Dr Jekkyl and Mr Hyde Quotes Flashcards
‘large handsome face’
presents Jekyll as the quintessential victorian gentleman who has everything in his life under control
Dr Jekyll
‘gave one of his pleasant dinner parties to five or six intelligent cronies’
implies that Jekyll is a social character who is well established within the upper echelons of Victorian society
Dr Jekyll
‘weeping like a woman or a lost soul’
implies that Jekyll is actually a very weak character who can’t control his desires and is eventually overcome by them
Dr Jekyll
‘he began to go wrong in the mind’
demonstrates that Jekyll’s revolutionary science is in fact very unpopular and gets him into trouble.
Dr Jekyll
‘ape-like fury’
simile that conveys Hyde as an animalistic creature who has little to no control over his actions and acts in a primitive nature
Mr Hyde
‘haunting sense of deformity’
contrasts significantly with Dr Jekyll and also links to ideas of reverse evolution and the effect this has on his appearance and behaviours
Mr Hyde
‘savage laugh’
denotes that Hyde takes pleasure in the suffering of other people and that he acts using the primal part of his brain
Mr Hyde
‘like Satan’
conveys that Hyde is simply pure evil but it also links to the idea that we all have the capapability within us for good or bad.
Mr Hyde
