Outline and annotations from sunday

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67-68 Carola
22-24 Jonathan
28-29 Chris
9-10 Alex
69-70 Tom
85-87 Michal
39-41 Masa
42-43 Christine
51-52 Fabio
48-49 Boyan
56-57 Larina
43-44 Olivia

Hw due 8th

Chapter 5 Essay

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is a Gothic Fiction which is a genre of literature that uses fiction, horror and Romanticism all together. Gothic fiction has elements that we can also see in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde such as an atmoshphere, suspense and mystery, supernatural occurrences and the use of gothic vocabulary. In this extract in chapter 5 Mr Utterson has recieved a letter signed by Dr Jekyll. Mr Utterson And Mr Guest conclude that the letter signed from Mr Hyde and the letter from Dr Jekyll is the same handwriting therefore it must of been written by the same person. In this essay i will analyse this extract and explain how stevenson used literary devises to create and convey different meaning. Also i will try to explain how the devices stevenson uses contribute to the novella, by giving it a sinister atmospher and giving a deeper insight into characters.

 Pathetic Fallacy, attributing human feelings to inhuman things and  creating a environment that reflects emotion or a characters personality, is used in this extract to create a certain mood and idea. One example is " the fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city" firstly the idea that the city is drowned sets a mood/atmosphere that the city has something bad in it which is causing it to be drowned. Also connotes that the city is quite a  dark, dull  and gloomy place to be. The idea that the fog is sleeping means that the fog is not moving away. Fog is a symbol of Dr Jekyll becoming overwhelmed by Mr Hyde in this book, so the fact that it is sleeping (not moving) refers to 

Mr Hyde as the fog, who is still waiting to overwhelm Dr Jekyll once again. Another example of pathetic fallacy in this extract is "the lights glimmered", the word glimmered connotes dim, weak and unsteady light, and that only small amount of light can fill the city. 

Motifs in this extract are used such as " letter", "door" , "house", "lamps", "handwritin" and "windows".  The words "letter" and "handwriting" are relevent in this extrat because the chapter is about the letters from Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll and all about why the handwritingsare the same on both letters. This whole questioning of the letters creates a suspensful atmosphere as we do not know at that moment what the outcome will be. Also gothic is driven by symbolic imagery like the motif above so the motifs reallt create the atmosphere and setting.

The phrase " a bottle of particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundation of his house" that we read about in this extract is about Mr Utterson retrieving a bottle of good wine from "the foundations of the house". In order for wine to be good and to stay "good" it has to be neglected " left unsunned" to remain healthy. This is similar to Dr Jekyll that in order to stay in his "good" character he has to neglect and keep Mr Hyde hidden inside himself and away. The idea of neglecting wine to keep it good creates a dark atmosphere because to neglect something or someone is to show no care or thought for it.

Stevenson uses words with dual meanings throughout the novella, one word that he used in this etract is " carbuncles". This can mean a severe absess filled with bacteria or a bright red gem the use of this word brings another negative image of the city because it has a idea that it is being infected like a carbuncle.

To conclude Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of " The strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" uses a variety of literary devises to create moods, atmosphere and to suggest ideas. Without the use of several literary devices the story would be plain with no deeper insight or meanings or way to describe what is occuring in the novella.

 

Chapter 5 Annotation Hw

Annotations for Extract 4 ( Chapter 5)

Annotate.
Outline what you would write about this text.
consider, narrative, atmosphere, imagery, setting, diction, characterization

Key: Pathetic fallacy,Symbols,Themes, Imagery, Narrative context, Metaphors,Motifs, Diction contrast


The news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed. Plainly the letter had come by the laboratory door; possibly, indeed, it had been written in the cabinet; and if that were so, it must be differently judged, and handled with the more caution. The newsboys, as he went, were crying themselves hoarse along the footways: "Special edition. Shocking murder of an M. P." That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make;and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice. It was not to be had directly; but perhaps, he thought, it might be fished for.


Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house. The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind. But the room was gay with firelight. In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. Insensibly the lawyer melted. There was no man from whom he kept fewer secrets than Mr. Guest; and he was not always sure that he kept as many as he meant. Guest had often been on business to the doctor's; he knew Poole; he could scarce have failed to hear of Mr. Hyde's familiarity about the house; he might draw conclusions: was it not as well, then, that heshould see a letter which put that mystery to rights? and above all since Guest, being a great student and critic of handwriting, would consider the step natural and obliging? The clerk, besides, was a man of counsel; he would scarce read so strange a document without dropping a remark; and by that remark Mr. Utterson might shape his future course.


I am not sure if the words i highlighted for Diction is correct but they are certain words that were written in  that sentence to create an effect so thats why i highlighted them.