Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

    Cards (61)

    • '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