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Summary GSCE English Literature Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Theme Quotes from a Grade 9 student
GSCE English Literature Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Theme Quotes from a Grade 9 student
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GCSE English Literature RevisionPaper One:
Section B: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Themes:
Setting:
C1: ‘a busy quarter of London’ - description
‘shop fronts […] like rows of smiling saleswoman’ - sim. emulously flirtatious + deliberately
obscure AO3 prostitution shocked
Vict. reader
‘the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest’ - sim. AO3 duality
respectable
facade
‘black winter morning […] all as empty as a church’ - path. fall. sim. AO3 darkness spooky Gothic trope
C2: ‘that citadel of medicine’ - met. imagery
‘the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city’ - met. imagery
‘through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city’ - allit. AO3 mazes Gothic trope
‘fogged city moon’ - AO3 polluted London context
‘the low growl of London’ - personif. animalistic
‘the vast hum and clatter of the city’ - sound imagery
‘{Hyde’s house} a street in Soho’ - dingy AO3 class differences
‘{Jekyll’s house} ancient, handsome house […] a great air of wealth and comfort’ - adj. AO3 duality
Gothic trope
‘comfortable hall […] costly cabinets’ - adj. allit. decorations AO3 class differences
‘the pleasantest room in London’ - adj. hyp. grandeur
C3: none
C4: ‘London was startled by a crime of singular (unique/great) ferocity’ - met. personif. adj. violence
‘a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven’ - met. allit. religious imagery coffin closing all good
‘like the light of some strange conflagration’ - sim. adj. fire imagery oddness
‘mournful reinvasion of darkness’ - met. AO3 darkness Gothic trope
C5: ‘he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity’ - adj. uninviting AO3 secrets + duality Gothic trope
‘for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly’ - adv. repet. path. fall. AO3 city context
‘the fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city’ - personif. met. AO3 city context
‘lamps glimmered like carbuncles (a big boil / abscess)’ - adv. sim. noun personif. illness
‘through the great arteries’ - met. noun
‘gay with firelight’ - adj. fire imagery
C6: ‘when Utterson was liked, he was liked well’ - adj. repet. friendship
‘the dry lawyer’ - adj. dull + boring
‘his unobtrusive company [...] in the man’s rich solitude’ - adj. silent friendship
Fear / Horror / Terror:
C1: ‘kind of a black sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like Satan’ - sim. adj.
religious imagery evil
‘really damnable man’ - adj. religious curse
C7: ‘[…] succeeded by an expression of such abject (great) terror and despair […]’ - adj.
‘[…] froze the very blood of the two men below’ - met. visceral effect AO3 Gothic visceral effect
C9: ‘a fresh terror struck upon my soul’ - met. AO3 Gothic
Friendship:
C1: ‘his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time’ - sim. Mr Utterson steadily growing without considering
aptness
‘their Sunday walks […] the chief jewel of each week’ - met. Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield → religion not at
church
C2: ‘old mates both at school and college’ - context Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon
‘Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me’ - Dr Lanyon adj. science concerns
C3: ‘a sincere and warm affection’ - adj. Dr Jekyll and Mr Utterson
‘an ignorant, blatant pendant […] my scientific heresies’ - adj. met. science Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon
, ‘I would trust you before any man alive’ - hyp. Dr Jekyll and Mr Utterson
‘the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde’ - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde certainty
‘I only ask you to help him for my sake, when I am no longer here’ - trust between Dr Jekyll and Mr
Utterson AO3 secrecy
Gothic trope
‘when Utterson was liked, he was liked well’ - adj. repet. a good friend
‘you know me: I am a man to be trusted’ - adj. Mr Utterson and Dr Jekyll
‘an ignorant, blatant pendant […] scientific heresies’ - adj. met. science Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon
‘I only ask you to help him for my sake, when I am no longer here’ - friendship + trust with Mr Utterson
AO3 secrecy
Gothic trope
C4: none
C5: ‘his friend’s feverish manner’ - allit. caring for illness
C6:
C9: ‘my colleague and old school companion’ - Dr Lanyon about Dr Jekyll
‘we were by no means in the habit of correspondence’ - Dr Lanyon about Dr Jekyll, epistolary, not close
anymore
Science vs. Religion:
C1: ‘kind of a black sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like Satan’ - sim. adj. religious imagery
evil
‘really damnable man’ - adj. religious curse
C2: ‘sombre spirits […] dry divinity’ - allit. boring and dull religious text
‘definite presentment of a fiend’ - noun religious imagery
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’ - met. religious imagery
C3: ‘my scientific heresies’ - adj. met. disagreements
C4: none
C5: ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again’ - repet. religious curse + power shifts
‘O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!’ - exclaim. religious curse
‘his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical’ - science suggestive
C6:
C8: ‘I give you my bible-word it was Mr Hyde’ - when all else fails, return to religion to explain
Mystery:
C1: ‘kind of a black sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like Satan’ - sim. adj. religious imagery
evil
‘really damnable man’ - adj. religious curse
C2: ‘definite presentment of a fiend’ - noun religious imagery
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’ - met. religious imagery
C3: ‘my scientific heresies’ - adj. met. disagreements
C4: none
C5: ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again’ - repet. religious curse + power shifts
‘O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!’ - exclaim. religious curse
‘his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical’ - science suggestive
C6:
Secrecy / The Unknown:
C1: ‘kind of a black sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like Satan’ - sim. adj. religious imagery
evil
‘really damnable man’ - adj. religious curse
C2: ‘definite presentment of a fiend’ - noun religious imagery
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’ - met. religious imagery
C3: ‘my scientific heresies’ - adj. met. disagreements
C4: none
C5: ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again’ - repet. religious curse + power shifts
‘O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!’ - exclaim. religious curse
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