Jekyll and Hyde - Structure
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- Created on: 02-04-17 09:01
Jekyll and Hyde - Structure
- Written like a legal document mystery - heightens tension
- Chapter titles written like doctor's notes
- Characters tell story in their own voice
- Dialogue and written testimonies create illusion of reality
- Written in 3rd person narrative so reader has same clues and questions as characters
- Testimonies in 1st person narrartive gives different perspective - shows emotion and bias - epistolary form
- Lanyon - "Moral turpitude that man unveiled to me" Jekyll - "I felt younger, lighter, happier in body"
- "Moral turpitude" - criminal law phrase
- Dialogue is important, Utterson learns everything through conversations eg. door, girl trampled, Hyde
- Long sentences raise suspense
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Jkyll and Hyde - Duality
- Utterson is contradictory - has money = "austere" "last good influence on the lives of downgoing men" = judges Hyde immediately "cold" = "lovable" trusted as lawyer = "Jekyll spoke about you"
- Contextually London had 2 sides
- Jekyll's house has back and front door - key is metaphor for transormation
- Jekyll's house - "high" "handsome" = "decayed" "shady"
- Lanyon vs Jekyll scientific perspectives "unscientific balderdash"
- Jekyll - "handsome", well respected- his friends are "judges of good wine", intelligent, "kindness", "sincere", "warm"
- Hyde - repetition of something makes him sound alien, "hisses", "growls", "small", "nightmarish", "ape-like fury", "deformed", "satan", never properly described - heightens suspense, "no face"
- "My original and better self... my second and worse"
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Jekyll and Hyde - Secrecy
- "veil", "mantle", "mask"
- Characters keep secrets to maintain reputations - Lanyon won't say why him and Jekyll have fallen out, why are Enfield and Carew walking through at night
- Utterson to Poole when Jekyll is dead - "I would say nothing of this paper...we may at least save his credit"
- "Fog lay heavy" appears when there are secrets
- "We see very little of him on this side of the house" - windows and doors are a symbol of portal
- "I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession" - Jekyll at end
- Violence against girl is kept secret - payed off
- "grew very pale to the lips" - wants to keep Hyde a secret, gets scared
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Jekyll and Hyde - Good and Evil
- "good and ill, divide and compound man's dual nature"
- Jekyll - "handsome", well respected - his friends are "judges of good wine" intelligent, "kindness", "sincere", "warm"
- Hyde - repetition of something makes him sound alien, "hisses", "growls", "small", "nightmarish", "ape-like fury", "deformed", "satan" nover properly described - heightens suspense, "no face
- People believed appearance refected personality
- Maid - "evil face" but "manners were excellent"
- London "busy quater of London" = "decayed", "shady"
- Hyde's house has no windows
- Minor characters - Carew out at night?
- "Large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes" - mention of Hyde
- Story always set in Winter or Autumn
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Jekyll and Hyde - Christian views
- Charles Darwin - many opposed his scientific views (Lanyon vs Jekyll)
- Hude associated with "Hell" and "Satan" - shows no mercy
- Jekyll refers to Hyde as "the spirit of Hyde" and "my devil"
- "Until the clock of the neighbouring church rang" - Utterson plans his schedule around church bells
- "Juggernaut" - derived from Hindy God Krishna - evil entity/symbol of all religions
- "fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God" - Jekyll turning to God for redemption (chap. 10)
- Temptation like the devil - Hyde tempting Jekyll "the animal within me, licking the chops of my memory"
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Mr Utterson
- Position as a lawyer in his group of friends gives him authority
- "cold" = "lovable"
- has money = "austere"
- "last good influence on the lives of downgoing men" = judges Hyde immediately
- tusted as a lawyer = "Jekyll spoke about you"
- Outspoken - "I can't pretend that I shall ever like him"
- Curious - investigates Hyde "If he shall be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek"
- His contradictory nature suggest balance and lack of bias
- Not always honest - "I would say nothing of this paper... we may at least save his credit"
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Minor Characters
- Enfield - secrecy, why was he out at night? Provides inforation about door
- Poole - respectful, gives Utterson information about Jekyll's behaviour
- Mr Guest - amateur expert in handwriting, notices similarity between Hyde's and Jekyll's writing
- Hyde's housekeeper - "smoothed by hypocrisy" and "excellent manners" - not normal "silvery haired old woman" - witchy
- The maidservant - "romantically given" - language of her testimony creates strong contrast between innocent victim and evil murderer
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