Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

• ’He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone’ - Utterson drank gin which was seen as a poor drink (upheld reputation)
• ‘with ape-like fury’ - animalistic behavior, links to Darwin & Lombroso’s theories
• ‘particularly small and particularly wicked-looking’ - description of Hyde
• ‘the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity‘ - Hyde is really difficult to get hold of
• ‘The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city‘ - motif of fog (personification)
• ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I blind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.’ - doctor - Jekyll is probably going to do it again - like a drug to Jekyll
• marked upon the cover ‘not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll‘ - Themes: mystery, secrecy
• ‘like some disconsolate prisoner’ - reflects Jekyll‘s state of mind, feeling isolated & trapped by himself
• ‘but there it is; quite in your way: a murderer’s autograph‘ - Hyde’s handwriting is bad - Links to Jekyll’s evil side - dual nature
• ‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also‘ - Jekyll is very regretful
• ‘the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man’ - believes evil is in all of us
• ‘like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll!’ - Lanyon is traumatised & cannot believe what he’s seeing
• ‘committed to a profound duplicity of life’ - Jekyll - he felt he had 2 personalities
• ‘Good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature’ - men are all capable of good vs evil
• ‘the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground’ - Trampled over the child without care or emotion
• ‘He’s an extraordinary looking man’ - Enfield describing there is something wrong with Hyde’s appearance
• ‘Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath‘ - Animalistic behaviour - supports Lombroso's theory
• ‘Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours‘ - motif of fog - represents mystery & secrecy
• ‘man is not truly one, but truly two’ - theme: duality, we are all good & bad
• ‘I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate’ - Felt he could avoid consequences as Hyde