Key Themes in Jekyll and Hyde
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- Created on: 18-05-17 11:13
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- Violence
- 'he broke out in a great flame of anger'
- verb: broke
- animalistic connotations
- breaking out of a cage
- link: troglodytic
- made Hyde unlikable; Darwin's theory very unpopular
- Highly religious England
- made Hyde unlikable; Darwin's theory very unpopular
- animalistic connotations
- noun: flame
- connotations of hell
- associates Hyde with the devil
- disliked by reader
- Highly religious England
- disliked by reader
- associates Hyde with the devil
- connotations of hell
- verb: broke
- 'the man trampled calmly over the child and left her screaming on the ground'
- verb: screaming
- suggests extreme pain
- location: ground
- relates to burial
- oxymoron: trampled calmly
- portrays Hyde's ignorance
- noun: child
- evokes empathy from the reader
- makes Hyde less likable to the reader
- evokes empathy from the reader
- verb: screaming
- 'Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds'
- verb: broke
- animalistic connotations: see above
- metaphor/noun: bounds
- could be referring to the restraint Jekyll keeps him under
- LINK: theme of duality
- could be referring to the restraint Jekyll keeps him under
- verb: broke
- 'clubbed him to the earth'
- verb: club
- connotations of cavemen
- noun: earth
- conveys Hyde's sheer cruelty
- verb: club
- 'he broke out in a great flame of anger'
- Reputation
- 'rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim'
- adjective: high
- capitalist society of 19th century
- juxtaposes criminal offence
- noun: victim
- evokes empathy before character is introduced
- presenting Hyde as a villain
- adjective: high
- 'he was wild when he was young'
- adjective: wild
- animalistic connotations
- LINK: Hyde broke out of all bounds
- foreshadows revelation that Jekyll + Hyde are the same
- shows there were certain expectations of young men in 19th century
- animalistic connotations
- second person objective pronoun: he
- repeated
- shows the nature of the 19th Century
- constantly being watched + judged
- portrays Utterson's distance from the situation
- reminds the reader that they only know as much as Utterson
- emphasises Gothic theme
- Victorian fear of the unknown
- emphasises Gothic theme
- reminds the reader that they only know as much as Utterson
- adjective: wild
- 'all intelligent, reputable men, and all good judges of wine'
- noun: wine
- implies they are all upper class
- the majority of London/Edinburgh was living in poverty
- suggests only upper class were reputable
- or that only the rich were concerned with reputation
- implies they are all upper class
- adjective: reputable
- directly referencing key theme
- adjective: intelligent
- juxtaposes Jekyll's own stupidity in creating Hyde
- noun: wine
- 'rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim'
- Science
- 'unscientific balderdash'
- Lanyon's differing opinion foreshadows end of novel
- noun: balderdash
- senseless: Lanyon juxtaposes Jekylll
- Completely represses dark side + implies men don't have one
- senseless: Lanyon juxtaposes Jekylll
- 'shook the very fortress of identity'
- verb: shook
- suggests it was unnatural, caused by man
- noun: identity
- link: theme of identity, man is not truly one, but truly two
- Biblical link; man made in the image of God
- Suggests to likely religious reader that Jekyll opposed God + the natural world
- verb: shook
- 'unscientific balderdash'
- Violence
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