Imagery- concentrates on jekylls home
Hyde, his name ‘hide’ impression of deformity, murderous mixture of timidity and boldness
Like some damned juggernaut, a very big lorry
But why??
Colour imagery of red- danger, blood
Mentions the baize on the door twice- danger is coming!
In the main characters, Stevenson uses physical appearance as a tool for getting across the distinction of good and evil: for instance, Hyde’s pale and dwarfish, with “something displeasing, something downright detestable” appearance
More light ‘as he lay tossed I the gross darkness…scroll of lighted pictures, ‘great field of lamps of a nocturnal city’ ‘radience of a foul soul’
IN contrast to Hyde’s intimidating, unpleasant house Jekyll’sStill looking, go into chambers- rosy glow playing on the roof; more light imagery, domestic warmth adds to atmosphere. There seem to be mysteries and secrets
Stevenson’s description of nature adds to the tension, such as the ‘premature twilight’, ominous- warning?
Preparation, like a film. Atmosphere ade more exciting, desolation destructive nature of “the biting weather, the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing
The atmosphere is builded up when pool tries to look for the intruder.the tention is builded up. Hyde is very uncilvilized and we do not expect what comes next, a kind of pause in the dramaticaction of the scene
Mr hyde is shrouded in mystery
Stevenson creates atmosphere of goodness and evil by his descriptionsof nature…
He also hints at bad things happening . for example, there is red baize on Jekyll’s cabinert door. Stevenson mentions this twice in thestory
Minor characters in the story also play a part in reflecting goodness and evil, such as in chapter eight when we learn that Hyde has murdered an old man in a most inhuman, insensate manner.
the old man hyde murders…good character. Serves to emphasise hyde’s wickedness , beautiful gentleman with white hair- pure
Moon shone on his face as he spoke…trampling his victim underfoot
With ape-like fury
Described s insensate cruelty
The butler suggests “it” stays there. Not human. Could refer to something monsterous.
Reactions- ‘the hair stood upon my head like quills.
Towards the end of the story, Hyde gets stronger as Jekyll struggles more and more to fight this character off.Jekyll weaker. Visible in his appearance “had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder, appeared scared and worried
Theme of animal imagery develops, Jekyll is a rat, hyde is a hissing serpant
Poole says, “when that masked thing like a monkey” links to the ape-like fury
More door imagery is used, cobwebs- gothic feel
Stevenson mentions the old dissecting room because of macabre- deals with death
In the paragraph of chapter two there is the interplay of good and evil, civilization v. primitive troglodyte
In lanyon’s narrative we find out that hyde’s touch caused, :a certain icy pang along my blood
I could hear his teeth grate
