Jekyll and Hyde quotes Flashcards
Quote for Lanyon and Jekyll’s fall out
“Unscientific Balderdash”
Duality between jekyll and hydes home
Jekyll’s “comfortable” house contrasts with the “sinister” laboratory that Hyde goes into.
How does Enfield describe how evil Hyde is?
He describes him “like Satan”
Quote for Hyde killing girl
“Trampled calmly over her body”
Quote for Enfield expressing his discomfort on Hyde
“I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why”
Hyde’s appearance from Utterson’s perspective
“Hardly Human” - Uncanny
“Pale and dwarfish”
Jekyll possibly hiding his darker side
“Slyish cast”
Jekyll’s scientific work is going against God
“Scientific Heresies”
Hyde’s trampling over Carew
“Ape-like Fury”
Jekyll’s reply to Utterson Chapter 6
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way”
Utterson and Enfield at the laboratory window
“abject terror and despair”
Maids in Jekyll’s house
“Hysterical with fear”
Jekyll’s initial description
“A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty” (Victorian Gentleman) “Slyish cast” - (Duality)
The Carew murder
“An aged beautiful gentleman” contrasting with “very small gentleman”.
“Bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway”
“clubbed him to the earth”
First description of Jekyll’s laboratory
“Once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent”
Hyde’s home
“However, the room bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransaked”
Mr Hyde Quotes
‘Ape-like fury’
‘haunting sense of deformity’
‘pale and dwarfish’
‘the other snarled in a savage laugh’
Utterson Quotes
‘if he be Mr Hyde, i shall be Mr Seek.’
‘God forgive us! God forgive us!’
‘He had an approved tolerance for others’
Dr Lanyon quotes
‘He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face’
‘My soul sickened at it… I must die’
-‘Your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan’. (chpt 9 )
Theme of Duality of man
‘Man is not truly one but truly two’
‘My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’
‘All human beings are commingled out of good and evil’ (Also repression and Desire.)
‘I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde’ (Science and Progress)
Science vs Religion
‘Hid them with a sense of shame’
‘I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.’
The Nature of Evil
‘Bones were audibly shattered’
‘Clubbed him to the earth’
‘Little man trampled calmly over the child’s body… it was hellish to see’
‘The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde’
The supernatural/ The uncanny
‘It was like some damned Juggernaut’
‘Even in his dreams, he had no face’
Quote for Jekyll’s home
‘Sinister block of building thrust forward’
‘Tramps slouched into the recess.’
The gothic
‘A fog rolled over the city in the small hours’
Moral responsibility
‘It was by this time too late to mend’ - Dr. Jekyll
“I had been two in one at least, and must suffer for the sins of either” - Dr Jekyll
Social Hypocrisy
“I regarded her with fear and loathing” - Hyde (Referring to little girl)
“That child of hell had nothing human” - Mr. Utterson (referring to Hyde)
Progress
“The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll” - Mr. Utterson (Jekyll losing control)
Quote for enfield suspecting Jekyll being blackmailed
“Blackmail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth”
Quotes for secrecy
Beginning: ‘Slyish cast’
‘A large, well-made smooth man of fifty’
‘Blackmail i suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth.’
Middle:
‘Windowless structure’ ‘Windows barred with iron’ ‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way’
End: ‘The door was very strong, the lock excellent’
‘To resolve all that was unbearable.’
