jekyll and hyde

• A quote about Dr Jekyll that shows how corrupted he is by evil.

  "the large handsome face of Dr Jekyll GREW PALE to the very lips and there came about a BLACKNESS ABOUT HIS EYES"
• KEY QUOTES ABOUT REPRESSION WHEN TALKING ABOUT UTTERSON

  "he was austere with himself" "to mortify a taste for vintages" "he enjoyed the theatre but had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years"
• QUOTES ABOUT PHYSIOGNOMY WHEN TALKING ABOUT JEKYLL


  "A large, smoothfaced man of fifty" to "pale and had a blackness about the eyes"
• QUOTATIONS ABOUT DUALITY


  "man is not truly one but truly two" "the primitive duality of man"
• QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE USE OF SETTING

  "a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven" "a fog rolled over the city" "blackmail house" "laboratory" "by the fireplace" "A great air of wealth of comfort"
• QUOTATIONS ABOUT EVIL 


  "ape like fury" " strong feeling of deformed" " like some dammed juggernaut" "snarled" "hissing intake of breath" "trampled calmly"
• WHY WOULD STEVENSON PRESENT HYDE AS THIS EVIL AND DEFORMED CHARACTER? 


  Stevenson wants to prove that indulging in this primitive and evil side of us only leads humanity downwards.
• KEY CONTEXT THEMES

  • science vs religion and the consequences of being too bolted to either side
  • duality and the victorian gentleman being a facade
• Mr Enfield: 'this of course is the first description we get of hide and it's from Mr Enfield'
• Enfield's description of Hyde


  Suggests there is a good deal of Christianity in it
• The word 'damned' suggests Hyde is going to hell
• Juggernaut is a corruption of Jagannath, the god of the universe in Hinduism</b>
• Stevenson using Juggernaut


  Suggests there is another way besides Christianity
• Christian prejudice informs the view of Hyde
• Hyde just trampled on the girl, he didn't stop and trample on her
• Enfield is also out getting up to no good, just like Hyde
• There isn't really a difference between Enfield and Hyde at this stage
• Enfield's words are the only evidence that Hyde is evil
• Enfield wanting to kill Hyde


  Suggests the idea of science, that there is something unnatural about Hyde
• Stevenson is giving his Christian audience what they want, but subtly undermining it
• Enfield: 'I saw that sore bones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him'
• Enfield and the doctor are far more evil characters than Hyde at this stage
• Enfield and the doctor wanting to kill Hyde


  Suggests hypocrisy, as they have moral Christian standards but are full of murderous desires
• Enfield and the doctor are going to screw Hyde out of £100
• Hyde being 'troglodytic'


  Challenges the Christian audience's views on evolution and the origin story of the Bible
• Utterson: 'the curtains of the bed plucked apart'
• This suggests Utterson is repressing his own homosexuality or jealousy of Jekyll's relationship with Hyde
• The Victorian era outlawed homosexuality, so this novel is partly an attack on that
• Utterson's dream about Jekyll and Hyde


  Suggests Hyde may be blackmailing Jekyll over a homosexual affair
• Utterson: 'I read Satan's signature upon a face'
• Utterson is imagining that Hyde has Satan's signature on his face, but none of the characters can actually describe what Hyde looks like
• The Christian audience's view of Hyde


  Suggests he is seen as supernaturally evil, when in reality there may be nothing very evil about him initially
• The novel explores the dual nature of man, with everyone having good and evil within them
• Hyde being a product of science


  Challenges the Christian audience's views and fears about science leading to evil
• Hyde: 'he hailed down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered'
• This is a Gothic, exaggerated description of Hyde's violence
• Hyde's violence


  Suggests the Victorian fear of science and evolution leading to a more primitive, violent form of mankind
• apart from later punching a match seller who is female he punches on her nose once and then goes away hardly the act of the most evil person in the world
• it definitely suggests that yes he is a killer here but why on Earth has he killed sir danvers carew and then why does he not kill anyone else
• the fear of science here is given us evolution Hyde is like an earlier form of mankind ape-like and this eight like is associated with violence and fury