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Jekyll and Hyde Mind map (Pt 2)
Chapter 6- The incident of Dr Lanyon
Synopsis
Jekyll begins to become more societable coming out of his house more and dining with Utterson, however this stops after two months due to Jekyll's "ill health", Lanyon is then seen to be in a deathly nature and greatly troubled thus not himself- Lanyon then died two weeks after.
Key Quotes and Annotations
"He had his death-warrant written legibly on his face"
Metaphorical- This shows Lanyon is close to his demise yet that his facial features almost coalesce to demonstrate his illness- therefore Stevenson is subtly hinting towards Lanyon's pain and therefore the affect Hyde has had on him (with information from chapter 10)
"I am quite done with that person (...) to one whom I regard as dead"
Lanyon openly admits to Jekyll's metaphorical demise therefore alluding that he is the cause of Lanyon's illness. Jekyll is considered dead and outcasted from society via his link towards Hyde and therefore lack of reputation- Victorian norms have killed Jekyll via his shocking associations (Jekyll's plan to be Hyde in order to get away from the pressures of societal norms has failed- no one can escape victorian expectations.
"If I am the chief of sinners, then I am the chief of sufferers also"
Lanyon links himself to the devil (via the science he had seen) therefore showing how he is outcast by God- portraying how his death is correct as a payment for his criminal status towards God.
Note: Semantic field of death shows how Hyde can only bring about destruction whether physically or spiritually via calling upon the daemonic and disregarding the teachings of God and thus Victorian standards (he is an outsider).
Chapter 7- Incident at the window
Synopsis
Utterson and Enfield are on their walk when they go to see Jekyll and meet him outside his window, he initially engages in cordial conversation yet then suddenly removes himself and slams the window (as if he has been greatly affected by something
Key Quotes and annotations
"infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner"
Simile- Jekyll is presented to be both ostensibly trapped within his home in boredom (almost unable to show his face under the weight of societal pressures) and subtly trapped within his mind of being both Jekyll and Hyde.
"Such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below"
The fear is contagious and caused great effect on the men, the cold is symbolic of death and melancholic emotions linking there feelings of despair and how the story is entombed into a state of fear and grief.
"God forgive us, God forgive us"
Enfield and Utterson feel they have sinned just by looking at the scene therefore the reader gains an insight/hinted towards the devilish nature of what Jekyll is hiding
Chapter 8- The Last Night
Synopsis
Poole reaches out to Utterson for he feels Hyde has killed Jekyll and taken his place in the study. Utterson and Poole agree and then knock down the door to reveal Hyde's twitching carcass (as he commited suicide)- they look for the body of Jekyll yet cannot find it. Utterson and Poole find some packages and letters addressed to Utterson which give some revelations.
Key Quotes and annotations
"lying on her back as if the wind had tilted her" (...) "wind made talking difficult, and flecked blood into the face.
Pathetic Fallacy- Nature has be disrupted and dangerous- the moon is presented to be alive therefore giving connotations of werewolves and the supernatural therefore suggesting how the daemonic is linked with the up and coming scene. The wind also causes pain signifying the power of nature.
Although the normal characteristics of a scary moon are subverted as it is normally believed that the moon should be full etc.
"The thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves against the railings"
Personification- Nature has been manipulated in order to inflict pain on itself (a foreshadowing towards the suicide of Hyde), therefore Hyde has great power over nature and is causing great damage over the scene.
"When that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals (..) it went down my spine as ice"
Simile (x2)- The atavistic trademarks of Hyde are revealed therefore suggesting to the audience his further link to Jekyll, the repeated use of ice and cold connotations suggests how dark and melancholic Hyde's power is (shielded from the warmth of God"
"notated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies"
Hyde's/Jekyll's subversion of religious beliefs is clear therefore revealing how daemonic Hyde acts. The men are shocked by them as they feel their respect and trust of Jekyll may have been weakened.
Chapter 9- Dr Lanyon's Narrative
Note: Utterson is never explicitly revealed to have seen the letters nor his emotions and thoughts are revealed in relation to them therefore Stevenson fits the norms of how a Victorian should be nosy as (like Utterson) they will never find the information they crave.
Synopsis
Lanyon (in his letter) reveals how he saw Hyde change into Jekyll via his procurement of the correct ingredients needed for the morph, this Lanyon views in his curiosity therefore further demonstrating Stevenson's fit within the norms via discouraging other from being curious (expressing their Id personality).
