Jekyll and Hyde quotes

• “Dr Jekyll looking deathly sick”


  Adjective- shows Jekyll and Hyde’s relationship is closer than initially thought- he has vastly changed by killing Danvas Carew
• “Concealed my pleasures“


  -hiding his true desires away

  -ashamed that he enjoys being evil -> links to Jekyll feeling guilty for Hyde’s actions.
• “Smile was struck out of his face”


  -Metaphor

  -horrific imagery

  -“struck”- sudden -> links to ‘roaring’ as it gives the impression that something has taken over him.
• “My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring“


  -metaphor

  -devil- dark side of Jekyll which he tries to repress however it comes out in Mr Hyde.

  -‘caged’ links to prisoner

  -’roaring’ violent imagery to show how powerful Hyde is.
• “Man is not truly one but truly two”


  -repetition/alliteration

  -emphasizes His realization that a man has a dual nature

  -goes agains victorian beliefs

  -links to Darwin and evolution.
• “A large, well made, smooth faced man”


  -adjectives

  -toes to duality

  -presents him as: highly civilized, highly educated and well respected.

  -readers respect him so when we find out he is Hyde we are shocked.
• “Like some disconsolate prisoner”


  -simile

  -readers wonder what is chaining him to his house

  -why is he not free

  -why can’t he leave

  -seems like nothing can help him

  -has locked himself inside physically

  -mentally trapped.
• “There came a blackness about his eyes“


  -dark imagery/sinister

  -gives readers quick snapshots of a darker side to jekyll

  -‘eyes’ symbolize a window to his soul.
• “I am quite done with him”


  -declarative

  -contrast showing Jekyll believes he is different from Hyde

  -he can’t separate the 2 as the book continues.