Jekyll And Hyde Quotes

Question 1

‘My devil had long been caged- he came out roaring’

Answer 1

• direct opposition to Christian Theology
• manifestation of deep desires
• ‘roaring’- connotations of unstoppable

Question 2

‘Trampled calmly’

Answer 2

• juxtaposition

- effortlessly evil, feels no remorse

Question 3

‘certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street’

Answer 3

• plosives and sibilance emphasises jarring nature of the laboratory
• active connotations of ‘thrust’ (violent imagery)

Question 4

‘So ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running’

Answer 4

• extreme physical reactions

- repulsive

Question 5

‘Perfectly cool and made no resistance’

Answer 5

• no remorse
• relaxed
• relates to ‘trampled calmly’

Question 6

‘Black sneering coolness’

Answer 6

• dark imagery

- no remorse (‘coolness’)

Question 7

‘Something displeasing, something downright detestable’

Answer 7

• otherworldly and doesn’t belong
• vague in nature and unable to be defined in words
• the vagueness creates tension and fear
• alliteration reinforces a sense of repulsion
• anaphora creates air of intangibility

Question 8

‘Unscientific balderdash’

Answer 8

• scientific skepticism
• embodiment of rationalism
• both men are doctors but have chosen divergent paths

Question 9

‘Hissing intake of the breath’

Answer 9

• animalistic

- inhumane

Question 10

‘A great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged in darkness

Answer 10

• Jekyll house is wealthy and welcoming

- juxtaposition- Hyde is bringing in the darkness

Question 11

‘Large, well made, smooth faced man of fifty

Answer 11

• contrasts with Hyde, who is extremely loathsome

- refined physical appearance to directly contrast with troglodytic appearance of Hyde

Question 12

‘A fog rolled over the city’

Answer 12

• extended metaphor and motif of secrecy and evil

Question 13

‘With ape like fury’

Answer 13

• reinforces Hyde’s troglodytic and animalistic nature

- connotations of inhumane

Question 14

‘Bones were audibly shattered’

Answer 14

‘- ‘audibly’ reinforces the fact that Hyde’s blows were of catastrophic effect

• ‘shattered’ implies how fragile his bones are
• the fact that Hyde harmed an innocent and vulnerable person shows how terrible he is

Question 15

‘Incredibly mangled’

Answer 15

• no sign of regret or sympathy

- sir danvers is left in the middle of the road deformed like this, Hyde has no remorse

Question 16

‘Dingy windowless structure’

Answer 16

• fits with motif of darkness and hidden crimes

- Jekyll is trapped within Hyde

Question 17

‘Dusty windows barred with iron’

Answer 17

• Jekyll is trapped within Hyde

- sense of entrapment and claustrophobia

Question 18

‘Fog began to lie thickly’

Answer 18

• fog is an ongoing motif when Hyde is there
• ‘thickly’ connotations that you can’t escape it
• Jekyll’s thoughts are messy and heavy

Question 19

‘Deep seated terror of the mind’

Answer 19

• dramatic imagery

Question 20

‘If I am the child of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also’

Answer 20

• sympathy

- no black and white

Question 21

‘Froze the blood

Answer 21

Reference to an extreme physical reaction

Question 22

‘They say it but for a glimse’

Answer 22

• never said explicitly what they see

- adds to the mystery and tension for the reader

Question 23

‘Sorely contorted and still twitching’

Answer 23

• gruesome and violent imagery

- tension and mystery- why?

Question 24

‘red baize door leaped against the lock and the hinges’

Answer 24

• resistance and unwillingness to reveal his secret
• ‘leaped’ is personification
• ‘red baize’- connotations of danger

Question 25

‘Unusually bare of passengers’

Answer 25

• foreboding

- unsettling, isolated

Question 26

‘The hair stood upon my head like quills’

Answer 26

• extreme physical reactions

- simile emphasises the repulsion and horror

Question 27

‘Cry out like a rat’

Answer 27

• primitive and unloveable

- animalistic connotations

Question 28

‘Like a monkey jumped’

Answer 28

• animalistic

Question 29

‘Weeping like a woman or a lost soul’

Answer 29

• generates sympathy for Jekyll for the first time

Question 30

I had been safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved

Answer 30

Gentlemen were determined to maintain their reputation
Gentlemen were expected to keep appearance perfect and immoral actions hidden
Jekyll struggles with the social pressure to be respectable, the listing shows this