Chapter 2 Key Quotations Flashcards
Hell-related imagery to describe Hyde:
“definite presentment of a fiend”
Positive, healthy, and happy presentation of Lanyon:
“a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
Theme of strong friendship (between Lanyon and Utterson):
“the geniality […] was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling”
Theme of conflicting scientific viewpoints:
- “Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind”
- “Such unscientific balderdash”
- “Would have estranged Damon and Pythias”
Utterson’s frightening dream (gothic):
- “nocturnal city” (darkness)
- “labyrinths of lamp-lighted city”
- “it had no face” (unknown)
Hyde’s evil:
“without bowels of mercy”
Utterson’s curiosity:
“If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek.”
Ominous setting of London (gothic):
“the low growl of London from all round”
Animalistic imagery to describe Hyde (Dehumanising):
- “Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
- “snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
Hyde’s short temper:
“with a flush of anger”
Hyde’s disturbing effect on others:
Utterson was the “picture of disquietude”
Hyde’s appearance (physiognomy):
- “pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity”
- “murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” (perhaps duality)
Utterson dehumanises Hyde (atavism and theory of evolution):
“The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?”
Utterson breaks away from his rationality (corrupting effect of Hyde on others):
- “unknown disgust, loathing and fear”
- “if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend” (physiognomy and Hell-related imagery)
Front of Jekyll’s house:
“a great air of wealth and comfort”
