‘displeasing smile’
(Hyde, Repression → Chapter 2)
‘displeasing smile’ (oxymoron) → Hyde is still smiling, showcasing his lack of conformity to the societal idea that emotions should be repressed (e.g. Utterson → ‘never lighted by a smile’)
psychoanalytical approach → ‘smile’ is a manifestation of repressed desires surfacing through subconscious , but in an unsettling form
‘great flame of anger’
(Hyde, Repression → Chapter 4)
‘flame’ (noun) → connotes fire and chaos, Hyde continues to not repress his anger/emotions
‘great’ (adjective) → emphasises Hyde’s uncontrollable emotions
Stevenson shows how repression doesn’t control emotions/desires, it intensifies them
‘broke out of all bounds’
(Hyde, Repression → Chapter 4)
plosive → indicates and emphasises Hyde’s anger
alt. ‘broke’ (verb) → suggests a forceful escape, not only shows Hyde’s uncontrollable nature but how entrenched repression truly is
‘bounds’ (noun) → implies complete removal of limits, no longer trapped by repression
Gothic trope → violence & excessive emotional states
‘masked thing like a monkey’
(Hyde, Repression → Chapter 8)
‘masked’ (adjective) → Hyde is still repressive in his own space, showing how repression is deeply rooted in society
‘like a monkey’ (simile) → connotes devolution, linking to Darwin’s theory of evolution and Darwinian fears of degeneration
psychoanalytical approach → ‘mask’ suggests concealment of immoral desires, whilst ‘monkey’ suggests the physical manifestation of the instinctive id (Hyde)