Key quotations and annotations
"something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of creature"
Hyde is again regarded to have an untraceable deformity whereby his is unliked- Lanyon describes him as more attavistic as less a human and more a lower-level organism- as if he was born like this.
"I could hear his teeth grate"
Metaphor- Hyde is again likened to a hound (deadly and de-evolved).
"your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of satan"
Plosives- The emphasis on Hyde's power is revealed as if his is imposing his own emotions and will upon Lanyon. Hyde also openly admits to being a spawn of satan so that he has worked within the shadows of society, yet his work is so shocking that even the daemonic would be concerned.
"moral turpitude"
Hyde is revealed to be wicked and against the Victorian moral code- therefore made an outcast by society.
Chapter 10- Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the case
Synopsis
Jekyll reveals both his motives towards making the potion alongside how he felt to be Hyde.
Why did Jekyll make the potion?
"a certain impatient gaiety of disposition" (...) "hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame"
Jekyll created the potion as he felt trapped that he was unable to express his frivolous side to his personality- he was troubled by how he must repress his nature in order to fit within Victorian norms he wanted to split his personality so that he could exercise his wild side without impacting on his reputation. (morbid- he was scared of death (of his reputation) if he did not hide his nature))
"doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck, that man is not truly one, but truly two"
Metaphor- Jekyll's research has lead him to be sentenced to a finalty of knowledge knowing that all people have two sides of their personality- his revelation that all people have this instinct to be respectable and wild demonstrates how the foundations of societal norms are false and therefore Stevenson criticises why it is imposed that people should repress their diversity.
How did Jekyll make the potion?
"attempt is made to cast it off, but returns upon us with a more unfamiliar and awful pressure"
Personification- Jekyll reveals how the societal and emotion pressure he faced in creating the potion is too great therefore he does not reveal how he made the potion to discourage others in coping his studies and and facing emotional torment as a result.
What/How did Jekyll feel when he took the potion?
"A current of disordered sensual images running like a mill-race in my fancy"
Simile- Jekyll felt overwhelmed by the freedom he experienced knowing he was another person with no societal bounds restraining him for fear of losing reputation
"A horror of the spirit which cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death"
Metaphorical- Jekyll reveals how the spiritual and physical pain he felt was the same (if not greater) as a child being born and overwhelmed by life, therefore how the positive freedom he had was only possible with sustained spiritual anguish and torment.
Why did Hyde look the way he did?
"nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and to control if had bee much less exercised and much less exhuasted"
Jekyll reveals how Hyde was the direct manifestation of his more evil side- it was smaller as he was more good than evil in his personality therefore hide was weaker also as his evil side was not as well used by Jekyll. / He was deformed as no virtuous person can live within a "eutopic" society (etc.)
Jekyll makes the shocking revelation that all people has some virtue and evil within them therefore linking to the concept of
Yin and Yang
, shocking the Victorian audience as they believe respectable members of society are only virtuous etc.
What were positives of the experiment?
"Like a schoolboy, strip of these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty"
Metaphor- Jekyll alludes to how he can now be juvenile in his actions with out fear of losing his reputation, he can break away from societal barriers and feel free (as if he is a young child whereby people accept bad things will happen yet do not hold him accountable). - he says how freedom is expansive and therefore how an infinite amount of opportunities he can explore without consequence.
What went wrong and why?
"It was in vain I looked about me, in vain I saw the decent furniture, in vain that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains" / "It was the hand of Edward Hyde"
Repetition- Jekyll remarks how he could not find and answer for his strange feeling therefore his personalities of Jekyll and Hyde were linked
His two lives had become intertwined and when he changed unexpectedly (into Hyde) he was scared of losing control of his two natures.
"seemed, like a babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgement"
Metaphor(ical)- Jekyll was doomed by his meddling acts against God and society therefore pleasing the audience and fitting the norms (by Stevenson)- Link to historical allusions therefore showing how his destiny was almost in the past and uncontrollable to him.
No one should try to alter the path of society and a person's nature
"I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow"
Juxtaposition- The ideas of happiness and pain are linked as Hyde feels happiness when he inflicts pain therefore against nature and distorted against the fabric of nature.