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    • Chapter 4 gruesome detail. Hyde "clubbed" carew bones were "audibly shattered"
    • Hyde has "more than sons indifference" which Jekyll has "more than a fathers intrest"
      • This father son terminology suggests as Hydes creator Jekyll cares about him however in the end Hyde hates that he needs Jekyll and wants to be a separate person.
    • Jekyll enjoys being Hyde describes himself as "schoolboy" throwing societies constraits and jumping "sea of liberty"
    • Lanyons shock when he seens Hyde's transformation is shoch "o god!"
    • Stevenson uses language of battle to describe "war" within Jekyll
      • The "2 natures that contendded in the field" of his mind sounds like 2 forces meeting on a battlefield
    • Stevenson reminds us how sinful Jekyll's actions are by using religious language
      • "secret sinner"
      • "the spirit of hell"
    • 3 main speakers
      • Utterson- rational and forma. Doesnt discuss scandals and uses phrases "tut-tut" to avoid giving opinions. Can be forceful "one more word" to Jekyll about his will. Can also be humourous "hyde" and "seek"
      • Jekyll- guarded, tries to avoid questions. Prefers silence over speaking sometimes.
      • Lanyon- jolly and theatrical. Makes jokes, voices criticisms but so disturbed by Hyde turn Jekyll couldn't write it down,
    • Hyde described like things
      • "like a rat" or "like satan"
      • Can't accurately describe him shows mysterious and threatening
    • Stevenson likes to create double meaning
      • After Carew murder as if Hyde "as if he never existed" foreshadowing the fact that this is true as he's really Jekyll

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