Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - LANGUAGE Flashcards

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Why is the narrative formal?

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  • written in Victorian era

- reflective/ symbolic of Mr Utterson’s character

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Why isn’t the description of Sir Danvers Carew’s more graphic?

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Censorship

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Why is Hyde’s brutality presented formally?

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Symbolises that under civilised, formal society, there is uncivilised and primitive side

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Why is there use of personification, and give two examples

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  • to add menacing, eerie feel to places + objects
  • ’in every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence’ - laboratory has emotions + human body - capable of feeling neglected
  • ’cab crawled’ - everything burdened and depressed
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Why is figurative language (eg. Metaphors + similes) used to describe Hyde?

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To capture horror he conveys - many characters lost for words when they see him

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Give an example of a simile used to describe Hyde’s strength

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’it was like some damned Juggernaut’ - anyone confronted by him are helpless to his brute force, inhumanity, unstoppable

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How else is Hyde usually presented?

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Animalistic connotations - ’ape-like’ - scientific allusion to Darwin’s theory

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