Dr Jekyll Key Quotes Flashcards
Quotes of Dr Jekyll
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind,” (Lanyon about Jekyll)
“The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and there came a blackness about his eyes”
“Weeping like a woman or a lost soul”.
“Pale … half fainting groping like a man restored for death-there stood Henry Jeykll”.
‘Doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders … returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure’
-can’t balance good and evil when one exploits it, they unite to create a greater force
Quotes of Mr Hyde
Black, sneering coolness/like Satan”
“The other snarled in a savage laugh”
“Stamping his foot/broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth,”
“ape-like fury” , ‘pale and dwarvish’
“like some damned Juggernaut” , ‘haunting sense of deformity”
‘Like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals’- Darwin’s theory of evolution- shows how Hyde has devolved by the use of zoomorphism
Quotes of Mr Utterson
“If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek”
“God forgive us! God forgive us!”
“the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down going men”
“Mr Utteson was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed”
‘Lean , long , dusty and dreary’
“somehow lovable”.
‘Shady lawyer’
‘Only differed on some points of science, and being a man of no scientific passions … it is nothing worse than that’- Science doesn’t interest Utterson makes him the perfect person to research relation of Hyde and Jekyll - relates to the Victorian society
Quotes of Dr Lanyon
“He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”
“my soul sickened at it…I must die”
“O God!” … O God!” … pale and shaken, and half fainting” (Jekylls reveals Hyde)
‘Jekyll became too fanciful for me’- acts as a foil to Jekyll and highlights the absurdity of Jekyll’s experimentation
‘Icy panf among my blood’ metaphor suggests Dr Lanyons shock when encountering hyde
Quotes about the setting of horror
“The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night”
“labyrinths of lamp lighted city”
“Like a district of some city in a nightmare”
“It was a wild, cold seasonable night of March”
“fog rolled over” and ‘fog slept above the drowned city’
Quotes about the violence
“Little man trampled calmly over the child’s body…it was hellish to see”
“bones were audibly shattered”
“I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow”
“clubbed him to the earth”
‘Ape-like fury’
‘Broke out of all bounds’
‘Storm of blows’
‘Incredibly mangled’
Quotes of Duality
“If it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” (said by Poole)
“Man is not truly one but truly two”.
“I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde,”
“my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
“all human beings are commingled out of good and evil”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers”
Quotes of science vs religion
“To be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine”.
“Pious work…annotated with startling blasphemies”
“I let my brother go to Cain’s heresy”
Quotes of Enfield
‘One little man stumping along … girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able’- Enfield is passive and observant
‘I am ashamed of my long tongue’- he criticises himself for gossiping
‘Three ‘oclock of a black winter morning’- neglecting to explain activities at this time in night - highlights dual lives lived by the Victorian elite
‘Nodded his head … walked on once more in silence’- shock of what he has witnessed (speechless)
Quotes of Poole
‘Hold your tongue’ - demostrates strict awareness of the levels of appropraite behaviour for situations (Poole less restricted due to class:
‘Shut up again in the cabinet and I don’t like it’- Poole seeks Utterson to help which progresses the narrative (shows his respect for Jekyll)
‘Have been 20 years in this man’s house … master’s made away with’- references Jekyll as ‘master’ show the different in status
Quotes of Carew
London startled by a crime od singular ferocity … high position of the victim’- ‘high position’ would shock the Victorian readership (reflects the hierarchical and classist society of Victorian London). ‘Ferocity’ animalistic connotations refernces Carew as prey
‘White hair’ shows puirty and distuingishment. Carew description feminised Stevenson wants to say tgat femakes would be helpess in rhe novella
‘Air of one very much surprised and trifle hurt’- increase tension surrounding death, leads reader to assume Carew was unaware of Hyde’s oncoming actions (serves as a plot device)
