• “cursed with my duality”
• Hyde: “recently chained down…growled”
• “secret sinner” – sibilance of s , shows the problem with Victorian society
• When explaining what led to his final transformation as Hyde, and subsequent death, Jekyll uses the word choice of “fall” repeatedly – this is associated with Adam and Eve and their fall from grace and expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
• “That child of Hell [Hyde]” – oxymoron
• Self destruction
• “unhappy Henry Jekyll” – this is a story of human unhappiness- why? Society/ lack of self acceptance, is it both?