Jekyll Character Analysis
- Created by: MiaT212
- Created on: 10-06-19 17:08
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- Jekyll
- 'The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes.'
- The Juxtaposition of his 'handsome face' with his 'pale lips' and black eyes shows a man's duality can not only be mental but physical too
- 'Pale' has an association with death that comes later in the novel. The 'blackness' links to his Hyde side.
- The change can over very quickly when talking about the will. The reader gets the sense of evil spreading uncontrollably
- 'The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen'
- The sibilance of 'smile was struck' quickens the pace with which the pleasant smile is replaced with the contrasting 'abject terror'
- 'Smile' is a pleasant image and it is removed forcefully and violently when it's 'struck out'. Hyde cause a physical reaction with all he meets and it 'froze' the blood of Utterson and Enfield.
- 'Succeeded' has associations with victory-there is a clear sense of battle between Jekyll and Hyde and good and evil.
- 'My imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came that I concealed my pleasures.'
- The alliteration of 'head high' represents how Jekyll feels society demands reputation and dignity.
- The idea Jekyll has to 'wear' a socially acceptable persona links to a costume and how Jekyll is a facade and Hyde is who is behind that costume
- Concealed has connotations of being hidden away.
- 'I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.'
- 'Jekyll's conclusion is correct - 'steadily', 'truth' and 'discovery' convey rational analysis and show his conclusions are accurate not blasphemies.
- Jekyll's discover is a 'doomed ... shipwreck' which suggests religious judgement from God.
- The repetition of 'truly' and 'truth' shows Jekyll is correct and should not be blamed for the truth.
- 'The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes.'
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