J&H key quotes Flashcards
- He is witness rather than taking action to help Jekyll
- Attempts to mind his own business showing his conservative nature.
“I incline to Cain’s heresy”- Utterson
- He is pure evil, with satan being the universal imagery of temptation and desire and suffering
- ‘Signature’ suggests that he is a product of or created by satan
“If I ever read satan’s signature upon a face”- Utterson
- Triplet of the pleasures that is brought by Hyde. Hyde is a metaphor for Freud’s id.
- Addiction to Hyde, that will eventually result in him being unable to revert back into his normal self.
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body”- Jekyll
- Human beings are a mixture of good and evil
- Nature of duality and has sides of good and bad within them
“All human beings… are commingled out of good & evil”- Jekyll
- Slave to evil and satan
- Metaphor of the id
- Hyde goes against the idea of duality as there seems to be no good within him
“Edward Hyde alone… is pure evil”
- Pathetic fallacy of all going well, which may seem to foreshadow
- ‘Animal’ highlights the regression undergone by Hyde and his lack of conscience
- ‘Licking’ shows how Jekyll is enticed and being tempted by the desires he can obtain through Hyde. It also is used as a lexical field of animalistic behaviour
“I sat in the Sun on a bench, the animal within me licking the chops of memory”- Jekyll
- He attempts to be like God (common theme in gothic books during the fin de siècle).
- Face the punishments
- Suffers as a Victorian gentlemen in having to contain his desires
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”- Jekyll
- Shows he is presented as a typical Victorian gentleman and is serious and contained in nature
- Could act as a foil to Jekyll -who struggles to repress his desires
“Mark of a modest man”
“Yet somehow loveable”
- Shows his humble and respectable nature in the fact that he is willing to do what’s right
- Tolerant about the shortcomings of others, not succumbing to his desires
“Shoulders broad enough to bare the blame”
“Approved tolerance for others”
- Shows his curious nature, how he wants to investigate to case of Jekyll.
- Yet still able to conquer the desires and has a conservative approach- not only as a Victorian gentleman, but also as he doesn’t want to delve into the world full of sin and darkness.
“I shall be Mr. Seek”
“Inordinate curiosity”
“Another to conquer it”
- Utterson
- Like a vicious animal, he attacked- highlighting atavism
- Juxtaposition highlights his lack of remorse towards the girl and how his conscience is removed
- Onomatopoeia further emphasises the pain he went through and the devolution undergone.
“Ape-like fury”
“Man trampled calmly”
“Audibly shattered”
- Highlights the inequality of class at that time in London, with the house of Jekyll standing out amongst the rest of the neighbourhood
- Nightmarish imagery of London is used to frighten the Victorian audience, as the dark and evils of the book appear to be close to home
“Like a fire in a forest”
“Some city in a nightmare”
- Jekyll has become a slave to his desires, telling himself that he won’t transform again
- However, he struggles to control his transformations, highlighting the true power of desire.
“I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again”- Jekyll
- The contrasting imagery shows the difference between Jekyll (the Victorian gentleman) and Hyde, who presented atavism and devolution.
- Juxtaposition of ‘large’ and ‘dwarfish’ highlights how Hyde is only a part of the whole
“A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty”
“Pale and dwarfish”
- Contrast of setting is used to show the inner personalities of the two characters
- ‘Darkness’ may be used to show the sinful experiments going on
“Pleasantest room in London”
“Plunged into darkness”
