Key quotes to know

• O my poor old Henry Jekyll, if I ever read Satans signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend

  • Said by Utterson
  • How Utterson views Hyde
  • Juxtaposition-Utterson refers to him as a “new friend”
  • From the beginning, Utterson suspected something was wrong, but stayed quiet and remained sealed
• I incline to Cains heresy, I let my brother go to the devil in his own way

  • Said by Utterson
  • Cain and Abel= sons of Adam
  • Cain murdered Abel
  • Utterson=Inclined to evil nature
  • Foreshadows text as Utterson watches Jekyll, his brother, decline
  • Juxtaposition as why would Utterson let his brother go to the devil- They ignore each others sins
• I felt younger, lighter, happier in body

  • Triad used- rule of three
  • Jekyll is talking about his transformation from Jekyll to Hyde
  • Hdye symbolises sin/negativity
  • Evil is enticing Jekyll
  • Jekyll is a slave to his dark desires
• All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: And Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil

  • Hyde= slave to evilness
  • Jekyll= slave to Hydes evilness
  • Hyde= Pure evil
• I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin

  • Quote implies duality
  • use of pathetic fallacy at beginning of quote
  • use of metaphor reflects human nature- even though they know it’s bad, they can’t help themselves
• If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also

  • Highlights 19th century texts
  • Implies to not mess with God: creating something to pleasure you will cause pain and despair instead
• With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered

  • “audibly shattered”=auditory imagery
  • ”hailing down a storm of blows”=meteorological metaphor
  • ”ape like fury”= Darwin’s theory of evolution
  • Hyde=un-evolved creature: stuck on timeline of evolution
• The man trampled calmly over the child’s body

  • Oxymoron
  • letting desires run wild
• The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest

  • Shows divide between rich and poor
  • contrast between rich and poor class divide
• I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honor to you that I am done with him in this world

  • Jekyll is promising he will never see Hyde again=lie
  • The quote highlights the lack of control which Jekyll has
  • Jekylls lost control from the beginning
  • Jekyll=slave to his desires=slave to Hyde
  • Beginning of novel: loses control of himself
  • End of novel: lost control of everything
  • Implies not to mess with God as you can’t create life