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• “blood-red liquor” – warning of danger (connotations of red)
• “these covered a period of many years”
• “the more I reflected, the more convinced I grew that I was dealing with a case of cerebral disease” – poignant/sad/ highlights lack of understanding of self in Victorian times even by doctors. Lack of understanding which leads to the creation of Hyde.
• Repetition of references to “London”  - brings narrative to society at large.
• “knocker sounded very gently” (Hyde – his actions constantly defy our expectations e.g. adverb of gently – implies humanity)
• “crouching” (Hyde – suggestions of submission/ vulnerable)
• “policeman…advancing with his bulls eye open” – police represent the watchers and guarders of society “bulls eye”Just as a bull…
• Hyde – “great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution” contrast
• “dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable” – scorned by society.
• “he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria”
  • exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement:
    "the anti-Semitic hysteria of the 1890s"
    synonyms: frenzy · wildness · feverishness · irrationality · hysterics ·
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    loss of control · panic · panic attack · alarm · outburst/fit of agitation · loss of reason · fit of madness · neurosis · delirium · derangement · mania · distress · mental distress · the screaming abdabs/habdabs
    antonyms: calmness · self-possession
  • an old-fashioned term for a psychological disorder characterized by conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization) or a change in self-awareness (such as a fugue state or selective amnesia).
• “sob” used to describe Hyde (cry but connotations of uncontrollably, childish)
• Hyde says to Lanyon: “been bound by the most narrow and material views”
• Lanyon: “when that sight has faded from my eyes I ask myself if I believe it” – this shows the denial of the whole self by the Victorians.
• “The creature …was..Hyde, and hunted for…as the murderer of Carew”.
• In all of us there is the ability for good and evil, even in Hyde there is humanity – this murderer is capable of “sobbing”
• Jekyll – “every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future”
• Page 42 – top good quotes. “duplicity”
• Religion heightens the shame and sense of wrong doing
• “I have been doomed to a shipwreck” (ship – metaphor for Jekyll, sea – metaphor for Victorian society)
• “man is not truly one, but truly two”
• “life would be relieved of all that was unbearable”