JEKYLL & HYDE – FORM

Form is important because it indicates writer's intentions, characters, and key

themes. In this case, how Stevenson creates his novel therefore looking at
different perspectives he uses.

1. GRAPHOLOGY
2. GOTHIC GENRE
 Pathetic fallacy
 Ruined or grotesque buildings
 Religious ideas
 Sensibility
 Excess and extremity
 Supernatural
 Imagery of decay
 Horror and terror
 Isolation and loneliness
 Blurring of sanity/insanity
To what extent
 Sex and sexuality
can J&H be
 Multiple narrators
considered a
 Crime, lawlessness and abuse
gothic novella?
 Absolute power
 The Satanic/arcane

 atmosphere is pervaded by sense of mystery, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, doom

(1st reading don’t know who Hyde is ⸫ retarding narrative/ heterodiegetic narrative)
 Setting of gothic story heightens victim’s sense of hopeless isolation- victim imprisoned,
trapped or isolated ( Jekyll called “prisoner” in own home)
 Victimiser associated with evil, immense supernatural powers. Victim is helpless (Hyde
described as “juggernaut” when he hurts little girl and use of visceral imagery when he killed
old man Sir Danvers Carew emphasis his feral impulses)
 Victim entranced/fascinated by power of victimiser (Jekyll and Utterson entranced by Hyde)

3. EPISTOLARY/TESTIMONY (last 2 chapters and chapter 6)

4. NARRATIVE POINTS OF VIEW

 last 2 chapters 1st person
 Heterodiegetic narration (3rd person)
E.g. chapter 3 opens with heterodiegetic narration on Utterson
Retarding the narrative – all forms parts of genres of gothic text
  Internal and external focus

JEKYLL & HYDE –

STRUCTURE

1. HYPOTACTIC/PERIODIC SENTENCING
 Subordinate clause upon subordinate clause eventually
reconciled by main clause at the end i.e. periodic sentencing.
( SC gives importance to extra detail, creates suspense causes
reader to be concentrated on outcome or can be persuasive as
it could be reasons for something before final point is made )
(Most of the time emphasis is on MC- the outcome)
2. PARATACTIC SENTENCING
 Simple sentences one after another i.e. Main clauses
Parataxis is like this. It’s good plain English
3. POLYSYNDETONS & ASYNDENTONS
 P : using lots of conjunctions
 A: no conjunctions just commas
4. TRICOLONS
5. REPETITION
6. JUXTAPOSITION
7. ALLITERATION
8. SOUNDS
 Sibilance
 Plosive
 Assonance
 Consonance