Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Question	Answer
"He began to go wrong in the mind"	The repetition of the adjective "wrong" shows us how determined Lanyon is to show Utterson that Jekyll was going crazy. He needed everyone to know that Jekyll had crazy ideas that could go wrong. Which they did.
"The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and have came a blackness about his eyes"	The juxtaposition (contrast) between the adjective 'handsome' and 'blackness' show the transformation between the gentlemen Jekyll and the monster of Hyde.
"I awake as Hyde"	Clearly Jekyll has not control over the transformation as he woke up as other side of his personality. However, the fact he is conscious of being Hyde says that he knows what he is doing and they are not two separate personalities but one person acting in two different ways.
"You must suffer me to go my own dark way"	The pronoun 'you' and the verb 'suffer' show the impact of Jekyll's actions on his friends. If Jekyll loses the reputation, so do his friends and a loss of reputation was a crushing blow to a Victorian gentlemen and the worst thing that could happen.
"Like some disconsolate prisoner"	Stevenson infers through the noun 'prisoner' that Jekyll is trapped by his secret - the fact that he is Hyde - and nothing can make him feel better.

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