Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Flashcards
Jekyll and Hyde key quotes
Utterson is described as having to be ‘austere with himself’ (chapter 1)
Utterson has an ‘envy’ for ‘the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds’ (chapter 1)
Hyde ‘trampled calmly’ over the girl ‘like some damned Juggernaut’ (chapter 1)
Hyde has ‘a strong feeling of deformity’ (chapter 1)
Enfield is the ‘well-known man about town’ and ‘feels strongly about putting questions’ (chapter 1)
Lanyon says that he fell out with Jekyll because of his interest in ‘unscientific balderdash’ (chapter 2)
Upon meeting Mr Utterson, Hyde ‘shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath’ (chapter 2)
Hyde has a ‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’ (chapter 2)
When attacking Carew, Hyde ‘broke out in a great flame of anger’ (chapter 4)
On the way to Hyde’s apartment in Soho, London is described as being ‘in a nightmare’ (chapter 4)
The theatre in Jekyll’s laboratory was once crowded with students but now lies ‘gaunt and silent’ (chapter 5)
After the murder of Carew, Jekyll is ‘much in the open air and he did good’ (chapter 5)
Upon seeing Hyde transform into Jekyll, the ‘rosy man’ Lanyon’s ‘flesh had fallen away’ (chapter 6)
When talking to Utterson from his window, Jekyll’s face changed to ‘abject terror and despair’ (chapter 7)
Poole tells Utterson he has heard the man inside Jekyll’s cabinet ‘weeping’ (chapter 8)
Lanyon describes how Hyde created in him a feeling of ‘disgustful curiosity’ (chapter 9)
Jekyll confesses that even before Hyde, his ‘pleasures were undignified’ (chapter 10)
Jekyll, under the pressures of his dual nature, concludes that ‘man is not truly one but truly two’ (chapter 10)
Jekyll had in Hyde ‘more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference’ (chapter 10)
Jekyll describes his transformation into Hyde fter abstaining from taking the potion for two months as a ‘devil that had been long caged’ and ‘came out roaring’ (chapter 10)
Chapter 1 Story of the Door
-We are introduced to Mr Utterson a well respected man who has a strange interest and perhaps envy of the disreputable and shady people. Most likely because he himself has a great deal of self restraint. He is described in the book as being ‘[I]t was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. He is also described as being ‘“Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable.’ We are introduced to Uttersons friend and distant relative Enfield who he walks with Utterson every Sunday and they walk through a by street Enfield sees the lab door. And tells the story of the trampled girl
Enfield witnesses hyde trampling over a girl; the bystanders blackmail him and offers up 100 pounds to keep them quiet
-Uttereson knows that this door is part of Jekyll’s property
Chapter 2 The search for Mr Hyde
Utterson goes home and looks at a will that belongs to his friend Mr Jekyll the will has a worrying line in it “in the event of the death or disappearance of Jekyll, all his possessions are to go to Mr Edward Hyde.” Utterson goes to visit his friend Dr Lanyon he hasn’t seen Jekyll in 10 years and calls his discoveries “unscientific balderdash” Utterson goes to visit Jekyll, he is not there.
Utterson goes over Dr Jekyll’s will and remembers the suspicious clause about Jekyll’s death or disappearance as well as Mr Hyde being the side benefactor.
Visits Lanyon, who has no idea who Hyde is and doesn’t talk to Jekyll anymore
Utterson waits outside the lab door at all hours of the day in the hope of meeting Hyde
Hyde appears and Utterson strikes up conversation, Utterson tries to find out how Hyde knows Jekyll, but Hyde is evasive.
Hyde gives Utterson his address.
Chapter 3 Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
Utterson goes to Jekyll’s party.
Jekyll tells Utterson that he can be rid of Hyde anytime he wants but won’t tell him how he knows him.
Jekyll hosts a dinner party - Utterson stays behind to enquire about Hyde
Jekyll is not interested in discussing the matter and closes off the conversation.
Utterson promises not to bring it up again
Chapter 4 The Carew Murder Case
A maid is sitting by a window when she notices that (carew) is being approached by a strange very short and ugly man she identifys this man as Mr Hyde . She witnesses the gentleman offer Hyde a polite greeting which Hyde replies to by beating him to death with a stick
Carews body is later found and taken to the police a letter is found on him addressed to Utterson and so the lawyer is called in by the police he identifies this at the MP Sir Danvers Carew and finds half of the cane gifted to Jekyll some years ago
Utterson takes Inspector Newcomen to Hyde’s Soho address- they find it ransacked , with a burnt chequebool and the other half of the cane
Chapter 5 Incident of the Letter
Utterson visits Jekyll and brings up Carew’s murder
Jekyll gives Utterson a letter supposedly from Hyde, Claiming that Hyde will never return!
