Jekyll And Hyde Quotes Flashcards
Mr Utterson “O my poor old Harry Jekyll, If ever i read Satan’s signature upon a face it is on that of your new friend.”
How Utterson views Hyde, Hyde does not remind Utterson of the devil but rather stamped by satan, been given the seal of approval. But its a juxtaposition when it refers to him as a new friend and not the friends we keep.
Mr Utterson”I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”
Reflects Utterson non-judgmental and curious nature. He believes in personal freedom and avoids interfering in others lives , even if it leads to negative consequences. This quote foreshadows the novel’s themes of duality, individual responsibility, and the complex nature of evil, as shown by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Jekyll “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.”
Jekyll is like an drug addict. Hyde symbolises, negativity, danger and sin. The moment Jekyll became Hyde he felt free, happier and younger, It’s as if evil is pulling him in, and he is a slave to his desires
Jekyll “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.”
This quote is talking about Jekyll and Hyde are unique, How they are in 2 seperate bodies which are living amongst society and if people don’t control there 2 sides they will become broken people. Hyde is a slave to evilness, Jekyll becomes a slave to evilness through Hyde. Throughout the text we see the struggles of Jekyll and his desires for Hyde.
Jekyll “I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory.”
Hyde is dying to come out, Jekyll is dying for Hyde to come out, He remembers the trampling of the girl and the evil acts and he felt so free that he can’t resist holding back. Shows the weakness of Jekyll.
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered”
Hyde is like an unevolved creature, stuck on the evolution, The sounds of the bones breaking is not capable from a normal human. These are the works of an furious animal.
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see”
Example of Hydes desires, He wasn’t trampling over an enemy, he trampled over a random innocent girl on the street, his desires are breaking free. Oxymoron, trampling calmly over her
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest”
This describes the street where Jekyll’s respectable house (and the door to Hyde’s laboratory) is located. It stands out as clean and well-maintained in an otherwise “dingy neighbourhood.” This creates a stark contrast that immediately signals something is unusual. The “gaiety of note” feels almost artificial, hinting that appearances can be deceiving in this seemingly respectable area. It subtly introduces the theme of duality – the respectable facade hiding something less savory. The “fire in a forest” simile suggests a small point of light surrounded by darkness, perhaps foreshadowing the hidden evil within.
“I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. “ - “You do not know him as I do” - “He will never more be heard of”
Jekyll is promising that he will never see Hyde again, Hyde is gone. This quote highlights the lack of control the Jekyll has. The moment he lies for Hyde, The moment he lies to keep Hyde away, shows he has lost control, Not only at the end of the book but since the start when he tramples over the girl. He has lost control since beginning. The difference is at the end of the text, he loses control of himself and Hyde and therefore loses control of everything around him.
“A fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.”
The fog is present from the industrial revolution, but it is also personified to create a Gothic atmosphere in the streets. Alternatively, it could symbolize the obscurity of the entire situation at hand; the literal fog emphasizes the metaphorical fog surrounding the true identity of Mr. Hyde. Furthermore, Stevenson summons up lyrical prose to describe the flowing noise of the city life, of London’s denizens passing along outside the window in their routine traverses. The metaphor of the ‘city dwellers’ placed humanity and the natural world in a nearly equivalent relationship, a move that is unsurprising given the immense technological advances in London at the time. All around are hints of the natural replaced by human: The fog that is actually man-made smog; the ‘mighty wind’ of passerby. The noun ‘arteries’ which refers to streets while also suggesting human blood vessels underscores this theme; the city itself is equated to the human body.
