Jekyll and Hyde short quotes revision

Jekyll and Hyde revision

How to structure your answers:

Opinion/answer ->Textual reference/quotes -> Effect of language ->Effect on reader -> Writers Intentions -> Influence of context (if needed)

Themes:

• Duality of human nature
• Friendship/curiosity - drives the plot forward
• Science and the unexplained
• Religion
• Reputation/appearance - Victorian values
• Hypocrisy
• Silence/secrecy – refusal to reveal? Cannot reveal? – Blackmail, shock etc.
• Urban terror – link between Victorian London and horrors
• Darwinism/devolution
• Suppression - Violence
• Beast within man (innate evil)
• Good vs. evil

Other things:

• Gothic novel: MODERN
• No reader distance from the horrors - FEAR
• Draw on science rather than superstition - MORE BELIEVABLE - FEAR
• Draw on the possible rather than the absurd (monsters) - TRUE FEAR
• Emphasis on horror IN us/rather than in a distant place (externally) 
• Stevenson uses a lot of PATHETIC FALLACY to signal to the reader that something bad is going to happen. (a horror movie isn't complete without thunder and lightning)
• Stevenson makes the chapters and the way the reader is placed very confusing DELIBERATELY.

Some important quotes:

Setting (There is a great use of PATHETIC FALLACY)

• "a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/HYDE
• "a large, low-roofed, comfortable hall, paved with flags, warmed (after the fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/JEKYLL/DUALITY
• "once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and bare" -  SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY
• "the fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY
• "A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/RELIGION
• "the door which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained." - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/HYDE/SECRETS
• "three dusty windows barred with iron" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/SECRECY
• "the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/DUALITY/HYDE
• "the door of this, which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged into darkness" - SETTING/PATHETIC FALLACY/JEKYLL/DUALITY
• "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning" -  REPUTATION/SECRETS/SETTING/DUALITY

Hypocrisy:

• “No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene…name your figure”
• “if your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit”
• “men before hired bravos to transact their crimes”
• Jekyll = “a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion”
• Utterson meant to be “last good influence of downgoing men” - DOESN’T HELP JEKYLL

Science:

• Lanyon: “Such unscientific balderdash” - contrasting views yet an “inseparable friend” seen as “hidebound pedant”
• “transcendental medicine” - the science of the supernatural

Religion:

• "Pious work…annotated with startling blasphemies”
• Hyde is “staggering the unbelief of Satan”
• “read the signature of Satan”
• Jekyll:
• “fond of the respect of the wise”
• “such irregularities as I was guilty of…hid them with sense of shame”
• “I felt younger, lighter happier”
• “shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition”
• “***** off these lendings, and spring into a sea of liberty”
• “greedy gusto"

Suppression:

• “my…