‘Jekyll And Hyde’ Quotations

Question 1

“Door blistered and distained”

Answer 1

Chapter 1
-Description of back of house -Juxtaposition to front of the house

Question 2

“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body”

Answer 2

Chapter 1
-Oxymoron
-Zoomorphism of Hyde

Question 3

“It wasn’t like a man it was like some damned juggernaut”

Answer 3

Chapter 1
-Negative adjective
-Unstoppable force
-Describing Hyde

Question 4

“Black sneering coolness…like Satan”

Answer 4

Chapter 1
-Negative adjective
-Something demonic - Hyde

Question 5

“Utterson opened his safe, took…Dr Jekyll’s will”

Answer 5

Chapter 2
-Documents
-Secrecy

Question 6

“A hearty, healthy, dapper, red faced gentleman”

Answer 6

Chapter 2
-About Landon
-Positive adjs
-Full of life

Question 7

“Jekyll became to fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind”

Answer 7

Chapter 2
-Lanyons view of Jekyll

Question 8

“Scientific balderdash”

Answer 8

Chapter 2
-Lanyons view of Jekyll

Question 9

Quotes and their chapters that link to secrecy

Answer 9

“Utterson opened his safe, took..Dr Jekyll’s will” (C2)

“The dingy windowless structure” (C5)

“Dusty windows barred with iron” (C5)

“He locked the note in his safe” (C5)

“Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed” (C6)

Question 10

Quotes and chapter, gothic imagery

Answer 10

“The by street was very solitary and in-spite of the low growl of London, very silent” (C2)

“A fog rolled over the city…lit by the full moon” (C4)

“A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven” (C4)

“Swirling wreaths” (C4)

“The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city” (C5)

Question 11

Quotes, negative description of Hyde

Answer 11

A
“It wasn’t like a man it was like some damned juggernaut” (C1)

“Black sneering coolness…like Satan” (C1)

“Pale and dwarfish” (C2)

“An impression of deformity…malformation” (C2)

“The creature…that masked thing like a monkey jumped” (C8)

Question 12

Quotes about reputation

Answer 12

“Professional honour and faith to his dead friend were strict obligations” (c6)

“We may at least save his credit” (C8)

“I would say nothing of this paper” (C8)

Question 13

Quote that shows the Victorian attitude

Answer 13

“I am ashamed of my long tongue” (C1, metaphor)

Question 14

Quote that shows the upper class victorians

Answer 14

“Never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse…dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable” (C1, about Mr Utterson)

Question 15

Quotes to show the epistolary (in the form of letters)

Answer 15

“Not to be opened until death or disappearance of Dr Jekyll.”

“Will in the name of Utterson”

“Sealed and stamped envelope”

Question 16

Quotes that show urban terror

Answer 16

“City in a a nightmare”

Streets described as: “empty”, “solitary”, “silent”

Question 17

Quotes that show younger Jekyll

Answer 17

“I concealed my pleasures”

Question 18

Theme: Scientific Development

Answer 18

“I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll… I am quite done with that person; and I beg you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.” - Dr Lanyon.
-evenson presents Lanyon’s emotions very clearly in this section - one of Jekyll’s oldest friends views him as ‘dead’ due to what he has done. The language Stevenson uses is charged with passion and emotion. The repetition of ‘I’ illustrates that Lanyon feels he is in control of the situation and has control over Jekyll.

2) “there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.”
Analysis: This shows that Jekyll eventually killed himself as his desire to experiment made Mr Hyde get stronger. The use of the phrase ‘sorely contorted’ illustrates how science changed who Jekyll was and who he became. It ‘contorted’ his very self.

3) “A week afterwards Dr Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead.”
Analysis: The short time period of a week illustrates how quickly Dr Lanyon’s health deteriorated because of Dr Jekyll’s revelation

Question 19

Theme: Duality

Answer 19

1) “every mark of capacity and kindness - you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr Utterson.”
Analysis: This shows that Dr Jekyll was kind and everyone believed him to be so. The fact that he ‘cherishes’ Mr Utterson tells us that he loves his friends very much and cares about other people.

2) “haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.”
Analysis: This shows that Hyde’s appearance and personality terrifies others – they always remember seeing him. The fact that his appearance is ‘haunting’ shows how terrifying he is.

