Setting quotes

Cards (13)

  • Leicester Square (where Jekyll lives) is next door to Soho (which is where Hyde lives). To that extent they are two sides of the same part of London - links to duality.
  • Utterson visits Soho after the killing of Carew (chap 2). "It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven"
  • "There would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration"
  • The city of Utterson's dreams and nightmares "through wider labyrinths of lamp-lighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming"
  • First description of Jekyll's house: "There was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate [...] one house, however, second from the corner, was still occupied entire; and at the door of this, which wore a great air of wealth and comfort"
  • Jekyll's neighbours are "agents of obscure enterprises"
  • Hyde's part of Jekyll's house: "It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper"
  • Hyde's Soho house: "Hyde had only used a couple of rooms; but these were furnished with luxury and good taste. A closet was filled with wine; the plate was of silver, the napery elegant; a good picture hung upon the walls, a gift (as Utterson supposed) from Henry Jekyll, who was much of a connoisseur"
  • Lanyon's house: "Cavendish Square, the citadel of medicine"
  • Setting for Chap 4: "A fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane [...] was brilliantly lit by the full moon."
  • Murder of Carew: "The body jumped upon the roadway"
  • Man's dual nature is presented as a landscape, "It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature"
  • Jekyll's house was John Hunters house. His research of bodies led to great discoveries that helped others. But he sent people to dig up graves and disturb the dead. There are statues of Hunter in London. What was seen as a sin may later be seen as good and heroic.