Who is mr Hyde

chapter ½ | ‘hellish to see’

‘Like satan’

‘Trampled calmly, left her screaming’

Sin/ evil/ morality

• references to religion are heavy in this time period - the severity of his appearance is compared to the worst thing in a persons life

• Hell is related to torment- his face is eternal torment and punishment,

• Aggressive actions - immoral / wrong - sinful connecting to religion

chapter ½ | ‘hardly human... something troglodytic’

‘Hissing’ + ‘snarled ‘

Troglodytic / devolution/animalistic

• Troglodytic- primitive and ancient, refers to devolution as it refers to a person as in the past

• Verbs are animalistic showing signs of devolution of a human

• Could be viewed as a predatory action as a defensive mechanism to scare and manipulate

chapter ½ | ‘one look so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running’

• ‘ something displeasing ‘

Physiognomy

His face is so unpleasant to the human eye it constantly cause intense reactions - running is high intensity causes increase in heart rate and breathing- HYDE’S face alone cause that effect to others

Something about him and is appearance is disturbing but people are unable to place what it is - could be due to many factors ? Or just one main factor e.g his eyes

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