Jekyll and Hyde Quotations

Question 1

Introduction to Utterson

Answer 1

• mortify a taste for vintages
• last reputable acquaintance

Question 2

Atmosphere at the start of the story in Story of the Door

Answer 2

• three o clock of a black winter morning
• street after street - labyrinthine

Question 3

Trampling of the girl

Answer 3

• eight or ten
• trampled calmly
• screaming on the ground

Question 4

Enfield’s description of Hyde

Answer 4

• damned Juggernaut
• like Satan
• strong feeling of deformity

Question 5

Reactions to Hyde after trampling of the girl

Answer 5

• as wild as harpies
• Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him

Question 6

Enfield’s description of Jekyll

Answer 6

• pink of the proprieties
• honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth

Question 7

Introduction to Lanyon

Answer 7

• hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman
• old friends, old mates

Question 8

Lanyon’s initial reaction to mention of Jekyll

Answer 8

• unscientific balderdash - contrasts Jekyll saying Lanyon said ‘scientific heresies’
• flushing suddenly purple

Question 9

Utterson’s description of Hyde

Answer 9

• pale and dwarfish
• hardly human, troglodytic

Question 10

Hyde’s reaction when meeting Utterson

Answer 10

• flush of anger
• shrank back with a hissing intake of breath - animalistic

Question 11

Initial description of Jekyll

Answer 11

• large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty
• capacity and kindness

Question 12

Jekyll’s reaction to Utterson’s mention of Hyde

Answer 12

• the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde.
• grew pale
• a blackness about his eye

Question 13

The build up to the murder of Carew

Answer 13

• a fog rolled over the city in the small hours
• aged and beautiful gentleman

Question 14

The murder of Carew

Answer 14

• great flame of anger
• ape-like fury
• [bones] audibly shattered

Question 15

Hyde’s apartment

Answer 15

• dingy street
• furnished with luxury and good taste
• recently and hurriedly ransacked

Question 16

Incident of the Letter

Answer 16

• [Jekyll] looking deadly sick
• I bind my honour - to never see Hyde again
• O God what a lesson I have had

Question 17

Utterson revisits Lanyon

Answer 17

• death warrant written legibly upon his face
• visibly balder and older

Question 18

Lanyon’s reaction to Utterson’s mention of Jekyll on his revisit

Answer 18

• I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll
• [after a] fortnight was dead

Question 19

Incident at the Window

Answer 19

• full of premature twilight
• disconsolate prisoner - about Jekyll

Question 20

Building up to arriving at Jekyll’s in the Last Night

Answer 20

• [Poole’s] manner was altered for the worse
• cold, unseasonable night

Question 21

Arrival at Jekyll’s in the Last Night

Answer 21

• [servants] stood huddled like a flock of sheep
• bless God it’s Mr Utterson - says Cook

Question 22

Hyde in the Last Night

Answer 22

• cry out like a rat - animalistic
• a self-destroyer

Question 23

Jekyll in Lanyon’s narrative

Answer 23

• Lanyon, my life, my honour, my reason, are all at your mercy
• reeled, staggered, clutched at the table

Question 24

Jekyll’s full statement

Answer 24

• man is not truly one, but truly two
• younger, lighter, happier in body
• I had gone to bed as Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde