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19 Cards in this Set
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Give the Context to The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. |
•Stevenson was a sick child and adult, so he was familiar with Medical Practices. •Stevenson was trained in Law. •Victorian London - Crime, Social Expectations, Social Divide, Industrial Revolution. •Physiognomy - Judging a Character through their appearance. •Advances in Science - Darwin’s theory of Evolution. •Religion. •Gothic Literature. |
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Summarise the Character of Jekyll from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•A respected Doctor and friend. •Seemingly prosperous man. •Composite (made up of lots of bits). •Good and Evil in Nature. •Civilized and primitive. •Intrigued by the Duality of Man. •Indulges his darker passions without it becoming known. •Arrogant. •Believes he can reconstruct his own identity in order to break humanity's shared ethical rules and England's social norms. •Well established in the community, and known for his decency and charitable works. •Feels burdened by the dark side of human nature. |
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Summarise the Character of Hyde, from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Primitive. •Full of energy and is more evil than Jekyll's dark side had been. •Unidentifiably disturbing. •Strange and repugnant. •Looks troglodytic (a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character). •Violent and cruel. •Language itself seems to fail around Hyde: he is not a creature who belongs to the rational world, the world of conscious articulation or logical grammar. |
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Summarise the Character of Utterson, from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Deliberately boring – only interesting quality that Stevenson gives him is his willingness to remain friends with someone whose reputation has suffered. •Loyal. •The perfect Victorian Gentleman. •Consistently seeks to preserve order and decorum. •Devotion to reason and common sense. •Depicts Victorian society’s general attempt to maintain the authority of civilization over and against humanity’s darker side •Prefers the suppression or avoidance of revelations to the scandal or chaos that the truth might unleash. |
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Summarise the Character of Lanyon, from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Thematic significance extends beyond his brief appearances. • Dismissive of Jekyll’s experiments: ‘unscientific balderdash’ •Embodiment of rationalism and a proponent of materialist explanations •Functions as a kind of foil for Jekyll. •First to witness to undeniable proof of a metaphysical, physically impossible phenomenon. •Cannot deal with the world that Jekyll’s experiments have revealed. |
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Summarise the Character of Poole, from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Jekyll’s Loyal butler. •Worked for Jekyll for twenty years. •Concern for his master eventually drives him to seek Utterson’s help. |
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Summarise the Character of Enfield, from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Distant cousin and lifelong friend of Utterson. •Formal & Reserved. •Scornful of gossip. |
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Summarise the Character of Mr Guest from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Utterson’s clerk and confidant. •Handwriting Expert. •Provides a key evidence. •A figure of dependability perhaps even more so than Poole because unlike him he is far more removed from the central action of the story. |
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Summarise the Character of Sir Danvers Carew from Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Member of Parliament. •Distinguished gentleman. •Represents the civilized world and polite society. |
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List the Themes in Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Good vs Evil •Repression •Friendship •Appearances (Duality of Man) •Science •Curiosity •Lies and Deceit •Violence |
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Name the Motifs within Jekyll & Hyde. |
•Passageways •Windows •Doors |
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List the Symbols in Jekyll & Hyde. |
•The City •Fog •Light •The Walking Stick/Cane •Jekyll’s House |
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Give Context to MacBeth. |
•King James I - believed in Witches, wrote ‘Daemonologie’ a book about the supernatural. •Divine right of kings. •Witches. •The Holinshead’s Chronicles - was a large, comprehensive description of British history, there is evidence to suggest that Shakespeare based his plays upon this. •Medea - a Character in Greek Mythology. A Character which was without hesitation, had her mind is set on revenge from the very beginning (much like Macbeth). |
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Summarise the Character of Macbeth from Macbeth. |
•Contradictions — ambitious, yet with a conscience •Full of anguish and torment-never enjoys the crown. •Becomes desperate and paranoid by end influenced by Lady Macbeth-he seems weak at first, but grows in evil. |
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Summarise the Character of Lady Macbeth from Macbeth. |
•Ambitious •A strong woman – Jacobean wife? •Knows her husband very well- attacks his manhood and shames him to better him •Empties herself of all human feeling •Singleness of purpose •Full of lies and deceptions •Sang-froid (composure or coolness shown in danger or under trying circumstances.) •Represses guilt and fear •Goes mad at end |
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Summarise the Character of The Witches from Macbeth. |
•Supernatural powers - cause storms; appear and disappear •Know things no mortal can know- Cawdor’s treachery •What are the limits of their powers? •Never lie or order Macbeth to do anything; trick answers. |
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Summarise the Character of King Duncan from Macbeth. |
•Good king and honorable man-”a sainted king” •Gracious, Wise, and Generous (Rewards Loyalty) •There is no justification for his murder •Regicide was a heinous crime in the middle ages because it disrupted the natural order of society and of the nation. • When you kill a king, you strike a blow at the nation. |
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Summarise the Character of Banquo from Macbeth. |
•Man of integrity •Brave in battle yet cautious in his actions •Skeptical of witches •Honest and trusting nature |
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Summarise the Character of MacDuff from Macbeth. |
•Macbeth’s major adversary. •Suspects foul play from the beginning. •not hypocritical. •Mature code hero - reacts to murder of wife and child stoically. |
