quotes

• Utterson QUOTES

  if he be mr hyde, i shall be mr seek

  o my poor old harry jekyll

  austere with himself

  where he was liked he was well liked

  wondering, almost with envy at...their misdeeds
• Jekyll QUOTES

  my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

  too fanciful scientific heresies

  a load of genial respectability

  wrong, wrong in the mind

  you must suffer me to go my own dark way

  like some disconsolate prisoner

  man is not truly one but truly two
• Duality QUOTES

  man is not truly one but truly two

  i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life

  my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
• Horror and gothic QUOTES

  labyrinths of lamp lighted city

  wild cold seasonable night of march
• door QUOTES

  J: reflects character, respect and success

  his door wears 'a great air of wealth and comfort' 'well made, smooth faced man'

  H: symbol of insidious intrigue, point of access, barrier to U

  ' sinister block of building' 'blistered and distained' 'impression of deformity'
• Friendship QUOTES

  'became too fanciful for me' L says about J
• Religion vs science QUOTES

  'satans signature upon a face'

  'scientific heresies'

  'unscientific balderdash'
• context

  • Victorian era
  • freud id is the instinctual part of the brain, stevenson says we shouldnt repress these feelings
  • Charles Darwin theory made society think what they were capable of. Victorians believed they were superior to other organisms. Thoery of evolution became a hated subject. hyde represents primal, animal origin of modern, civilised man. attack on religion
• hyde QUOTES

  'something dipleasing ; something downright detestable

  satans signature upon a face

  really like satan

  hellish to see

  trampled calmly

  bones were audibly shattered

  i am naturally helpless

  hes a metaphor for victorian fear of scientific advancement 'ape like fury' 'ape like tricks'