Jekyll And Hyde (Essay Quotes)

Question 1

How is Hyde presented?

Answer 1

‘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’
‘A murders autograph’
‘Like some damned juggernaut’
‘Mere animal terror’
‘Pale and dwarfish’
‘Haunting sense of deformity’
‘Like a rat’
‘Particularly small and wicked looking’
‘A haunting sense of unexpressed deformity’
‘Murderous mixture’
‘(A look) So ugly it bought a sweat on me running’
‘Very small’
‘Some creature’
‘Something down right detestable’
He leaves Carew’s body ‘incredibly mangled’
‘Seizing, surprising and revolting’
‘Snarled … into a savage laugh’

Question 2

How is Reputation presented?

Answer 2

There is a tension in the novella as the reader knows that Jekyll’s secrets would ruin his reputation if the came out. In Victorian society a man’s secrets could be used to ruin him (Physics and Maths tutor)

‘Make his name stink from one end of London to the other’
‘You start a question and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others’

Using colour imagery and antithesis ( a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else )
‘The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and three came a blackness about his eyes. ‘I do not care to hear more’ said he. ‘This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop’
It highlights a damaging transformation as well as a need to keep it a secret.

Question 3

How is Secrecy presented?

Answer 3

‘No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene … name your figure’
‘Blackmail I suppose; an honest man paying through t he nose for some of the capers of his youth’
‘If he be Mr Hyde … I shall be Mr Seek’
‘Windows barred with iron’
‘Papers had been burned’
‘I burned it’
‘The door was very strong, the lock excellent’
The motif of doors and windows

Question 4

How is Secrecy presented? (2)

Answer 4

Beginning:
(1) ‘you start a question…it’s like starting a stone. ….away goes the stone, starting others’ (sibilance - ‘s’ sounds sound like sshh??)
(2) ‘he was wild when he was young…the ghost of some old sin’ (Blackmail)
(3)’The face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips… there came a blackness about his eyes’

Middle:
(4)
(5) ‘I cannot say I care of what becomes of Hyde, I am quite done with him’
(6) ‘Disappearance of Mr Hyde. Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr Jekyll’
(7) ’The middle of three windows was half - way open…taking in the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner…Dr Jekyll’

End:
(8) ‘That thing in the mask was never Dr Jekyll’
(9) ‘labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy (imagination) can exaggerate’
(10) ‘what follows is under seal of our profession’ (Lanyon can’t tell anyone)