The Door In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Throughout the entire book the reader is constantly confronted with hidden meaning and symbols that add depth to the story. One of the major symbols is the glass castle itself, and how it represents the unrealistic and unstable life of the Walls

Hyde this happens during then night. The night also makes the story seem more eerie because things can hide in the dark. It also gives an impression that doors lock away the secrets people try to hide. When the maid sees the murder at night it’s as if the window is a shield and you can see them but they can’t see you. It’s keeping you interested because of the horror aspect of the windows and doors/doorways but it could also keep you interested because every time a doorway or window was mentioned you’d know that something eerie is going to soon happen. For example the door that Dr. Jekyll uses (during the day) is very pleasant and nice.

The gate is an important symbol throughout the novel and carries great significance. The author chooses this to be a symbol because Janie, the main character, passes through a literal gate in the story whenever her life is about to change. There are three instances where Janie passes through a gate and soon after, her life takes a turn, either beneficial or upsetting. "She thought awhile and decided that her

The Glass Castle is full of symbolism. One of the symbolisms that struck out to me was the skedaddle. The skedaddle was a symbolic symbol of the characters in the book trying to run away from their own truth within themselves. Even when Janet Walls was three years old, in the hospital, her dad wanted her to hurry up and leave from the hospital because he did not want the truth behind her burns to surface. Once they arrive home from escaping the hospital, Janet starts cooking again, even though that is what ended her up in the hospital in the first place. And another example of the skedaddle was when the family moved to a different town but the dad feels like the FBI is after him so they “skedaddle” again so they don’t get into trouble.

The door is extremely thin (used for protection against insects and weather) suggesting that the boundary between Connie and Arnold is very thin, fragile and could be broken down easily. After Connie’s family went out for a barbeque, Arnold Friend shows up at her porch, they talk for a while but she starts freaking out because she notices that he is odd and much older. She starts shaking and “ rushed forward to lock the door” (p.55). She wants to lock and close the door to stay safe inside the house to call the police but Arnold Friend reminds her that the screen door provides no physical protection when he says, “Why lock it… it’s just a screen door” (55). Arnold is not afraid to break the screen door and go in if he has to but he is trying to lure her out her house into his arms. Connie tried to stay safe by going back in her house instead of in front of the door but Arnold pushed her back to the screen door as if he has a magnet. He tries to seduce her by talking with a rhythm as if he is singing a song that she knows and that song is about “a girl rushing into her boyfriend's arms and coming home again” (55). This is exactly what Arnold has been trying to tell Connie, he wants to take her for a very long ride as if he is the boyfriend and he is waiting for her to jump right into his arms so they could

The seven rooms in the house also conveyed stages in life ending with death. These rooms were set up from east to west. This meaning that the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west, and death comes in the darkness. "In this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet--a deep blood color." The guest's avoided this room because it was a sign of death.

The windows show the outside world, showing you what lies beyond the four walls which you are stuck between. Many cases throughout the book result in a woman’s character being trapped and not being able to leave the house they are in. The women then result in looking out the windows only to dream about leaving. “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow” (11). The main character’s grandmother was trapped in her own house, her husband had stripped her of her freedom and was enable to leave. Windows are tricky, they are sweet like honey showing you the outside world, but in the book the character, then realizes they cannot venture past them so they

and "gates that lock". At the top of the stairs is a gate that keeps

Solitude has made the speaker so uneasy that he is even "uncertain" about the "rustling of each purple curtain" (line 13).  Anyone who has spent time alone in a house at night knows this feeling.  His heart pounds as the curtains move, and now that some unknown force is knocking on the door he is even more terrified.  He tries to calm himself down by repeating that it is only "some late visiter" at his door and "nothing more" (lines 17-18).  The speaker has to gather all his courage just to investigate and greet his guest.  When he greets nothing but a dark space beyond the door, his mind races to conjure frightening "dreams no mortal dared to dream before" (line 26).  In his fright, he might have imagined it to have been a ghost, or someone with ill intent lurking in the shadows and waiting to catch him in surprise.  According to Edgar Poe in "The Philosophy of Composition," the character even possessed "the half-fancy that it was the spirit of his dead mistress that knocked" (1677).  This is seen as the speaker calls out the name of his beloved Lenore (lines 28-29).  That is the only positive possibility considered, and others, such as a caring and concerned friend, are not considered at all.  His isolation and depression have left him with nothing but negative feelings in every aspect.  These feelings include paranoia - the feeling that something or someone is out to bring one harm, as seen in the thoughts swirling in the

The author used different elements of the figurative language to describe the character’s impression of the mansion. The images in the passage include, the two stories high main hallway, the size of the entrance doors, the broad stained-glass panel, a knight in dark armor, a lady who is tied to a tree and doesn’t have any clothes on, the French doors at the back of the hall, a wide sweep of emerald grass, a white garage, a slim dark young chauffeur in shiny black leggings, a maroon Packard convertible, some carefully trimmed decorative trees, a greenhouse with a domed roof, a solid line of foothills, a tile-paved free staircase, a gallery with wrought-iron railing. The author used a simile when he compared the entrance doors’ size to that

The themes contained within Mary Shelley’s most famous work seem varied and indeed revolutionary for their time. Concepts such as the consequences of the creation of a race of artificial and intelligent life and the resultant moral quandaries found the bulk of the work’s narrative and symbolic focus. The plot follows the birth, growth, and embitterment of a new life form made in the image of man. Because there exist countless worthy themes, symbols, and other evocative images found within the work, it seems almost asinine to point out the ubiquitous yet mundane role played by windows and doors within the work. On a physical level, these doors and windows act as transitionary barriers, capable of being either opened or closed, thus either catalyzing

The doors are symbolic of imagination, and he is saying to unlock one's imagination. This

In “A door… You are willing to shut” by Stephen King, he uses the term “shutting the door” literally and metaphorically. His way of writing and shutting the door is how he escapes reality and gets away from what is presently going on around him. Growing up in a world susceptible to distraction, keeping focused and remaining in control is most important. Two aspects I understood from this article are the literal shutting an actual door or metaphorically shutting the door in your mind. This term can be used in a metaphoric sense just as well as a literal sense when accomplishing the tasks at hand.

The house symbolically acts as a place of isolation, illustrating the way that if humans no longer have communication with other people it results into madness. The symbol of the house is significant, the house is an isolated place especially near the windows. As the unnamed narrator arrives at the house a servant takes his horse, and he enters the Gothic archway of the hall. As the narrator is lead to Roderick's studio by the servant, he notices the familiar yet gloomy atmosphere. He is put in a room where he describes as large and lofty and "the windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from

We also see walls/doors as a symbol that is ensuring the isolation of the characters. Each character will be analyzed through the text first, and then I will analyze using other critics’ perspective on the issue.