Chapter 2, pg 15
“Oh my poor old Henry Jekyll, if i ever read….”
religion, friendship, Jekyll, supernatural
“… Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
sibilance, juxtaposition, biblical reference
- Hydes been approved by Satan
- ‘friend’, juxtaposes immediately from ‘satan’
- contextually relates to religion - being against it
- shouldnt keep friends like this
Chapter 1, pg 1
“I incline to Cains heresy… I let
religion, reputation, opposite of repression, mr utterson
….my brother go to the devil in his own way”
biblical allusion
- ‘Cain’ and ‘abel’ were sons of Adam, and Cain murdered abel.
- hes ‘inclined’ to the dark side.
- foreshadows what happens in the book, lets Jekyll decline and turns the other cheek
- only gets involved at the end of the text when hes forced to - ignore eachothers sins
- contextually relates to being a victorian gentleman and reputation.
Chapter 10, pg 68
“I felt…
Hyde, Jekyll
….younger, lighter, happier in body”.
rule of 3
- Jekyll transforming into Hyde is not just the matter of transforming his personality and physical nature, its symbolism of the idea of the thoughts and feelings we have (morals)
- sounds like an addict, Hyde symbolises negativity.
- evil is enticing him, slave to his desires.
- contextually relates to the societal restraints of the victorian era, and how jekyll is the only one who chooses to live how he wants
- relates to stevensons wants to escape from these standards too.
hapter 10, pg 69
“All human beings…. commingled out of good and evil:…
duality
….and edward hyde alone….was pure evil”
‘pure’ adjective, ‘commingled’ verb
- what makes jekyll and hyde so unique is that they are housed in two seperate bodies which are living amongst society
- shows how if we dont control the duality on both extremes, highlights how we will become lost and shattered
- admittance that we are a commingle of good and bad, but becoming fully bad, you know something is wrong.
- contextually relating to freuds theory of the superego and the id
Chapter 10, pg 79
“i sat in the sun… the animal within me licking the chops of memory;….
violence, jekyll/hyde, repression
….the spiritual side a little drowsed.”
pathetic fallacy, zoomorphism, juxtaposition, metaphor
- hyde is dying to come out, licking the chops of memory (trampling the hirl, murding sir danvers carew).
- shows how animalistic Hyde is.
- felt free
- ‘spiritual side drowsed’, religion being pushed out (when religion goes evil comes).
- contextually relates to the victorian era and Darwin (we are all derived from animals)
Chapter 6, pg 36
“If I am the cheif of sinners,…
religion
…. I am the cheif of sufferers also.”
biblical allusion
- Jekyll is hated most of the time by the reader as we dont know much abiut him, however this quote highlights the theme of not messing with God.
- contextually relates to victorian gentlemen all being religious, and that trying to imitate god is disgraceful
- ‘if i have done bad then i have also suffered most with my sins’
- selfish to think he is suffering the most
Chapter 4, pg 23
“With ape like fury, he was….
Hyde, Violence, morality
… trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows….. bones were audibly shattered”
simile, sensory imagery,
- ‘the bones’ objectifying carew as he is definitely already dead
- Contextually relates to Darwins theory of evolution - uninvolved creature stuck in the timeline of evolution
- work of an animal - jekyll has gone backwards on evolution (not made any advancements like he wanted/expected, rather the opposite.
Chapter 1, pg 3
“The man trampled calmly….
Violence, Morality, Hyde
…. and left her screaming on the ground. ait sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.”
oxymoron
- Freuds theory - example of the Id in full flow
- not an enemy, just trampling an innocence
- letting the evil and desires take over.
- ‘tramples calmly’ highlights the utter violence and horrible thing hes just done
Chapter 1, pg 2
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood….
class contrast
….like a fire in a forest.”
simile
- this house contrasts and stands out like a sore thumb in the neighbourhood
- can tell where the poor and rich lived
- brings the divide and injustice of london home.
- comtextually represents
Chapter 5, pg 29
“I swear to God…I swear to God…..
religion, reputation
…. I will never set eyes on him again.”
bublical reference, repetition
- absolute promise, hes trying to convince himself
- hes lying to himself and to everyone that he is not mr hyde, in a way hes in denial
- God is the superego, victorian gentleman meant to be faithful believers of christianity
