Jekyll and hyde

• Utterson C10 - "man is not one, but truly two"


  Duality- good and evil within each man. highlights the hypocrisy of the Victorian man. suggests that the pleasures they have to repress make them into a completely different man.
• Utterson- "austere with himself"


  Utterson is the perfect Victorian gentleman. he suppresses his pleasures in order to keep up his reputation.
• Utterson- "if he shall be mr hyde, i shall be mr seek"


  Utterson is determined to ruin Hyde's reputation as that is the most important thing to a Victorian gentleman. Hyde and seek- childish game. Homophone of Hyde's name (to conceal, hide). Hiding secrets, evil within all of us.
• Lanyon- "like a man restored from death— there stood Henry Jekyll."


  his letter to Utterson. The reference to death suggests a Jesus like character. Jesus resurrected and so did Jekyll
• "I concealed my pleasures... I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life."-jekyll


  jekylls letter to utterson. Jekyll is saying that he tried to conform to the way of society, but he was already dual within himself.
• "All human beings... are commingled out of good and evil."-Jekyll


  Id, ego and superego. evil exists within all of us, only some chose to reveal it.
• "It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "


  Perfect gentleman- avoid gossip. References to 'two
• "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."


  Suggests that all humans have some evil within1 them, yet some, like Hyde, choose to reveal it.
• C4- Old woman "She had an evil face, but is was smoothed by hypocrisy"


  Both of these characteristics are hugely negative - she is nasty and has double standards - but then we are told 'but she had excellent manners'. So now we know that despite the fact she is bad it is forgiven because she can behave correctly which hides her bad faults.
• "Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference."


  Father- more mature. Son, childish. Hyde is also smaller than Jekyll so this backs it up.
• "Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."


  theme of concealment.
• "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." -Utterson


  evil- not respectable. Suggests Utterson cuts out anyone who could damage his reputation. he had no influence/ association with him.

  
  

  bible story of cain and abel-
• "O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!" -Lanyon


  blasphemy. Suggests the birth of evolution/ new science. lanyon is therefore using blasphemy to imply how shocked he feels about the theory being true.
• Hyde's description "ape-like fury"


  animal imagery. monkey-evolution
• Hyde- "Shrank back with a hiss"

  
  

  "snarles with a savage laugh"


  referenced to a snake. Garden of Eden/ biblical references suggest he tempts people into evil.
• Lanyon- "bond of common interest"


  how differing views on science and religion split Utterson and Jekyll apart. Utterson didn't want to ruin his reputation
• Jekyll- "I am very low Utterson"
• "Dr jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness to his eye"


  imagery of light and dark. suggests good and evil.
• Lanyon "compose yourself"


  wants to maintain a good reputation
• Hyde c1 "extraordinary- looking man"


  These failures of articulation create an impression of Hyde as an uncanny figure, someone whose deformity is mysterious, perceptible only with some sort of sixth sense for which no vocabulary exists. It is almost as if language itself fails when it tries to come to grips with Hyde; he is beyond words, just as he is beyond morality and conscience. As a supernatural creation, he does not quite belong in the world; correspondingly, he evades the conceptual faculties of normal human beings.

  
  

  repetion of somewhere in this extract- cant put it into words/ dissociating it from himself
• C9 Hyde "staring with injected eyes"


  this quote is when hyde transforms into jekyll. suggests his horrific appearance and ghastly features.
• "The thought of separating the elements"


  Perhaps he did not possess an equally balanced good half and evil half, as he thought. The events of the novel imply that the dark side (Hyde) is far stronger than the rest of Jekyll—so strong that, once sent free, this side takes him over completely.
• Hyde C2 "murderous mixture of timidity and boldness"


  alliteration. timid suggests hyde is repressed within jekyll.
• Jekyll C10 "my devil had long been caged, he came out roaring"


  animal imagery. suggests the failure to repress his evil.
• Utterson C1 "Rugged Countenance"
• Hyde C1 "trampled calmly"
• Lanyon C6 "Lanyon declared himself a doomed man"
• C4 Utterson taking the police to hyde's house after carews murder "the dismal quarter of soho... and i shall never recover"
• C5 Jekyll's lab "Door covered with red baize"


  a type of felt that was used to cover doors beginning in the 18th century. He notes that baize doors separated servants' quarters from the main house of a mansion in Great Britain and therefore symbolized class separation. It is argued that the novel's door represents the separation between the polite and the base.
• C6 following the 'disappearance' of Hyde- "came out of seclusion... the doctor was at peace"
• C7 Utterson "God forgive us, God forgive us"
• C10 Jekyll "sold a slave to my original evil"
• C10 Jekyll "I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man"
• Poole- colloquial language

  "Same bigness"
• C3 Jekyll describing Lanyon "an ignorant, blatant pedant"