Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

• 'Satan's signature upon a face' 


  hyde is the embodiment of evil, claimed by the devil.
• 'disgust, loathing and fear' 


  tricolon of harsh, abstract nouns, intense hatred
• 'trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming' 


  no compassion for the girl, evokes sympathy. oxymoron
• 'impression of deformity' 


  element of ambiguity allows reader to create their own image
• 'hardly human' 'troglodytic' 'snarled aloud into a savage laugh' 'ape like fury'


  animalistic, Darwin, scares readers
• 'hide-bound pedant' 


  Jekyll's disbelief Lanyon sticking with 'ethical' science, jekyll trapped himself, secrecy
• 'my devil had long been caged he came out roaring' 


  religion, personifies dark desires, epitome of evil, repression of desires+hyde
• 'Hyde sat heavy on his memory'


  metaphor, alliteration, shows physical impact of Utterson's curiosity
• 'great flame of anger' 


  metaphor- Hyde cannot control his patience
• 'Mr Hyde has a key' 


  metaphor for hyde having a key to Jekyll's inner workings
• 'Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' 


  Freuds id
• 'if anyone knows it will be Lanyon' Utterson


  Lanyon is omniscient, likening him to God whereas Jekyll is the devil - duality
• 'hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman' (about Lanyon)
• 'Henry Jekyll become too fanciful for me' 


  shows Lanyon's traditional mindset- not open minded about scientific exploration, exaggerated Jekyll's radical ways
• 'such unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias' 


  Lanyon doesn't agree with Jekyll's experiments
• 'death warrant written legibly upon his face' 


  metaphor foreshadows his death, shows his shock

  1st time reader would be unaware why but 2nd time readers understand why
• 'I wish to see no more of Dr Jekyll.. I am quite done with that person... one whom I regard as dead' 


  formal title- distances himself away from his friend

  shocking to 1st time reader

  Lanyon knows truth and cannot speak freely about it
• 'I sometimes think that if we knew all, we should be glad to get away' 


  makes death seem attractive
• 'my soul sickened' 


  sibilance, he would have done the same as Jekyll
• 'my life is shaken to its roots' 


  shock, losing himself due to truth
• 'rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile' 


  reserved and unaffected by emotion, serious
• 'If he be Mr Hyde' he had thought 'I shall be Mr Seek' 


  theme of opposites, suspenseful, mystery, curiosity, persistant
• 'austere with himself' 


  represses his desires
• 'Mr Utterson began to haunt the door' 


  determined
• 'God forgive us, God forgive us' 


  repetition, religion, Utterson and Enfield feel they have failed
• 'a singularly strong, almost an inordinate curiosity' 


  curious, determined, persistent to find Hyde
• 'I concealed my pleasures' 


  secrecy, pleasures indulged in secret

  Victorian society
• 'profound duplicity' 


  duality, even before hyde his life was split in two
• 'If I am the chief of sinners, then I am the chief of sufferers also' 


  feeling sorry for himself- a confession that shows no regret

  jekyll wants lanyon to be silent about why they fell out

  repetition shows duality
• 'Dr jekyll looking deadly sick' 


  unlike himself, jekyll is slowly turning into hyde and losing control
• 'the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde' 


  addiction- denial, full of confidence, adament

  worried about reputation

  thinks he is in control
• 'a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty' 


  opposes the description of hyde, jekyll is powerful wealthy respectable

  jekyll is typical victorian gentleman

  appearances can be deceiving
• 'like some disconsolate prisoner' 


  simile- state of imprisonment, not physical but metaphorical- he is a prisoner, jail and jailer all at once
• 'expression of abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below' 


  horror

  2nd time reader knows that he suddenly transforms into hyde again
• 'fogged city moon'


  Gothic genre - mysterious setting - dark deserted London streets
• 'pure evil' 'my devil'


  Gothic Genre - Evil character or devil - how hyde is described
• 'three o'clock of a black winter' 


  Gothic genre - nighttime events - trampling of the girl
• 'mystic' and 'transcendental' 


  Gothic genre - the supernatural - Jekyll's experiments, hyde isn't part of this world
• 'left her screaming on the ground' 


  Gothic genre - innocent victims - hyde tramples innocent girl (she represents women and children)
• 'trampling his victim under foot'


  Gothic genre - innocent victims - Carew represents the elderly