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- - - - The Cold is associated with Exposure and openness. This relates to how the cold is exposing Jekyll. This would scare a Victorian reader as lots of secrets are kept in Victorian society.
      - This makes the reader associate Hyde with the cold. It in turn makes the reader anticipate evil when the cold is mentioned.
  - - - This scares the reader because it shows Hyde true power.
      - Jekyll's struggle worries the Victorian reader because a Victorian reader may be scared their secret desires will over take them as well.
  - - - The Effect on The Reader
        
        The phrase "If I slept..." implies that Jekyll doesn't sleep. It helps the reader understand the constant torment Jekyll is under.
        
        "For a moment" emphasizes the short amount of time it takes for Hyde to take over. This shows the reader Hyde's true amount of control over Jekyll
        
        The whole quotation tells the reader that Jekyll is struggling to overcome Hyde.
    - - This could scare the reader as it shows that Hyde is very powerful
      - This scares the reader because it shows how Jekyll is weakening and losing control.
      - This could help the reader to understand the struggle that is always going on inside Jekyll and therefore make the reader connect with Jekyll further
- - - - You see Jekyll start to feel sorry for Hyde which suggests that even though he hates Hyde he shows compassion toward him. It suggests that because Hyde doesn't want to let go of life Jekyll understands this and feels sorry for him.
      - Could relate to how Jekyll has many friends he can turn to but Hyde only has himself because he wasn't excepted in society.
  - - - Quotation "He now see's the full deformity of that creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness and was co-heir to with him to death."
        
        "thought of Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of something not only hellish but inorganic"
    - - Quotation "His terrors of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide
    - - This might suggest duality between the start of the novella and the end because at the start Jekyll was really excited about Hyde and how he can finally live his double life but now he just wants to get rid of Hyde because his crimes and the guilt is to much for him.
        
        A reoccurring theme of duality throughout the novella
      - It might also suggest that there's a power struggle between what Jekyll thinks is morally right and what Hyde and society has pushed him into. A Victorian audience would take this as Jekyll being weak and ungentlemanly because you were conditioned to keep everything to yourself and expressing your desires ruined your reputation.
        
        A reoccurring theme throughout the novella
      - Makes the reader feel empathy towards Jekyll, he made a mistake and felt like he couldn't live without Hyde so when he talks about hating Hyde you feel sorry because hes stuck with him now
  - - - This highlights to the reader just how powerful and scary Hyde is
        
        A reoccurring theme of a power struggle towards the end of the novel
        
        Jekyll feels the only way out of this is suicide, to rid the world of two evils Hyde who is the typical representation of evil. Then there Jekyll who isn't typically evil but only thinks about himself and had the idea of playing God and splitting his personality
        
        Victorian society was take this as a sin because your going against God wishes and religion was important in Victorian society
      - It also suggests that Jekyll is growing weaker not just physically but mentally as well, we see earlier in the story Jekyll randomly transforms into Hyde, this shows he physically weak and can not contain Hyde within himself, however now he is "cracking" under all this guilt and pressure from society to be perfect and hide everything.
      - It also makes the reader question if Hyde continues to draw strength from Jekyll, what will happen to Hyde once Jekyll gives up all hope will Hyde die with him because Hyde lives of Jekyll and can not survive without him because he is apart of his soul and apart of his personality or are Jekyll's desires and pleasures so strong that Hyde can break away all together.
- - - - "It is useless and time awfully fails me"
        
        This exhibits Jekyll's despair and shows that over time Hyde is gaining even more power. It shows final moments of Jekyll taking his normal form, implying his deep regret as it shows that he is being defeated by the evil that he chose to explore.
        
        Jekyll's regret is also portrayed in the quote "punishment might have gone on for years" which implies that he knows the severity of what he has done and that realises he should be punished for it but it has gone so far that he has lost all control and is unable to change anything.
        
        A Victorian reader could see this as Jekyll's final decision to submit defeat to Hyde which could be linked to the creation story where Adam and Eve gave in to the temptation of evil and betrayed God in their attempt to gain more knowledge which resembles Jekyll's will to attempt to change something that is out of his power.
        
        This therefore could present Hyde as being the snake and tempting Jekyll into this trap of evil, showing him to be the Satan in the story who tricked someone good into doing all kinds of evil things such as murder.
      - "but for the last calamity which has now fallen"
        
        This perhaps shows the final decision of Jekyll to give up the fight against Hyde and could represent him acknowledging the idea of suicide to end all of his trouble.
        
        "fallen" portrays that he has reached the end of his ongoing downfall and is no longer able to change again introducing the idea of regret and that death is inevitable.
        
        This may allow the reader to understand the full power that Hyde has over Jekyll and that the story of Jekyll is coming to an end as he is unable to go back on anything as he has reached the end of his fall just as he has reached the end of being able to control Hyde's power.
  - - - Shows that Jekyll has reached a certain end and there is nothing he can do in his power to reverse what he has done, he is unable to reverse his own creation.
      - It perhaps shows that Jekyll's mental strength has deteriorated to a point of no return as he has no hope and his mental fight has taken place for so long he has reached point of defeat.
        
        This could act as a warning to readers not to challenge the powers of God especially to those who would of read the book in the Victorian era as it shows that the power, even if not visible, is always stronger.