Question 20

Social and historical context

Answer 20

In the Victorian period, change was apparent due to the Industrial Revolution. Factories were being built and technology was advancing - this resulted in a shift from the ‘natural’ farming type of life to one filled with technology and industry. This change is presented in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde through Jekyll’s experiment - his desire to change the natural course of his being through science.

Question 21

Theme: Nature vs the Supernatural

Answer 21

1) “And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors - behold!”
Analysis: In this quotation, Dr Jekyll (transformed into Mr Hyde) is talking to Dr Lanyon and is revealing the nature of his experiment to him. The repetition of ‘you’ shows Dr Jekyll’s anger towards Dr Lanyon, as he has always ‘denied’ this form of medicine. It also shows his passion for his experiment and highlights that he cares about his experiment more than anything else.

2) “…the cords of his face moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone.”
Analysis: This shows that Jekyll/Hyde should still be alive, as the muscles of his face still look alive - they almost wish to be alive. However, life was ‘quite gone’. This shows that Jekyll/Hyde have died and have no hope in ever returning.

Question 22

Theme: Good vs Evil

Answer 22

1) “One of your fellows, who do what they call good”
Throughout the Novella, the definition of good is always muddled, makes it clear that it isn’t just all black and white, represented in the dark secrets and intentions of other characters

2) “alone in the ranks of mankind, pure evil”
His evil lies in being entirely selfish: he will do whatever he wants to satisfy his own appetites without any regard for other people.

Question 23

Theme: Reputation

Answer 23

1) “The more it looks like Queer Street the less I ask”
Enfield does not like to get involved with gossip or questioning as he worried it could have an impact of his reputation

2) “No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene”
Reflects Victorian society, the corruption and hypocrisy as people silence other people with money so their reputation was not damaged

3) “Became too fanciful” & “began to go wrong, wrong in mind”
Contradict each other Lanyon about Jekyll, as soon as they differ in opinions, they turn on each other to protect their reputation

Question 24

“Mr Hyde clubbed him to death with ape like fury”

Answer 24

Chapter 4
-Links to evolution
-Zoomorphism

Question 25

“A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven”

Answer 25

Chapter 4
-Gothic imagery
-Metaphor
-Pall-covering of coffin

Question 26

“Swirling wreaths”

Answer 26

Chapter 4
-Gothic imagery
-Metaphor
-Further link to death

Question 27

“A dingy street”

Answer 27

Chapter 4
-Where Hyde lives, back of the house
-The area of Soho is a reflection of Hyde’s character

Question 28

“Unexpressed deformity”

Answer 28

Chapter 4
-Description of Hyde

Question 29

“The dingy windowless structure”

Answer 29

Chapter 5
-Jekyll’s lab
-Secrecy

Question 30

“Dusty windows barred with iron”

Answer 30

Chapter 5
-Jekyll’s Lab
-Secrecy

Question 31

“He locked the note in his safe”

Answer 31

Chapter 5
-Secrecy

Question 32

“He was no distinguished for religion…he did good”

Answer 32

Chapter 6
-Science vs religion
-Juxtaposition of his world of science

Question 33

“Some deep seated terror of the mind”

Answer 33

Chapter 6
-Lanyon visibly dying after what he saw

Question 34

“Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed”

Answer 34

Chapter 6
-Secrecy and letter from Lanyon
-Statements, recipes, wills

Question 35

“Not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Henry Jekyll”

Answer 35

Chapter 6
-Lanyons instructions to Utterson

Question 36

“The whole of the servants huddled together…the house maid broke into hysterical whimpering”

Answer 36

Chapter 8
-Lower class perceived as being emotional

Question 37

“The creature…that masked thing like a monkey jumped”

Answer 37

Chapter 8
-Description of Hyde

Question 38

“A large envelope in the doctor’s hand the name of Mr Utterson”

Answer 38

Chapter 8
-Epistolary (documents)

Question 39

“I would say nothing of this paper

Answer 39

Chapter 8
-Reputation
-Secrecy

Question 40

“I felt bound to do as he requested”

Answer 40

Chapter 9
-Lanyons response to Jekyll’s letter
-Duty

Question 41

“Man is not truly one, but truly two”

Answer 41

Chapter 10
-Duality

Question 42

“Edward Hyde…was pure evil”

Answer 42

Chapter 10
-Jekyll’s view of Hyde

Question 43

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”

Answer 43

Chapter 10
-Metaphor
-Zoomorphism
-Tragic hero, Jekyll losing control