JH

• what era

  victorian
• characters

  utterson: friends with jekyll and lanyon, lawyer

  jekyll: kind, well-respected and intelligent scientist--> erratic and alienated , doctor

  hyde:

  lanyon: doctor

  
  

  poole: jekylls butler

  enfield: uttersons friend

  carew: mp murdered by hyde
• Hyde quotes

  'something displeasing; something downright detestable'

  'if he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr seek' U

  J to U 'committed to a profound duplicity of life'

  'satans signature upon a face'

  'really like satan'

  'hellish to see'

  'trampled calmly'

  'one look, so ugly that it bought out the sweat on me like running'
• jekyll quotes

  'he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind'

  'you must suffer me to go my own dark way'

  'like some disconsolate prisoner'
• utterson quotes

  'if he be mr hyde, i shall be mr seek'

  'god forgive us! god forgive us!'

  'rugged countenance' 'never lightened by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed'
• lanyon quotes

  'death warrant written legibly upon his face'

  'declared himself a doomed man'

  'my soul sickened at it...i must die'
• horror/fear in setting quotes


  'the figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night'

  It was a wild, cold seasonable night of March”

  “fog slept above the drowned city' 'fog rolled over'
• violence and crime quotes

  'trampled calmly' 'hellish to see'

  'bones were audibly shatterered'

  “I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow”

  “clubbed him to the earth”

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• duality quotes

  If it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” (said by Poole)

  “Man is not truly one but truly two”.

  “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body..”

  my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
• science v religion quotes

  “I let my brother go to Cain’s heresy”

  “hid them with a sense of shame”
• jekyll


  medical doctor with interest in supernatural, he carries out experiments and makes a potion that transforms him into his alter ego.

  • the potion separates the good and bad aspects of himself and allows him to switch between 2 identities. hyde indulges in secret pleasures but jekyll lives respectfully
  • he makes a will leaving everything to hyde if hr dies or disappears
• jekyll 2

  • vows to not use potion again, after hydes behaviour worsens, hes too weak to stick to this, murders carew. he changes into hyde spontaneously without taking potion and asks lanyon to fetch chemicals (reveals secret to L)
  • becomes too afraid to go out in case he switches
  • he runs short of a chemical he needs to make his potion and struggles to find more
  • he uses the last of the chemical and writes his story explaining everything to utterson before he changes to hyde for last time
• Jekyll role in novella

  central protagonist
• summary

  1. U is walking with E when they see a shabby door. E says he once saw a strangelly repellent man called Mr Hyde trample a child and then go through that door to get money to pay off the girls fam
  2. U looks after J will, which leaves all possessions to Hyde. Disturbed, U visits L who hasnt heard of Hyde nd says hes fallen out with J. U waits near the door until he manages to see and speak to Hyde. He finds him unpleasant as E sais
• summary 2

  3. U asks J about H and the will. J refuses to talk about either, saying the will cant be changed and he has an interest in Hyde that he wont disuss

  4. a year later, Hyde murders Carew in the street. Police find a letter addresses to U on the body. U identifies body and leads police to Hydes home but hes not there. Looking in his room they find evidence of a hurried departure and half a walking stick used to kill C.
• summary 3

  5. U visits jekyll and finds him sick and distraught. he assures U hell never see H again and shows him a letter apparently from H saying he can escape. U shows the letter to mr guest, whos a handwriting expert. he compares it with a note from jekyll and the two samples are v similar

  6.U dines with J and L, but a few days later, J wont see him. U visits L but find him very sick, blaming a terrible shock he has had. L refuses to discuss J. A few days later, L dies and leaves a letter for U to read if J dies/disappears.
• summary 4

  7.U and E walking and U sees J at his window. J says hes too sick to come out. they agree to talk through the window, but a look of horror crosses jekylls face and he slams the window shut

