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
