Jekyll and Hyde Quotations

Question 1

“Ape-Like fury, hailing down a storm of blows”

Answer 1

Describes Mr Hyde. Animalistic and violent - connects to Atavism

Question 2

“Trampled calmly over the body of the child and left her screaming on the ground”

Answer 2

Oxymoron used to question Mr Hyde’s behaviour. There is a gothic tone established and connects to Freud’s ID

Question 3

“Like some damned juggernaut”

Answer 3

Shows the strength of Mr Hyde, presenting him as an unstoppable force

Question 4

“Man is not truly one but truly two”

Answer 4

A strong declarative statement and the findings of Dr Jekyll’s scientific studies. Connects to the theme of duality

Question 5

“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath”

Answer 5

Animalistic language - connotations of a snake which may connect to the devil in the story of Adam and Eve

Question 6

“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

Answer 6

Description of Mr Hyde - makes him seem sinister and evil. Animalistic verb ‘snarled’ connects to the primitive nature of Hyde

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Religious imagery. Connects to the concept of repression. The use of the verbs ‘caged’ and ‘roaring’ connect to a trapped animal.

Question 8

“Satans signature upon a face”

Answer 8

Description of Mr Hyde - religious imagery and connection to the Devil. Can also connect to Atavism

Question 9

“Alone in the ranks of mankind, Edward Hyde was pure evil”

Answer 9

Oxymoron - “pure evil” - suggests that Hyde is only the bad part of Dr Jekyll’s repression

Question 10

“Pale and dwarfish”

Answer 10

Description of Mr Hyde, connects to atavism and the concept of height within Victorian England. The smaller you are, the more evil you were seen

Question 11

“So ugly it brought out the sweat on me like running”

Answer 11

This simile connects to the theory of atavism and the pattern throughout the novella of Mr Hyde’s appearance causing others immediate fear

Question 12

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil”

Answer 12

Connections to duality. The Subordinate Clause ‘as we meet them’ connects to the Victorian judgement on appearances

Question 13

“These polar twins are continuously struggling”

Answer 13

Duality of Man. The adverb ‘continuously’ creates a sense of normality with duality in man

Question 14

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man”

Answer 14

Dr Jekyll’s findings from his scientific studies into the duality of man

Question 15

“Lean, long, dusty, dreary yet somehow loveable”

Answer 15

Description of Mr Utterson - shows his duality through the juxtaposition between his appearance and personality

Question 16

“A certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable onto the street”

Answer 16

Personification of the entrance to Mr Hyde’s house - suggests that it is haunting and foreboding

Question 17

“If he shall be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek”

Answer 17

Mr Utterson’s pursuit of knowledge to investigate the connection between Jekyll and Hyde

Question 18

“Such unscientific balderdash”

Answer 18

Dr Lanyon referencing Dr Jekyll’s scientific experiments

Question 19

“A hide-bound pedant”

Answer 19

Dr Jekyll referencing Dr Lanyon as being someone who is overly picky

Question 20

“Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips”

Answer 20

Sudden change in Jekyll’s appearance after Mr Utterson mentions Hyde.

Question 21

“a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness”

Answer 21

Description of Dr Jekyll - Outward and inward appearance both demonstrate that he is a kind man

Question 22

“all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger”

Answer 22

Mr Hyde’s sudden violence when murdering Carew. The metaphor ‘flame of anger’ connotes to his destructive quality and how his evil spreads

Question 23

“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”

Answer 23

Description of the setting. Smog covers heaven symbolising evil and darkness covering morality

Question 24

“this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare”​

Answer 24

Description of the setting. Personifies darkness symbolising the return of evil

Question 25

“sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deathly sick”

Answer 25

Change in appearance of Jekyll. “Deathly sick” demonstrating the impact of Hyde’s attack on Carew

Question 26

“held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.”

Answer 26

Suggests a transformation in Jekyll. Cold hand connects to the paleness of his change in Chapter 3

Question 27

” He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”

Answer 27

Physical description of Dr Lanyon - demonstrating that he is physically doomed to die. Adverb ‘legibly’ suggests a clarity of his fate

Question 28

“The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older”

Answer 28

Juxtaposition of Dr Lanyon’s appearance and change

Question 29

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”​

Answer 29

Jekyll’s confession in his letter to utterson. Juxtaposition between sin and suffer as well as religious connections

Question 30

“The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight”​

Answer 30

Description of the setting. Premature twilight symbolises an unexpected shift in day - night which could represent good - evil

Question 31

“the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below”

Answer 31

Sudden change in Dr Jekyll’s appearance - connects to the theory of atavism

Question 32

” like some disconsolate prisoner”

Answer 32

Description of Dr Jekyll - could connect to his devil being caged but the roles have reversed as he is now trapped instead of Hyde

Question 33

“Right in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.”

Answer 33

A very gothic description of the death of Mr Hyde - this is a very brutal and painful death

Question 34

“he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth”

Answer 34

Injected eyes - creates a sense of being consumed by something. The listing and description makes this transformation really visible and dark

Question 35

“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again”

Answer 35

Layon references his religion when he sees the transformation. This is juxtaposing as he is a man of science

Question 36

“for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death”​

Answer 36

The simile, like a man restored from death, could connect to Jesus rising from the dead. There is a religious mix within a scientific transformation here

Question 37

“Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures”

Answer 37

Jekyll’s confession that Hyde is a pleasure for him - connects to the theme of repression

Question 38

“some men hire bravos, I was the first to do so for his pleasures”

Answer 38

Dr Jekyll describes Hyde as a bravos (a hitman) who is an exciting escape to commit sin undiscovered

Question 39

“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred”

Answer 39

Jekyll describes Mr Hyde as a product of Satan and the devil.

Question 40

“I’m ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again”​

Answer 40

Mr Enfield and Mr Utterson both are ashamed of their gossiping about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - connects to the idea of a Victorian Gentleman

Question 41

“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,”

Answer 41

Mr Hyde gives money to the girl’s family to avoid ruining his reputation

Question 42

“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”

Answer 42

Connects to the biblical allusion of Cain and Able, Mr Utterson will not stand in the way of a man who commits sin - this could be seen to be hypocritical and ironic as he doesn’t stand in the way of Jekyll

Question 43

“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time”

Answer 43

Description of Mr Utterson - the longer he knows someone, the more he is loyal to them. Could look at ivy as poisonous or something that spreads and gets stronger

Question 44

“inclined to help rather than reprove”

Answer 44

Mr Utterson is more likely to support someone than to refuse to do so

Question 45

“though he enjoyed the theatre, [he] had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years”

Answer 45

Mr Utterson’s repression - cares about his outward appearance as a Victorian Gentleman

Question 46

“Blistered and distained, equipped with neither bell nor knocker”

Answer 46

Description of Mr Hyde’s door - could symbolise and connect to the description of Hyde

Question 47

“a man of rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile”

Answer 47

Mr Utterson’s outward appearance as someone who is very serious and a stereotypical Victorian Gentleman

Question 48

“Like a fire in a forest”

Answer 48

The house in Chapter One is described in this way which could be foreshadowing, symbolising its destructive ability.

Question 49

“a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth”

Answer 49

The fire is personified at the end of the novella - connects to the literary motif of fire that gets stronger as the text develops - symbolising the strength of Hyde