Chapter 4 Quotes: The Carew murder case

Ironically, her mood of languid revery is broken, for as she gazes down beneath her window, “romantically given”

emphasises that she is engrossed in romance and fantasy. She recognizes the "small" figure of Mr. Hyde, a man who had once visited her master and for whom she had “conceived a dislike”, this highlights that Hyde is detestable and it doesn’t take long for those around him to have strong repugnant feelings towards him.

“ill

contained impatience”

“Broke out in a great flame of anger”

The metaphor delineates his uncontrollable desire to torment and physically cause harm to others. It can not be contained and this is associated with passion and unleashing his acrimony on the “beautiful gentleman with white hair”.

“Brandishing the cane”

This has connotations to power that he is superior and possess the authority to take life away. He is flourishing his weapon and this conveys a sense of gratification and reinforces his sadistic behaviour.

“Like a madman”

reinforces his troglodytic behaviour.

“Broke out”

this accentuates how he can not contain his urges and is breaking out of what is socially acceptable even though the laws of society confine our inner darkness.

“Clubbed him to the earth”

Reverting back to a primordial type and has connotations of a caveman.

“Ape

like fury”

“Hailing down a storm of blows”

This dictates the perpetual brutality Hyde is inflicting on the man. The weather is expressing the extremity of his passion/fury.

“Body jumped upon the roadway”

The graphic imagery lingers throughout to the point that the brute force he is exhibiting here made the body jump upon the roadway.

“Maid fainted”

It is melodramatic, the extremity of the crime she has just witnessed. It is juxtaposed with the fantasy world she indulges in and the reality she actually witnessed.

“Incredibly mangled”

The victim is so disfigured to the point he is beyond recognition and emphasises the brutality of the attack.

“The first fog of the season”

this insinuates obscured vision and it enshrouds Hyde, the constant concealment of Hyde’s deviant behaviour. Jekyll is hiding the inner desire to behave like Hyde. Foggy weather and strange light is a sign of the obscure and masked nature of the events, but they are also constantly transforming, creating a new landscape with each glance, making the atmosphere unpredictable.

“It would be dark like the back

end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich”

“ mournful reinvasion of darkness”

The adjective “mournful” has connotations to funeral imagery and constructs a melancholic atmosphere.

“Some city of nightmare”

A perverted distorted imagery of the city.The obscuring weather embodies the secrecy and repression that is haunting these streets. The way Hyde’s house appears “this was Mr Hyde’s” from the rest gives a fated, ominous sense to Utterson’s journey. Given Hyde's ability to inspire hatred in others, it is unclear if the old

“The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye”

Stevenson uses pathetic fallacy in order to convey a sombre mood and “gloomiest dye” reinforces the funereal imagery that lingers. This links to the light and dark imagery representing good and evil.

“A flash of odious joy appeared on the woman’s face”

This old lady is an example of what Jekyll will later describe as his theory of the duality of man, that everyone has both good and evil in them. The oxymoron used “odious joy” insinuates she is both joyful and devious in appearance, reminding us of the immediate effect of Hyde’s evil look. And this dubious welcome is again contrasted with the pleasant atmosphere of Hyde’s rooms.

“Were furnished with luxury and good taste”

Utterson’s depraved preconception of Hyde contrasts with the elegant furniture in the house. Utterson dissociates Hyde with cultured and refinement, Utterson sees Hyde as primitive and Jekyll is perceived as a cultivated and genteel man. Utterson's perception between Jekyll and Hyde is exceedingly diverse. However in reality Stevenson portrays Jekyll and Hyde as close than most would have perceived.

“Haunting sense of unexpressed deformity”

The constant repetition of “deformity” insinuates how no one can solidly identify him and reinforces the fact that he is an elusive figure.