Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

Question 1

quote about the doctor wanting to kill Hyde

Answer 1

i saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him

Question 2

2 quotes about Hyde’s appearance

Answer 2

• the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity

- something downright detestable

Question 3

quote about Hyde’s bestial nature

Answer 3

• snarled aloud into a savage laugh

Question 4

quotes about the weather

Answer 4

• the wind which only broke in puffs and draughts

- a great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven

Question 5

quotes about Sir Danvers Carew

Answer 5

• he seemed to breathe such an old-world kindness of disposition
• very pretty manner of politeness

Question 6

5 quotes that show the overall theme of the book

Answer 6

• man is not truly one but truly two
• even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other
• all human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind was pure evil
• an ordinary secret sinner…the fall seemed natural
• if i could be said to be either, it was only because i was radically both

Question 7

3 quotes about Jekyll’s regret

Answer 7

• solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self
• if i am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of sufferers also
• you must suffer me to go my own way
• it will not last long, thank god (illness, incarceration, life, or ability to control Hyde?)

Question 8

quotes about jekyll and hyde’s relationship

Answer 8

• i was slowly losing hold of my original and better self…Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference
• the moment i choose, i can be rid of Mr. Hyde
• co-heir with him to death

Question 9

quotes about Hyde’s door

Answer 9

• bore the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence

- equipped with neither bell nor knocker

Question 10

how are different narrative perspectives used

Answer 10

• limited narrative (we see things as Utterson sees them)
• embedded narratives (realistic, frightening as it feels real)
• maid tells a very fanciful story (true?)

Question 11

what is the word for a novel whose main part of the story is told through letters

Answer 11

Epistolary novel

Question 12

quotes about Jekyll’s house

Answer 12

• freshly painted shutters, well polished brasses-

Question 13

quote about Lanyon

Answer 13

• but i have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before i see the end
• the geniality…was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling
• such unscientific balderdash

Question 14

quotes about Utterson

Answer 14

• never lighted by a smile
• though he enjoyed the theatre, he had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years
• I incline to Cain’s heresy
• the honour, the sanity or the life (honour before both sanity and life)

Question 15

quote about Hyde trampling the girl

Answer 15

• the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.
• like some dammed juggernaut

Question 16

quotes about Jekyll’s appearence

Answer 16

• every mark of capacity and kindness

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Question 17

quotes about Hyde killing Carew

Answer 17

• hailing down a storm of blows
• great flame of anger
• broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth

Question 18

quote about how Hyde views his creation

Answer 18

• a new province of knowledge and new avenues of fame and power

Question 19

What was the setting of the Carew Murder like

Answer 19

Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless.

(cloudless to foggy -> pathetic fallacy)