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Jekyll and Hyde (Characters (Mr. Poole, Mr. Enfield, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, Mr…
Jekyll and Hyde
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Critical Quotes
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
Language Techniques
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Personification
Stevenson uses personification when describing the laboratory in the opening chapter: 'a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.'
Imagery
Stevenson uses imagery when describing Carew's dead body: 'The stick with which the deed had been done...had broken under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter'.
Powerful verbs
Stevenson uses powerful verbs when describing Carew's dead body, such as 'mangled.'
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Social Context
•Charles Darwin had published his theory on natural selection which changed science and religion forever.
•Most people doubted his theories which were first published in 1859, when Stevenson was 9. Darwin showed that the determining factors of life are chance and necessity in the “survival of the fittest.”
•Many people saw it as an attack on religion because it made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days.
•Darwin’s theory of evolution thereby undermined the value of traditional religion and morality, which had been accepted for centuries as the guiding principle of mankind, because it implied that man was no more than a “talking monkey”, and no God was necessary to create him. It revolutionised man’s conception of himself.
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•Also at its time of release many people saw science and a belief in religion and the supernatural as at odds with each other and had to choose between the two.
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