J+H Quotes

• 'I begin to fear it is disgrace' 2 Utterson regarding Jekyll's will. Fears that he is being blackmailed and shows that he is a good lawyer and friend
• 'sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle' 6 Utterson's knowledge about the situation is portrayed by light imagery, may also relate to his mood
• 'The hall... was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high' 8 Utterson being closer to the truth, meaning the lights are brighter - light imagery to suggest knowledge.
• 'why you and me sir' 8 Poole and Utterson discuss who will attempt to save Jekyll and break down the laboratory door and their loyalty is shown in that they will do it themselves.
• 'If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit' 8 Utterson to Poole regarding Jekyll, this shows his loyalty to his friend as even after he believe Jekyll is gone, he wants to save Jekyll's reputation
• 'drank gin when he was alone' 1 Utterson conceals his guilty pleasures to maintain his good reputation
• 'he was austere with himself' 1 Utterson is strict with himself to maintain a good reputation and lead a 'good' life
• 'though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years' 1 Utterson has a tremendous amount of self-control to maintain his status as a moral Victorian gentleman
• 'you and I must be the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has' 2 Utterson speaking to Lanyon, shows that he is loyal to his friends
• 'dry divinity' 2 Utterson reads dull religious books before bed because he believes it is a good thing to do, not because he enjoys it.
• 'gratefully to bed' 2 Utterson is happy to go to bed in the evenings, potentially because the day is so exhausting from maintaining Victorian expectations of a gentleman
• 'the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men' 1 Utterson is a very loyal man, who does not leave his friends in times of hardship but attempts to help them become better people.
• 'we are three very old friends Lanyon, we shall not live to make others' 6 Utterson talking about how loyalty is key in friendships, especially as they are growing old.
• 'embarrassed in discourse' 1 Utterson has difficulties communicating his point, especially around complicated or sensitive issues, but still cares a tremendous amount
• 'lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable' 1 Utterson has flaws, but is still beloved by many due to his strengths.
• 'unscientific balderdash' 2 Lanyon describing Jekyll's approach to science. It contrasts Lanyon's traditional and safe approach by being experimental, risky and controversial.
• 'that hide-bound pedant' 3 Jekyll describes Lanyon's disciplined and traditional study of science. He is irritated at the lack of enthusiasm for scientific experimentation. Rivalry such as Jekyll and Lanyon's is very typical of the time.
• 'a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman' 2 Lanyon's character
• 'boisterous and decided manner' 2 Lanyon's personality
• 'genuine feeling' 2 Lanyon is not performative but has genuine great love for his friends.
• 'Jekyll is ill too' 6 Utterson attempts to reconcile Lanyon and Jekyll's friendship
• 'I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll' 6 Lanyon is completely done with Jekyll at this point for unexplained reasons
• 'Lanyon my life, my honour, my reason, are all at your mercy' 9 Jekyll in his letter to Lanyon, showing that despite their differences, Jekyll trusts him completely.
• 'you are one of my oldest friends' 9 Jekyll is attempting to reconcile with Lanyon to save himself.
• 'like a man restored from death, there stood Henry Jekyll' 9 Lanyon is killed from the shock of Jekyll's transformation which is so shocking it is seen as just as plausible as a resurrection.
• 'confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility' 9 Jekyll uses common idiom to express how important Lanyon’s role is in his plan.
• 'he cherished for Mr Utterson a sincere and warm affection' 3 Jekyll values his friendship with Utterson very much.
• 'I am done with him in this world' 5 Jekyll attempting to escape from being Hyde also.
• 'I concealed my pleasures' 10 Jekyll has concealed his pleasures due to societal expectations and it has caused him to create this alter ego to satisfy his desires.
• ‘my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’ 10 Jekyll talking about how suppressing his evil side has made it more powerful
• ‘I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life’ 10 Jekyll talking about how attempting to seperate his two sides caused him to lead two different lives
• ‘that man is not truly one but truly two’ 10 Jekyll potentially talking about how the Victorian expectation is to be one completely good man, instead of having a good and evil side
• ‘double dealer‘ 10 Jekyll talking about the duplicity of man. The word dealer implies that he is involved in drugs and criminality.
• ‘these polar twins should be continuously struggling’ 10 Jekyll talking about how the good and evil sides of man are constantly in conflict.
• ‘It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me’ 10 Jekyll talking about why he hid away, not scared of being arrested, but horrified at the idea of hurting more people as Hyde
• ‘the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below’ 7 Narrator about Jekyll’s transformation
• ‘face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about the eyes’ 3 Jekyll fears Hyde or Utterson’s knowledge of Hyde. Blackness may reference dark being a metaphor for evil
• ‘this was the home of Henry Jekyll’s favourite; of a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling’ 4 Hyde’s home. Disbelief as his home is in Soho, the poorest area of London, but his home is very wealthy on the inside and he is due to gain a large inheritance if Jekyll dissappears. May cause the reader to wonder why Hyde chooses to live here.
• ‘held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice’ 5 cold hand and changed voice signifies extreme sickness and potentially death.
• ‘Dr Jekyll looking deadly sick’ 5 Jekyll has taken a turn for the worse after his ‘friend’ Hyde has been accused of murder. This is suspicious.