DJMH Key Quotes Flashcards
Examples of Quotes that give Hyde animalistic characteristics
- the animal within me, licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little aroused
- ape-like fury
- masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals
- my devil had been long caged, and he came out roaring
J turning to religion at the end
Had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God
Description of Utterson
- rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile
- dusty dreary yet somehow loveable
- mark of a modest man
Quotes referring to satan and Hyde in one go
- My devil had been long caged and he came out roaring
- Satan’s signature upon a face
- was hellish to see [Hyde trample over a girlie]
- a really damnable man
Hyde’s effect on the doctor
“I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him”
Hyde’s metaphysical evil
- strong feeling of deformity
- there is something wrong with his appearance, something downright detestable
- he gives a strong feeling of deformity
- so ugly it bought out the sweat on me like running
Description of Hyde’s house from the outside
- sinister block of building thrust forward
- some place at the end of the world
- [the door was] blistered and distained
- [the door had no] bell neither knocker
- showed no window
Description of Lanyon (appearance)
hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman
Quotes for the ideas of mortification
- hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures
- i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life
- [Utterson was] austere with himself
- [U] drank gin when he was alone to mortify a taste for vintages
When we first meet Hyde, he…
‘trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming to the ground’
Lanyon ops on Jekyll
- became too fanciful for me
- he began to go wrong, wrong in mind
- such unscientific balderdash
Description of London as setting
great field of lamps of a nocturnal city
Utterson’s first encounter with Hyde
- Mr Hyde shrank back with hissing intake of breath
- snarled aloud into a savage laugh
Hyde’s physical appearance
- pale and dwarfish
- something troglodytic
- human juggernaut
- satan’s signature upon a face
Description of Jekyll house
- a square of ancient, handsome houses
- wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged into darkness
Description of Jekyll
- smooth-faced man of fifty
- every mark of capacity and kindness
Jekyll’s appearance when Utterson bought up Hyde
There came a blackness around his eyes
Jekyll in denial
The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.
Setting before the Carew Murder
- a fog rolled over the city
- night was brilliantly lit by the full moon
Sir Danvers Carew appearance
- aged and beautiful gentlemen with white hair
- such an innocent and old-work of kindness of disposition
Hyde’s reaction to Carew asking for direction
he broke out in a great flame of anger
Description of Hyde beating up Carew
- clubbed him to Earth
- bones were audibly shattered
- with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows
Description of London after Carew murder
- a great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven
- like a district in some city in a nightmare
Description of hydes house keeper
“She had an evil face , smoothed by hypocrisy but her manners were excellent “
Description of Jekyll’s lab
- dingy, windowless structure
- dusty windows barred with iron
Description of Jekyll after Carew murder
looking deadly sick
Promise Jekyll made to Utterson regarding Hyde
- I stg I will never set eyes on him again
- I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world
Description of London after Utterson leaves J’s house (C5)
- The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city
- the lamp glimmered like carbuncles
Lanyon’s appearance near to death
- he had his death warrant legibly across his face
- the rosy man had grown pale, his flesh had fallen away
Effect of duality on Lanyon
- deep seated terror of the mind
- Lanyon declared himself a doomed man
- I have had a shock and I shall never recover
Lanyon’s ops on Jekyll after the secret is revealed
I want to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll… one who I regard as dead
Jekyll in the start of c7
- like some disconsolate prisoner
- the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair
Enfield and Utterson’s reaction to seeing a glimpse of the transformation
- froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below
- They were both pale and there was an answering horror in their eyes
- they turned and left the court without a word
What do Enfield and Utterson say after almost seeing the transformation?
God forgive us! God forgive us
C8 Setting
- It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March..
- a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her
Poole’s unease for his master’s condish
- It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
- you felt it in your marrow - kind of cold and thin
C8: Jekyll is described to be…
- Weeping like a woman or a lost soul…
- cry out like a rat
Lanyon’s curiosity
- disgustful curiosity
- The contents increased my wonder
Jekyll capitalising off of Lanyon’s Hippocratic Oath to get him to help him
Lanyon, you remember your vows: what follows is under the seal of our profession.
Lanyon’s reaction to the transformation
- a marked sinking of the pulse
- a certain icy pang along my blood
- my soul sicked at it
- O God!… O God!
- my mind submerged in terror
- My life is shaken to its roots
Duality in C10
- all human beings are commingled out of good and evil
- my devil had been long caged and he came out roaring
- I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life
- man is not truly one but truly two
Jekyll describing Hyde
- Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference
- That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred
- I felt younger, lighter, happier in body
J + Religion
- and from these agonies of death and birth I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend
- I am the chief of sinners. I am the chief of sufferers also
- I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of which lies at the root of religion
- I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down on me
Describe the transformation into Hyde
A grinding in the bones, a deadly nausea
Ending of the Book
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
