Edward Hyde
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- Created on: 05-05-17 19:13
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- Edward Hyde
- Fluid nature
- Characters who meet him feel a physical revulsion and overwhelming sense of evil
- 'Like some damned juggernaut'
- When Utterson approaches him, he shrinks back from him 'with a hissing intake of breath'
- Often described in animalistic terms
- 'hissing' reminds us of a snake and it's
- Presented as 'deformed'
- Maybe not fully formed in his evil ways
- 'pale and dwarfish'
- 'broken voice'
- 'hardly human'
- 'unpleasant'
- Inspires in people 'a nausea and distaste for life'
- Antagonist
- Brings out the worst in others
- 'sinful' according to Victorian standards
- 'wore clothes far too large for him' -Much younger than Jekyll, symbolically suggesting the evil in Jekyll didn't develop until years after he was born.
- Represents devolution- descent to a worse state
- Can't hide who he is and what he represents
- Only character who's true to himself
- 'trampled calmly' over a young ******* the pavement and 'left her screaming on the ground'
- Amoral act-no intention
- Animalistic
- Like a new born animal adjusting to the world, Hyde is getting used to his surroundings.
- 'snarled aloud into a savage laugh'
- Often described in animalistic terms
- Stevenson could be implying that our subconscious is more primal and closer to nature than our conscious sides are
- All of us harbor some animalistic based actions.
- Murdered Sir Danvers Carew
- Actions suggested to be depraved and perverted
- No sense of guilt
- Carew approached Hyde with a 'pretty manner of politness'
- Carew represents the upper class of Victorian London
- The old world kindness refers to the established values used among the Victorian class, who were nervous and worried about the influx of others not like them into London, for fears their way of life may be altered or overtaken.
- Hyde smashes this old way of life to pieces, and it;s a crime that 'startled' London
- More notable by the high position of the victim
- Hyde smashes this old way of life to pieces, and it;s a crime that 'startled' London
- The old world kindness refers to the established values used among the Victorian class, who were nervous and worried about the influx of others not like them into London, for fears their way of life may be altered or overtaken.
- Carew represents the upper class of Victorian London
- Maid said Hyde 'carried on like a madman', attacking Carew with an 'ape-like fury'.
- Actions suggested to be depraved and perverted
- Represents the dangerous elements of London
- Lives and socializes in Soho
- Respectable Victorians would not have ventured publically
- Very Secretive
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