Jekyll Hyde Key Quotations the man trampled calmly

Jekyll & Hyde Key Quotations

“the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground” §Where’s it from? §What does it mean? §What can I say about it?

Chapter 1 – The Story of the Door ‘Trampled’ is an aggressive verb that suggests great force, strength and dominance, which shows how Hyde utterly and completely overpowered her. Stevenson believed in the Duality of Man, that all men had a repressed ‘bad side’ – so by describing Hyde this way he could be emphasising how dangerous too much repression can be. The adverb ‘calmly’ means an almost emotionless response – which implies Hyde has no remorse for what he did. The lack of conscience displayed for such a horrific act would appall most readers – reinforced by the verb ‘left’, which suggests abandoning her to her fate. “the man trampled calmly ‘Calmly’ also connotes taking over an action – suggesting over the child's body and time Hyde is savouring the moment may even have done it left her screaming on the and before – something further evidenced when he again ground” The juxtaposition of the tramples Carew in Chapter 4. The lack of emotion from Hyde’s response could be especially disturbing to Victorian readers, who would commonly repress emotions – which could have been just as Stevenson intended calm response to the violent action and the emotive image of the child screaming in pain or fear would be especially unsettling because of the natural human response to protect the young The aggression of ‘trampled’ and the opposite connotations of ‘calmly’ imply an oxymoron, which could imply not just that the act was unnatural, but also Hyde himself, making him seem more evil creature than ordinary man.

“with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot” §Where’s it from? §What does it mean? §What can I say about it?

Chapter 4 – The Carew Murder Case ‘Fury’ is also a purely negative and violent emotion, emphasizing how Hyde is pure evil, making him even more disturbing. Hyde’s second ferocious attack described that this time results in murder to show the increasingly uncontrolled evil and violence of Hyde The simile ‘ape-like’ suggests Hyde is more like an animal than human, making him seem as if acting on instinct, so unpredictable and more prone to violent outbursts without thinking of consequences, therefore more frightening. Apes also will battle for dominance, so this could foreshadow Hyde gradually becoming dominant over Jekyll just like how easily he dominates Carew “with ape-like fury, he The abstract noun ‘fury’ suggests an incredibly was trampling his ‘ape-like’ could also suggest he is less powerful uncontrollable ‘evolved’ which could represent how rage, thereby increasing the victim under foot” Jekyll did not allow his evil side to develop sense of horror at the out-of proportion reaction of Hyde The idea of Hyde being The 2 nd use of the violent verb less evolved would have also fascinated the reader ‘trampling’ shows how Hyde is in light of Darwin’s recent continuing to act deliberately ‘Origin of Species – an violently by linking to the incident with the girl in chapter idea which recurs 1, so suggesting Hyde is getting elsewhere such as when Utterson describes him as even more violent and out of ‘Troglodytic’. control because he repressed it for so long The idea of Hyde being a physical manifestation of the repressed evil side of Jekyll’s personality would have been both unsettling and fascinating to the Victorian readers, who would commonly repress their secret desires as reputation was incredibly important to a Victorian gentleman – something Stevenson showed through his exploration of the ‘Duality of Man’.