Jekyll and Hyde Quotations Flashcards
“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
Utterson
“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” … “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Utterson
Sums up whole book
Cain + Abel were the sons of Adam from the bible
Cain murdered Abel
Utterson says he is inclined to that nature , to the dark side
Abel went to the devil
Dig at religion because people believed that Abel went to god
From the text we can learn that people have a good and bad side and Hyde will have gone to the dark side for the crimes he committed
Foreshadowing - he watches Jekyll’s decline but only gets involved when he is forced to.
Juxtaposition - why would you let your brother go to the devil
Ignore each others short comings
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.”
Rule of 3 - Jekylls describing his transformation from Jekyll to Hyde and how it makes him feel.
Symbolism - Transformation makes us look at who we are and we have a moral compass that stops us from doing there things.
He is a drug addict for evil
Hyde is a symbol of sin and dark deep desires he is pure evil but when he transforms he feels free.
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
Duality of nature - all have good and bad
What makes Jekyll and Hyde so unique is that they are housed in two separate bodies and living amongst society.
Control is lost.
Jekyll becomes a slave to Hyde evilness
We see jekylls struggles thoroughout the text to control it.
It’s okay to have two sides as long as you don’t fully become one or the other
“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory.”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered.”
Context - Ape like fury - Charles Darwin
Hyde is like a devolved creature he is stuck in the timeline of evolution .
Bones audibly shattered - no human being is capable of this it. This is the work of an animal.
By creating Hyde Jekyll has gone backwards on the line of evolution.
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.”
Juxtaposition - because he is trampling over a girl
Oxymoron - trampling and calmly
He is not trampling on an enemy but on an innocent girl which displays the ideas of leering your desires run wild
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest.”
“I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again…”
