LO: to learn what antithesis is, and how to spot it, and how to describe the EFFECT it has on the reader…
Write down words in Dr Jekyll that are important OPPOSITES
| Thesis | Antithesis | Effect on reader? What does it make you think? Feel? What questions do they make you ask? |
| Good | Evil | Stevenson forces us to think about moral issues when he uses these words |
| Tall | Small | The effect for me is very disturbing, it forces us to think about Hyde’s deformity |
| Dr Jekyll | Mr Hyde | These two antithetical names provoke a lot of thoughts in the reader. They force you think: how can Jekyll take a potion to become Hyde? Why does he want to be Hyde? Is Hyde really Jekyll? Are they one person or two? They have become “antithetical words” in the language, we talk about Jekyll/Hyde personalities. |
| Human
Ascetic behaviour Abstinence
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Animal
Greediness Indulgence/sexual promiscuousness |
The main EFFECT of antithesis for me in the novel is that it creates the ILLUSION that Hyde and Jekyll are different people when they are not. We are constantly being told that Jekyll is ‘respectable’ and that Hyde is ‘disreputable’; that Hyde is violent and that Jekyll is peaceable.
