Jekyll and Hyde

• Dismal quarter of Soho - Setting
• The red baize door - Symbolises metaphorical barrier between Jekyll and his reputation and Hyde with his actions
• Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think, a box of lights. He smote her in the face, and she fled
• I have been safe of all man’s respect - Jekyll
• Sea of liberty - Jekyll describes experiencing Hyde as an opportunity
• No gentlemen wishes to avoid a scene - Hyde (Irony)
• Use of ”scientific experiments” to separate good and evil shows he seeks assistance to improve “Jekyll” and escape with “Hyde” without repercussions- Jekyll
• I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man - Jekyll needs assistance on understanding the reconciling and conflicting aspects of human nature
• “I incline to Cain’s heresy” Utterson - Cain (Bad brother, Abel good brother) states I am not my brothers keeper after murdering him to god, therefore meaning that Utterson wishes not to involve himself with others’ personal lives.
• “The street shone out in contrast to it’s dingy neighbourhood” Reveals duality between Victorian society and the hypocrisy with their obsession with respectability
• “I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him“ Utterson - emphasises Hyde’s evil nature as “sawbones“ (a doctor) sees injury often and is therefore more sensitive to the suffering of others. A desire to kill him reveals an emphasis of cruelness of Hyde’s actions
• “There is something wrong with his appearence, something displeasing, something downright detestable“ utterson - Hyde’s appearence
• “Unscientific Balderdash“ - Lanyon believes that Jekyll is ill in the mind for his stupidity with science beliefs
• “The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” -Jekyll’s overconfidence eventually becomes his hamartia
• “Man is not truly one, but truly two” Jekyll
• “I knew myself to be more wicked…. Tenfold more wicked“ Jekyll understands his morally wrongdoings and describes how he felt deceiving and playing the role of Hyde
• Freud's psychoanalytic theory, with its emphasis on the unconscious mind, has fundamentally altered our perception of human behavior. He proposed that our actions are not always governed by our conscious thoughts but are often driven by unconscious desires and experiences.