"air of intivitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen"
The enviroment is personified and compared using a simile to being warm, friendly and welcoming
"the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest"
The street juxtaposes the run-down, gloomy neighbourhood shining like a light
The simile helps the juxtaposition with providing the street as warm and inviting compared to the hostile neighbourhood
The "fire" can be presented as a foreshadowing to Hyde's reveal and later actions in Chapter 4
"freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger"
The street is more cared for and paid attention to without letting the beauty decay
The cheerfulness is something that is notable (gaiety of note)
Appealing to a person
"a certain sinister block of building thrust forward it's gable on the street"
Sinster - evil
Thrust being a verb is an aggressive action, being forceful instead of the street where it shines
"showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall"
No windows makes the house unwelcoming
Blind forehead personifies as having no features, particularly the windows giving a sense of no living inhabinants inside
Discoloured wall gives the effect of the house not being cared for which contrasts the "frehsly painted shutters" of the other street
"bore in every feature, marks of prolonged and sordid negligence"
Showed long term signs of "dishonourable" neglect, treated as scrap, no attempt to repair these marks
"The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker was blistered and distained"
Unwelcoming
TAhe door's material is peeling off and discoloured, showing signs of neglect
"Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation"
Homeless people resided in the recess showing the neglect was done for a significantly longer period of time
Children hung out on the shop
The marks made by the schoolboy had not been repaired
Generation emphaises the period of time
"no one had appeared to drive away these random vistors or repair their ravages"
The house is abandoned and neglected
Chapter 2
"the face of the fogged city moon"
Personifies the moon using pathetic fallacy of the scene's mood
Fog represents the concealed nature about the case and the mystery of Hyde, finding more about him
"It was a fine dry night; frost in the air, the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow"
Pathetic fallacy gives the effect of mystery
Oxymoron - light and shadow
"low growl of London"
Zoomorphism
"small sounds carried far; domestic sounds"
The sibilance of small sounds gives an eerie effect
"he gave a number of a street in Soho"
Soho is a unpleasant side of London full of criminality and poverty
"[Jekyll's house] which were a great air of wealth and comfort though it was now plunged in darkness"
Duality - great air of wealth representing Jekyll and the darkness representing Hyde
Foreshadows Jekyll's predicament
Chapter 4
"the first fog of the season"
Patheic fallacy
Reflects on the Great Smog of London
Happens directly after the description of Carew's murder
The smog being man-made makes it unnatural
"a great chocolated-coloured pall lowered over heaven"
A pall is a cloth spread over a coffin
Links to Carew's murder
Lowered over heaven links to evil
"the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours"
Use of war imagery on the weather with pathetic fallacy
"[Utterson] beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight"
Enhances the mystery and obscurity of the plot
"glow of rich, lurid brown like the light of some strange conflagration"
The fog was unnatural
Enhanced by "lurid" and "strange"
Simile comparing it to Hell fires
Chapter 5
"[Utterson] crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students, now lying gaunt and silent"
Juxtaposes each other, full of life, now desolate and neglected
Shows Jekyll's reputation
"a door covered with red baize"
The door to Jekyll's cabinet is covered in red which connotes to danger
Foreshadows Hyde's occupation of the cabinet
"The fog still slept on the wing of above the drowned city"
Personifies the fog as "sleeping", being a daily occurence as humans sleep
Drowned implies the city is concealed and hidden, giving a mysterious atmosphere
"the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; through the muffle and smother"
The fog is so thick and dense that the lamps appear as unpleasant red swollen spots (carbuncles = cluster of boils)
"the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of the hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London"
The colours are bright passing through the stained glass windows contrasting the gloomy fog outside
The glow of the hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards invokes a feeling of warmth and security
To disperse the fogs of London depicts there is hope
Chapter 7
"the by-street; and that when they came infront of the door"
Cyclical return to the opening of the novella, back to the door
"The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight"
Creates an eerie atmosphere
twilight - obscurity
Chapter 8
"it was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture"
Wild an adjective refers to animalistic features which can suggest to Hyde's reveal in Jekyll's cabinet later
Eerie atmosphere
Personification of the moon, the moon on "her back" paints vulnerability
"flecked the blood into the face"
Image of horror and chilling, contributes to the eerie atmosphere
"a crushing anticipation of calamity"
Foreshadowing and building tension to a calamity
A calamity is a major event, this relates to the grand reveal of whos in the cabinet and Hyde killing himself
"the thins trees... were lashing themselves along the railing"