Jekyll and Hyde essay plans based on themes
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- Created on: 23-03-19 17:00
✓Scientific Development (Duality, Curiosity)
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SETTING: Jekyll’s house has a lab connected to it
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“Dingy windowless structure”
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“Old dissection room”
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IDEA: The idea that Jekyll’s science is ridiculous
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Lanyon’s dismissal of Jekyll’s Science “such unscientific balderdash” “i wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll (...) whom i regard as dead”
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Lanyon dies from the horrors of Jekyll’s science in chapter 6 as he “had his death warrant written legibly upon his face” and in “less than a fortnight he was dead” after his mind was “submerged in terror” after witnessing the transformation of Hyde into Jekyll
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EVENT: Lanyon is skeptical of the chemicals in Jekyll’s room and frightened by the transformation
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“I loaded an old revolver (...) for self defense”
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“Sprung” to his feet
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“Leaped” back against a wall
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“Arms raised to shield” himself
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His “Mind submerged in terror”
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Lanyon is left in the distressed state of some feeble animal
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SETTING; Jekyll was clearly up to some sort of experiment by the state of his room and belongings
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Powders that were of “Jekyll’s private manufacturer”
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A “pungent” “phial” filled with “blood red liquor”
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In a ‘diary’ of Jekyll’s with “several hundred entries” the phrases “double” and “total failure!!!” were repeated throughout
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IDEA: Jekyll represents the outcast of society as he was experimenting with science to please his duality and to contribute to helping society to enquire against religious restrictions
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His “scientific discoveries” and beliefs were that “man is not truly one, but truly two”
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Despite having “risked death” and suffered “racking pangs” he was determined for his two sides to be “housed in separate identities”
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Despite feeling “younger, lighter, happier” he knew that he had failed as his new self had not an “innocent freedom of the soul” as he had just created a man “tenfold more wicked” as he describes he “sold a slave to my original self”
✓Duality (Science, Repression, Appearance, Curiosity, Secrecy, Deceit, Violence)
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SETTING; duality of Jekyll’s house and Hyde’s house
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The back of Jekyll’s house reflects the Hyde that he hides. It is described as a ‘dingy windowless structure’ with a ‘blistered’ door that promoted ‘sordid negligence’. This reflects hyde as being odd and out of place. The cabinet is described as ‘gaunt’
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The front of jekyll's house represents the ‘Jekyll’ that he shows to society. It has a ‘great air of wealth and comfort’ being one of the most ‘pleasantest rooms’ in London’. This shows Jekyll’s personality and being welcoming. The fact that it has a great deal of ‘wealth’ shows Jekyll's position in society.
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Hyde lives in Soho which is described as being poor with ‘many ragged children’ with being in a ‘dingy’ street. We associate hyde's personality as being dark, however his ‘furnished with luxury and good taste’ rooms juxtaposes the area he lives in and comes as quite a shock to us as the reader, which instantly causes skeptical about how he was able to afford all this wealth.
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IDEA,EVENTS; Jekyll plans to separate his…
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