Objectives: How does an author create mood? And how does the mood support the theme?
Turned in Personal Response. If you were absent, and didn't turn it in via email (or early) consider it late. You have one week to turn it in with a late pass.
1- Prompt- Why did Jekyll create Mr. Hyde? Answer- To become free. What is ironic about this? He ended up being more imprisoned.
2- Reviewed definition of mood. Watched clip of "Coraline" while students wrote down as many things they could that helped set the mood. Examples: weather, color, black cat, isolation, etc.
3- We read Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover." Students underlined any word that helped create the mood.
4- How does Stevenson create the mood for "Jekyll and Hyde" and how does the mood support the theme?
- The Fog in the opening scene. The fog functions as a mask- it makes things unclear- it makes it difficult to tell what is right in front of your face. This relates to the theme "duality of man" or "duality of society" because they mask their true intentions.
- Things happen at night- setting- night time is when people typically act out their "evil" side. This adds to the theme in that most people want to hide in the dark and not let their "evil" side show.
- Physical description of Hyde- He's hard to describe. He has an indescribable face. Evil is also hard to describe...Hyde is the representation of evil, so Hyde's character supports the theme of "duality of man."
- Isolation- feeling of eeriness. A feeling of being alone. This ties back to the original reason Jekyll created Hyde. He felt alone in his duplicity of life- When in reality, if the Victorians would haven't talked about it, he would have known that all men have good and evil within them.
Homework: None- Just know there is a test on Wednesday to finish up our "Jekyll and Hyde" unit. Have a lovely long weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Jaynes
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