Jekyll and Hyde chapter 8(tension and fear)

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  • The behaviour of the servants
    • 'stood huddled together like a flock of sheep'
      • This creates fear as the collective noun shows how close proximity they are of each other so it is as if they are protecting each other
    • 'housemaid broke into hysterical laughter'
      • The housemaid is described as 'hysterical laughter' showing that she couldn't control the emotion therefore must have been hiding her fear for a long time
    • Fear and tension in Chapter 8
      • The weather/time/day
        • 'it was a wild,cold,seasonable night of March,with a pale moon,lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her
          • It is an objective correlative on the anticipation of calamity
          • Also pathetic fallacy techniques
          • Creates fear and tension as it sets an appropriate mood for the mystery to unravel
      • The letters
        • 'expense is no consideration'...'so far the letter had run composedly enough; but here, with a sudden splutter of the pen'
          • The letter is very composed at the beggining but where there is a splutter it ends more rude with 'for god's sake,find me some of the old'
          • Use of letter shows the desperation for the potion and creates on fear and tension as jekyll didn't know that the original potion was impure
        • 'but in place of the name Edward Hyde...read the name of Gabriel John Utterson'
          • This creates tension as we expect Hyde to have destroyed the will as he is no longer part of it however it is still intact
      • The disappearance of Jekyll
        • 'nowhere was there a trace of Jekyll dead or alive'
          • creates tension as it is a mini cliffhanger and we all can draw up different conclusions
        • 'he must be alive,he must have fled'
          • Utterson is asking lots of questions and is in denial so therefore is in a subconscious state
          • creates tension as it is close to the end of the chapter yet the climax has happened but the truth is not discovered.
      • the breaking down of the door
        • 'if all is well,my broad shoulders are enough to bear the blame'
          • creates fear as Poole is risking everything to help Jekyll leaving the reader tense
        • 'the frame bounded; four times the blow fell'
          • creates fear as it shows the extent Jekyll went too to hide his secrets
          • also a 'baize' was used which is sound proofing
      • The finding of the body
        • 'right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching'
          • very graphic which juxtaposes the normality  of the previous paragraph.
          • creates fear as Hyde is dead but Jekyll is nowehere to be found
      • Poole and Utterson Behaviour
        • 'with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves'
        • 'Mr utterson, biting his finger'
        • 'for his face was white, and his voice when he spoke, was harsh and broken'
        • 'Mr Utterson's nerves, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance'
        • All of these quotes cause fear as men are not meant to show emotion as they are logical

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