Jekyll And Hyde Quotes Flashcards
“Door blistered and distained”
Chapter 1
Description of back of house Juxtaposition to front of the house
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body”
Chap 1
Oxymoron
Zoomorphism of Hyde
“It wasn’t like a man it was like some damned juggernaut”
Chap 1
Negative adj
Unstoppable force
Describing Hyde
“Black sneering coolness…like Satan”
Negative adj
Chap 1
Something demonic - Hyde
“Utterson opened his safe, took…Dr Jekyll’s will”
Chap 2
Documents
Secrecy
“A hearty, healthy, dapper, red faced gentleman”
Chap 2
About Landon
Positive adjs
Full of life
“Jekyll became to fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind”
Chap 2
Lanyons view of Jekyll
“Scientific balderdash”
Lanyons view of Jekyll
Chap 2
“The by street was very solitary and in spite of the low growl of London, very silent”
Chap 2
Gothic imagery
Personification
“Pale and dwarfish”
Chap 2
Gothic character
Negative adj
Description of evil, ugliness, subhuman
“An impression of deformity…malformation”
Chap 2
Gothic character
Description of evil, ugliness, subhuman
“At the front door…a great air of wealth and comfort”
Chap 2
Juxtaposition to back door
Description of Jekylls front door
Positive adjs
“I chose to be rid of Mr Hyde?
Hubris and excessive arrogance
Chap 3
“A fog rolled over the city…lit but the full moon”
Gothic imagery
Chap 3
“All of a sudden he broke out into a great flame of anger”
Maids narrative, shows example of multiple narratives
Metaphor
“Mr Hyde clubbed him to death with ape like fury”
Links to evolution, zoomorphism
Chap 4
“A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven”
Gothic imagery
Chap 4
Metaphor
Pall-covering of coffin
“Swirling wreaths”
Gothic imagery
Metaphor
Chapter 4
Further link to death
“A dingy street”
Chap 4
Where Hyde lives, back of the house
The area of Soho is a reflection of Hyde’s character
“Unexpressed deformity”
Desc of Hyde
Chap 4
“The dingy windowless structure”
Jekylls lab
Secrecy
Chap 5
“Dusty windows barred with iron”
Jekylls lab
Chap 5 secrecy
“He locked the note in his safe”
Secrecy
Chap 5
“He was no distinguished for religion…he did good”
Science vs religion
Juxtaposition of his world of science
Chap 6
“Some deep seated terror of the mind”
Lanyon visibly dying after what he saw
Chap 6
“Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed”
Secrecy and letter from Lanyon
Chap 6
Statements, recipes, wills
“Not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Henry Jekyll”
Lanyons instructions to Utterson
Chap 6
“The whole of the servants huddled together…the house maid broke into hysterical whimpering”
Lower class perceived as being emotional Chap 8
“The creature…that masked thing like a monkey jumped”
Desc of Hyde
Chap 8
“A large envelope in the doctors hand the name of Mr Utterson”
Epistolary (documents)
Chap 8
“I would say nothing of this paper”
Reputation
Secrecy
Chap 8
“I felt bound to do as he requested”
Lanyons response to Jekylls letter
Duty
Chap 9
“I concealed my pleasures”
You don’t Jekyll uncomfortable in Victorian society
Chap 10
“Man is not truly one, but truly two”
Duality
Chap 10
“Edward Hyde…was pure evil”
Chap 10
Jekylls view of Hyde
“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
Metaphor
Zoomorphism
Chap 10
Tragic hero, Jekyll loosing control
