1
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Setting in the novella is used both…
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Literally and metaphorically
2
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Stevenson uses setting to…
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- establisha. link between sinister landscapes and evil crimes
- reflect the underlying themes of the novel
3
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Setting
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- Description of Buildings
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Darkness
4
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Jekyll’s labatory was…
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‘Plunged in darkness’
5
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Jekll’s labatory had…
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‘Dusty windows barred with iron’
6
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Fog
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Adds the theme of mystery
Obscures secrets
7
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‘Plunged in darkness’
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- Jekylls dual nature
- The front of the house ‘wore a great air or wealth’
- Forshadows Jekll’s descent into moral darkness and corruption
8
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‘Dusty windows barred with iron’
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- depiction of prison
- entrapment
- Prisoner in his own body?
9
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‘Black winter morning’
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- Adjective ‘black’ has connotations of sinister, deadly
- Foreshadows evil
10
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‘Fog rolled over the city’
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- personification implies fog is obsucring the city
- unease for the readers
- danger and moral confusion - heightens tension
11
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‘Like a district of some city nightmare’
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- similie
- emphasises Soho’s frightening and scary nature
12
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‘The dismal quater of Soho seen under changing glimses’
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- reflects povery and moral decay
- less respectable side on London where Hyde is at home in his surroundings
- fragmented imagery adds to the mystery
Jekyll and Hyde
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