Jekyll And Hyde Quotes Flashcards
Quotes on Hyde (17)
‘Black sneering coolness/like satan’
‘The other snarled in a savage laugh’
‘Stamping his foot/ broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth’
‘Ape - like fury’
‘A murders autograph’
‘Like some damned juggernaut’
‘Mere animal terror’
‘Pale and dwarfish’
‘Haunting sense of deformity’
‘Like a rat’
‘Particularly small and wicked looking’
‘A haunting sense of unexpressed deformity’
‘Murderous mixture’
‘(A look) So ugly it bought a sweat on me running’
‘Very small’
‘Some creature’
‘Something down right detestable’
Quotes on Utterson (9)
‘If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek’
‘God forgive us! God forgive us!’
‘He had an approved tolerance of others’
‘The last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down going men’
‘My Utterson the lawyer was a man of countenance, that was never lighted by a smile’
‘cold, scanty, and embarrassed’
‘Backwards in sentiment;lean, long, dusty, dreary’
‘Somehow loveable’
‘I incline to Cain’s heresy’
Quotes on Jekyll (5)
“He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”
“Lanyon declared himself a doomed man”
“my soul sickened at it…I must die”
“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting”
‘He was wild when he was young’
‘A large well-made smoothed faced man of 50’
‘There came a blackness about his eyes’ (evil)
Quotes about the horror and fear settings of the Novella - Urban Gothic (9)
“nocturnal city”
“The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night”
“labyrinths of lamp lighted city”
“Like a district of some city in a nightmare”
“It was a wild, cold seasonable night of March”
“fog rolled over” and “dismal quarter of Soho”
“dingy windowless structure”.
“sordid negligence”
“fog slept above the drowned city”
Violence and crime in the Novella
The trampling of the little girl (Chapter 1)
Murder of Sir Danvers Carew (The Carew Murder Case - Chapter 4)
Quotes about the theme of duality (10)
“The two hands are in many points identical” (said by Guest)
“If it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” (said by Poole)
“Man is not truly one but truly two”.
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body..”
“I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde,”
“my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
“all human beings are commingled out of good and evil”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers”
“disconsolate prisoner”
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood”
Quotes on Science vs Religion (6)
“The compound changed to a dark purple…watery green”
“To be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine”.
“Pious work…annotated with startling blasphemies”
“I let my brother go to Cain’s heresy”
“hid them with a sense of shame”.
“God forgive us! God forgive us!”
Quotes on Reputation
Quotes on Lanyon
‘Hearty, healthy dapper red - faced gentleman’
Secrecy and Reputation (+ analysis) - Using save my exams
‘Though he enjoyed the theatre (My Utterson) had not crossed the doors of one for 20 years’
- Stevenson presents Utterson as a highly moral and devout Christian and he is depicted as a model Victorian gentleman
He is described as being “austere with himself” and that he restricting his pleasures and even though he enjoys attending the theatre, he had not frequented one for twenty years, due to their somewhat poor reputation
This quote suggests that Utterson has repressed his desire for theatre as perhaps the enjoyment of theatre may lead him to sinful thoughts
‘Something eminently human beaconed in his eye’
Gabriel Utterson is presented as having “an approved tolerance for others” and Stevenson suggests he is a kind and genial character
Stevenson presents Utterson as a respectable lawyer and as a trustworthy, discreet and loyal friend to Jekyll
He is presented as both rational and calm and through his objective perspective, Stevenson enables the reader to judge the evidence alongside him
