Jekyll and Hyde - Quotes

Question 1

Comparing Hyde to an unstoppable force, simile

Answer 1

‘It wasn’t like a man, it was like some dammed juggernault.’

Question 2

Hyde’s appearance from Enfield, repetition of ‘something’

Answer 2

‘Something displeasing, sometihng down-right detestable.’

Question 3

Dr Lanyon and Jekyll can’t put their scientific differences aside and do not see each other anymore. “Devilish” and “little” perhaps reflect Hyde.

Answer 3

‘He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind (…) I see and i have seen devilish little of the man.’

Question 4

Dr Jekyll physically changing appearance referred to ‘grew pale to the very lips’.

Answer 4

‘The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.’

Question 5

Describing Hyde’s zoomorphism esque qualities - simile

Answer 5

‘And the next moment, with ape like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows.’

Question 6

Describing the scene of

carew’s death - pathetic fallacy

Answer 6

‘It was a wild, cold, seasonal night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her.’

Question 7

Jekyll’s full statement - how it got the better of him - ‘slowly loosing hold of …’

Answer 7

‘I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.’

Question 8

Jekyll’s full statement - temptation

Answer 8

‘… and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that i at last fell before the assaults of temptation.’