key quotes

• duality - jekyll

  "man is not truly one but truly two"

  Sigmund Freud’s later concept of the id, ego, and superego:

  • Id: Primal desires (Hyde).
  • Ego: Rational self that mediates (Jekyll).
  • Superego: Moral conscience.
  • The statement implies that humans are in a constant struggle to balance these conflicting forces.
• “trampled calmly” - hyde [said by enfield]
• "it wasn't like a man, it was like some damned juggernaut"
• “If I ever read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
• ‘something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable’
• “Snarled a savage laugh”  
• “Some place at the end of the world” “about three o’clock of a black winter” [enfield]
• “Trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.”
• “She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent” --> hyde's maid
• “First fog of the season” “embattled vapours”

  “great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over 

  heaven”

  “muddy ways and slatternly passengers”

  “mournful reinvasion of darkness”
• “He gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation”
• “Murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
• Carew:

  “very pretty manner of politeness”

  “innocent and old-world kindness”

  “high position of the victim”
• “Ill-contained impatience”

  “Great flame of anger”

  “ape-like fury”
• “It was the horror of being hyde that racked me”
• “I bring the unhappy life of Henry Jekyll to an end”
• “I was still so sure of my own strength; and I had committed no crime”
• “With an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner”
• “A grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit.”
• “He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind,” (Lanyon about Jekyll)
• “A murderer’s autograph”.
• “like some damned Juggernaut”
• “pale and dwarfish”

  “haunting sense of deformity”
• “If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek”
• “Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed”

  “backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary”

  “somehow lovable”.
• Lanyon


  “He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”

  “Lanyon declared himself a doomed man”

  “my soul sickened at it...I must die”

  “O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting”
• Quotes about the violence and crime in the novella

  “Little man trampled calmly over the child’s body...it was hellish to see”

  “bones were audibly shattered”

  “I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow”

  “clubbed him to the earth”
• Quotes about the theme of Duality

  “The two hands are in many points identical” (said by Guest)

  “If it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” (said by Poole)

  “Man is not truly one but truly two”.

  “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body..”

  “I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde,”

  “my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”

  “all human beings are commingled out of good and evil”

  “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers”

  “disconsolate prisoner”
• Quotes on the themes of science versus religion

  “The compound changed to a dark purple...watery green”

  “To be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine”.

  “Pious work...annotated with startling blasphemies”

  “I let my brother go to Cain’s heresy”

  “hid them with a sense of shame”.