
    1. Chapter begins nearly a year later
      1. Maid's account of Carew's murder is written like a police statement
        1. Distances the reader from the event itself
          1. Also limited to the maid's perspective - she's "romantically given" so it's hard to know how much we can believe
            1. The maid's description is a shocking change of tone in her initially peaceful account
              1. She faints - shows how shocking the murder was
          2. Old man appears polite and full of "old-world kindness"
            1. Emphasises his innocence and shows how evil Hyde is - attacks Carew for no reason
            2. Hyde is described as trampling Carew with "ape-like fury"
              1. Animalistic description shows how he's primal and savage
              2. A lot of gruesome detail is given
                1. Hyde "clubbed" Carew, "trampling" him and giving him a "storm of blows" so that his body "jumped upon the roadway"
                  1. Stevenson appeals to the reader's sense of hearing and sight by describing how Carew's bones were "audibly" shattered
                    1. Makes the attack more horrific and vivid as you imagine how terrible it would be to hear someone's bones breaking
                  2. Hyde leaves Carew "incredibly mangled" on the street - it's a brutal and shocking crime
                  3. Utterson and the police search for Hyde
                    1. Policeman's reaction to the indentification of Carew as the victim shows everyone has a double nature
                      1. Initially concerned but soon "professional ambition" to turn the situation to his advantage takes over
                        1. Stevenson shows that hypocrisy is widespread in Victorian Society
                      2. Utterson leads the Police to Hyde's house
                        1. Hyde lives down a "dingy street" in a "dismal quarter of Soho"
                          1. Utterson sees it as "some city in a nightmare" - it's a place of darkness and swirling fog - makes him feel uneasy
                            1. Contrasts with the comfortable house and respectable area that Jekyll lives in
                            2. Soho was an area associated with poverty and immorality
                              1. Located in the richer, more respectable West End of London
                                1. Reflects the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde - the immoral Hyde is located within the respectable Jekyll
                            3. Dual Nature of Man
                              1. Stevenson uses the minor character of Hyde's landlady to develop the idea that it's human nature to conceal our faults
                                1. She has an "evil face, smoothed with hypocrisy" but "her manners were excellent" - which shows that she's putting on a front of respectability
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