Jekyll And Hyde - Sin

Question 1

How is sin presented

Answer 1

Attractive
Pervasive and growing
Destructive (of identity)

Question 2

in chapter 2 how is sin presented with examples

Answer 2

‘Ghost of some old sin’ sin lingers and haunts
‘Cancer of some concealed disgrace’ sin is spreading and corruptive - cannot be stopped and killed, concealed shows Victorians locking away secrets
‘Jack in the box of an old inquiry’ also shows something locked up
‘Punishment coming’ - justice will arrive, and sin is attractive in the moment but ‘haunts’ you later - ‘humbled to the dust by the … ill things he had done’
‘The many he had come so near to doing’ sin is tempting
Long sentences increase idea of overwhelming guilt - sin is destructive mentally

Question 3

Across the whole play?

Answer 3

Physical and mental comsequences:
‘Grinding in the bones, deadly nausea’
‘Came out of a great sickness, delight, glee, ectasy’
‘Leap of welcome, sea of liberty, schoolboy, spring, new provinces..knowledge..new avenues..fame and power laid open’
‘Evil besides had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay’, ‘ugly’, ‘on the face’
‘Impenetrable .. would pass way like a stain of breath on a mirror’
‘Juggernaut, stamping, flame of anger’
‘Would leap almost without transition’
‘He,him,him’
‘My body seemed not strong enough to contain .. powers of Hyde’