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Mind Map by Niamh Webster, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Niamh Webster
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Jekyll and Hyde
Chapter 4
- Hyde murders Danvers Carew
- Chapter begins nearly a
year later
- Maid's account of Carew's murder is written
like a police statement
- Distances the reader from the
event itself
- Also limited to the maid's perspective -
she's "romantically given" so it's hard to
know how much we can believe
- The maid's description is a shocking change
of tone in her initially peaceful account
- She faints - shows how
shocking the murder was
- She faints - shows how
shocking the murder was
- Distances the reader from the
event itself
- Maid's account of Carew's murder is written
like a police statement
- Old man appears polite and full of "old-world kindness"
- Emphasises his innocence and
shows how evil Hyde is - attacks
Carew for no reason
- Emphasises his innocence and
shows how evil Hyde is - attacks
Carew for no reason
- Hyde is described as
trampling Carew
with "ape-like fury"
- Animalistic description shows how
he's primal and savage
- Animalistic description shows how
he's primal and savage
- A lot of gruesome
detail is given
- Hyde "clubbed" Carew, "trampling" him and
giving him a "storm of blows" so that his
body "jumped upon the roadway"
- Stevenson appeals to the reader's sense of hearing and sight
by describing how Carew's bones were "audibly" shattered
- Makes the attack more horrific and vivid as you imagine
how terrible it would be to hear someone's bones breaking
- Makes the attack more horrific and vivid as you imagine
how terrible it would be to hear someone's bones breaking
- Hyde "clubbed" Carew, "trampling" him and
giving him a "storm of blows" so that his
body "jumped upon the roadway"
- Hyde leaves Carew
"incredibly mangled" on
the street - it's a brutal
and shocking crime
- Chapter begins nearly a
year later
- Utterson and the police search for Hyde
- Policeman's reaction to the indentification of
Carew as the victim shows everyone has a double
nature
- Initially concerned but soon "professional ambition" to turn
the situation to his advantage takes over
- Stevenson shows that
hypocrisy is widespread in
Victorian Society
- Stevenson shows that
hypocrisy is widespread in
Victorian Society
- Initially concerned but soon "professional ambition" to turn
the situation to his advantage takes over
- Utterson leads the Police to Hyde's house
- Hyde lives down a "dingy street" in a
"dismal quarter of Soho"
- Utterson sees it as "some city in
a nightmare" - it's a place of
darkness and swirling fog -
makes him feel uneasy
- Contrasts with the comfortable house and
respectable area that Jekyll lives in
- Contrasts with the comfortable house and
respectable area that Jekyll lives in
- Soho was an area
associated with
poverty and
immorality
- Located in the richer, more
respectable West End of London
- Reflects the relationship between Jekyll and
Hyde - the immoral Hyde is located within
the respectable Jekyll
- Located in the richer, more
respectable West End of London
- Hyde lives down a "dingy street" in a
"dismal quarter of Soho"
- Policeman's reaction to the indentification of
Carew as the victim shows everyone has a double
nature
- Dual Nature of Man
- Stevenson uses the minor character of Hyde's landlady to
develop the idea that it's human nature to conceal our faults
- She has an "evil face, smoothed with hypocrisy"
but "her manners were excellent" - which shows
that she's putting on a front of respectability
- She has an "evil face, smoothed with hypocrisy"
but "her manners were excellent" - which shows
that she's putting on a front of respectability
- Stevenson uses the minor character of Hyde's landlady to
develop the idea that it's human nature to conceal our faults
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