Jekyll and Hyde Quotations Flashcards

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

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Describes Mr Hyde. Animalistic and violent - connects to Atavism

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

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

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“Like some damned juggernaut”

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

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“Man is not truly one but truly two”

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

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“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath”

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

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“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

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

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

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

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“Satans signature upon a face”

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

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

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

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“Pale and dwarfish”

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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

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

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

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

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

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“These polar twins are continuously struggling”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Such unscientific balderdash”

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Dr Lanyon referencing Dr Jekyll’s scientific experiments

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“A hide-bound pedant”

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

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“Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips”

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

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

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

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

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

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“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”

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

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

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

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“sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deathly sick”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Juxtaposition of Dr Lanyon’s appearance and change

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

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

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

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

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“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”

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

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” like some disconsolate prisoner”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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“Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,”

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

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

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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

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

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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

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“inclined to help rather than reprove”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Like a fire in a forest”

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

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“a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth”

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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