Utteraon gets his clerk Mr Guest to study the handwriting of this letter and determines that it was written by Dr Jekyll Utterson concludes that Jekyll is covering up for Hyde
Chapter 6 Remarkable Incident
Dr Lanyon becomes ill from a shock and has fallen out with Jekyll. He then later dies.
“I have had a shock,” he said, “and I shall never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it.
Hyde still is untraceable
For two months Jekyll recovers his old self - hosts dinner, attends church and is charitable
Suddenly Jekyll becomes a recluse again and won’t see anyone
Utterson visits Lanyon to see if he knows anything but finds him near death
Lanyon tells Utterson to never bring up Jekyll again
Lanyon gives Utterson a letter not to be opened until Jekyll is dead or has disappeared.
Lanyon dies
Chapter 7 Incident at the Window
Utterson and Enfield out for a Sunday walk
They decide to visit Jekyll who is sat at a window in the laboratory section of his property
Jekyll appears very ill and can’t leave property
Jekyll’s face is struck with terror and he slams the window shut;
Utterson and Enfield walk away in silet horror
Chapter 8 The Last Night
Poole visits Utterson in a panic, asking for his help
Utterson goes to Jekyll’s house and Poole explains that something is wrong with Jekylll
Someone has been shut away i the cabinet for eight days , throwing out instructions to trace some hard to find chemical
Poole reveals that he saw this person and that it was Hyde-they both conclude that Jekyll has been murdered
They break into the cabinet and find HYde;s recently dead body- he has killed himself
They find the lab door key broken that cleary hasnt been used in long time
Also they find a letter addressed to Utterson inside is a new version of Js will and a letter from J telling U to read DR Ls Letter
Utterson heads home to read letter s
Chapter 9 Dr Lanyon’s narrative
Utterson is reading the letter from Dr Lanyon, it has part of Jekyll’s letter to Lanyon in it.
Lanyon was instructed to get a drawer from Jekyll’s house and give it to someone. The drawer contains a notebook which has total fail and double written a lot and some chemicals and powders.
Lanyon goes through with this and it turns out it is Hyde at the door. He then stays out of curiosity to see what Hyde is going to do and watches him transform back into Jekyll. This causes Lanyon to eventually die of shock and fear. .
Chapter 10 Dr Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
Jekyll provides information about his early life before he started his experiments
Hes born into a rich and privileged family
He spent this part of his life suppressing and keeping secret his darker side and this caused his distress
Jeyll begins to experiment with separating the good from the bad
He takes the first potion with the knowledge it could kill him- buy hr precedes regardless
He undergoes a painful transformation into Hyde, losing height, appearing younger, feeling lighter and fundamentally changed
He successfully transforms back into Jekyll after seeing himself for the first time
As Jekyll transforms into Hyde more and more, Hyde grows stronger and the immoral acts he commits become worse.
Jekyll recounts the incident in which he trampled the small girl; shortly after, he wakes up as Hyde without having taken the potion
Jekyll decided to abstain from becoming Hyde again; this lasts two months, and in this time he is more charitable and sociable than ever
One night Jekyll’s temptations get the better of him and he takes the potion; Hyde comes out stronger and more evil than ever and in the end kills Carew
Jekyll resolves to no longer become Hyde, knowing that Hyde will be captured and executed if he is caught.
One day, sometime later, Jekyll is sitting in Regent’s park and transformers into Hyde
Hyde rents a room out at a hotel and sends a letter to Lanyon, asking him to fetch a drawer from Jekyll’s cabinet (this letter in embedded in chapter 9)
Eventually, Jekyll realises that the ingredient for the potion can’t be found again - the original salt was impure and this can’t be replicated
Hyde is now the more powerful of the two - Jekyll will eventually be stuck as Hyde
Hyde writes his letter to Utterson (this is chapter 10) and the novella ends with Hyde choosing to kill himself rather than be caught by the police.
The role of the land lady
The landlady is polite but unpleasant
‘she had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent’
-her ill-feeling is hidden by politeness making her a hyprocrite
She is indiscreet in telling Utterson and Newcomen about Hyde before knowing who they are
- She tells them his ‘habits were very irregular’ and that he had been away for two months
-she is a gossip and abuses her knowledge as a landlady
She is pleased that Hyde is in trouble:
- ‘A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman’s face’
How friendship is portrayed in the novella and quotes:
Enfield and Utterson are friends ‘It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other’.
‘I am an old friend of Dr Jekyll’s’
‘[I]t was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men
‘well known man about town’
Utterson, Lanyon and Jekyll are friends who dine together
Jekyll and Lanyon are longstanding professional friends though they fell out over Jekyll’s approach to science
Friendship is also a spur to the action:
-Utterson’s friendship with Jekyll leads him to investigate Hyde and to become more involved in the action of the story
-Poole asks Utterson as Jekyll’s friend to help him on the final night
-Jekyll turns to Lanyon one of his ‘oldest friends when he needs chemicals from his cabinet.
Hyde friendship quote:
“We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them
The novella looks at how and why people people make and break friendships and what
