themes in Jekyll and Hyde

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  • Created on: 05-04-18 19:51

themes in Jekyll and Hyde

  • suspicion 
  • duality
  • violence
  • unnatural
  • friendship
  • good Vs evil
  • secrecy
  • darkness
  • fear
  • loyalty
  • horror
  • evolution 
  • mystery
  • morals
  • danger
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duality

-contrast between jekyll and hyde

-the setting -Hyde apartment compared to Jekyll's house

- the structure - Utterson narrates chapters 1-8 - lanyon chapter 9 - Jekyll chapter 10

-Utterson builds the tension then at the end we get the answers.

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secrecy / blackmail

-Utterson-" ashamed of my long tongue" -doesn't like spreading gossip/secrets

- Utterson fears that Jekyll is being blackmailed by Hyde - " i begin to fear it is disgrace" - chapter 2

-there is the idea of a scandal as in Jekyll's will it says " dissapearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding calander months, the said Edward Hyde should step into Henry Jekyll's shoes" - chapter 2

-Jekyll has a 'concealed disgrace' this shows secrecy as they never menton what he has done. -chapter 2

- " ape like fury" - this shows secrecy as it is strangely animalistic it also shows that Hyde is less evolved than Jekyll - chapter 4

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