10 Key Quotes for Jekyll & Hyde

• Enfield: 'He must be deformed somewhere he gives a strong feeling of deformity'
• Deformity


  The real deformity is in his mind, not physical
• Dr. Lanyon: 'He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind'
• Dr. Lanyon


  A reliable witness, one of the country's most respected doctors
• Dr. Jekyll: 'The moment I choose I can be rid of Mr. Hyde'
• Dr. Jekyll


  Has something of a sly cast, meaning he is cunning and deceitful
• Description of Hyde's attack: 'With ape-like fury he was trampling his victim underfoot and hailing down a storm of blows'
• Hyde's attack


  Suggests an outburst of primitive emotions, contrasting with the civilized side of human nature represented by Dr. Jekyll
• Dr. Jekyll: 'I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again'
• Dr. Jekyll's letter


  The writing appears similar to Dr. Jekyll's, suggesting the letter may have been forged
• Dr. Lanyon: 'I am quite done with that person I beg that you will spare me any allusion to whom I regard as dead'
• Dr. Lanyon's reaction


  He is so disgusted with Dr. Jekyll that he regards him as good as dead
• Description of Dr. Jekyll: 'Taking the air with an infinite sadness of men like some disconsolate prisoner'
• Dr. Jekyll's appearance


  Indicates his character or mood, he is filled with unending sadness like a disconsolate prisoner
• Dr. Jekyll's letter: 'When this shall fall into your hands I shall have disappeared'
• Dr. Jekyll's disappearance


  Utterson finds that Hyde is dead, but Dr. Jekyll has disappeared, leaving Utterson to wonder if he has been killed or escaped
• Description of Hyde transforming back into Dr. Jekyll: 'He put the glass to his lips, his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'
• Hyde's transformation


  Describes the moment that Hyde stood in front of Lanyon and drank the potion that turned him back into Dr. Jekyll, with his body dissolving and reforming
• Dr. Jekyll's letter: 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse'
• Dr. Jekyll's discovery


  He had discovered that his good and evil sides cannot be kept separate, and one side or the other will be dominant