  8. Poole begs U to go with him to J lab: he fears J has been murdered. They break down the door and find H body on the floor, he killed himself by taking poison. They find a new will made out to benefit U, and a long statement from jekyll, but no sign of J himself
• Lanyons letter

  L received a strange note from J begging him to fetch a drawer of chemicals from his lab and give it to a man who would visit him at midnight
• What happened when H visited L

  1. H mixed the chemicals to make a potion

  2. H drank the potion

  3. H transformed into J
• Jekyll's statement

  • He made a potion which freed the negative part of himself to take its pleasures without incriminating him
  • This part grew in strength and indulged in more violent and unpleasant acts until the murder of Carew
  • He stopped using the potion but began to change spontaneously and had to use potion to go back
  • After taking final dose, he wrote statement for U
• jekylls door

  -way to access his character and represents his character. Jekyll is well respected and a successful doctor and door reflects this

  his door 'w(ears) a great air of wealth and comfort' and U says 'the pleasantest room in London'

  Like his door J is a 'well made, smooth faced man' and 'every mark of capacity and kindness'
• hydes door

  symbol of insidious intrigue, point of access, barrier to utterson

  'sinister block of building' 'marks of prolonged and sordid negligence' 'blistered and distained'

  H : 'impression of deformity'
• Utterson good friend quotes

  good friend: 'O my poor old Harry Jekyll'- empathetic, not judgey, nickname

  J 'this is very good of you, this is downright good of you, and I cannot find words to thank you in' - appreciative

  'I shall consider it my duty to break the door' - duty, resposibility, trustworthy, caring
• Utterson gentleman quotes

  'austere with himself' strict, self restraint, strong minded

  'where he was liked, he was well liked' typical v.g, raising reputation, moral, respectable. extended metaphor for v.g in microcosm of victorian society
• utterson hypocrite quotes

  'lawyer'

  'wondering, almost with envy at...their misdeeds' jealous of people who can break law/cause chaos eg fight. humanises U, more relatable as character - duality
• jekyll well respected quotes

  'in the public eye with a load of genial respectability'
• jekyll unconventional quotes

  L 'too fanicful' - too out there, mad, scientific

  L 'what he called my scientific heresies' serious accusation at the time, against christianity
• jekyll conflicted quotes

  'man is not truly one but truly two'

  'I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my doub;e existence'
• jekyll out of control qu

  'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring'

  'these were moments when i feared for my life' victim
• hyde quotes

  animalistic: 'snarled aloud into a savage laugh' 'ape like fury' 'ape like tricks'

  violent: 'trampled calmly' 'clubbed him to the earth' 'bones were audibly shattered'

  victim: 'i am naturally helpless' - addicted to violent acts, no conscience

  evil:'really like satan' 'satans signature upon a face'
• hyde as a metaphor for

  lower class 'dismal quarter of soho'

  victorian fear of scientific advancement 'ape like'
• lanyon quotes

  'rosy man had grown pale ; his flesh had fallen away' physical deterioration as he discovers J secret. rosy associated with vibrant, health which juxtaposes pale with deathly connotations

  'I wish to god I had never set eyes on him!' disgusted by J scientific methods and dire consequences they bring

  'O God!' 'O God!' horror of hyde, amplifies grotesque and unnatural nature
• duality quotes

  'man is not truly one but truly two'

  'i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life'

  doors

  science/religion: 'unscientific balderdash' 'scientific heresies'
• frienship

  'became too fanciful for me'
• horror or gothic qu

  'labyrinths of lamp lighted city'

  'like a district of some city in a nightmare'

  'wild, cold seasonable night'
• relig sci

  U tells J about H 'satans signature upon a face'

  'scientific heresies' L disagrees with J scientific recklessness, U rejects science alltogether
• context

  • freud id - instinctual part of brain. stevenson says we shouldnt repress these feelings
  • typical victorian gentleman- at time men expected to repress any feelings that werent respectable
  • charles darwin - made society wonder what humans were capable of