Jekyll And Hyde Quotes

Question 1

‘I incline to cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil his own way’- Utterson

Answer 1

1. This is found in chapter 1
2. This quote means that Utterson’s nature is forgiving and non-judgmental. He doesn’t impose moral values on others.
3. This refers to the bible with the story of Cain and Abel; Cain murdered Abel.
4. This quote suggests that the speaker is moral.

Question 2

‘If I ever read Satan’s signature upon a face’.- Utterson describing Hyde

Answer 2

1. This quote is in chapter 2
2. Utterson is saying that Hyde looks more evil than anybody else he’s ever seen.
3. The phrase ‘Satan’s signature’ is sibilance.
4. The quote is seen as frightening because back in those days, religion was huge and dwelling in satanic practices was seen as a heresy

Question 3

‘He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind’.- Lanyon of Jekyll

Answer 3

1. This is seen in chapter 2.
2. Lanyon is a traditional medical doctor interested on the human body. He felt Jekyll had tried to push the chemical boundaries of science in the wrong way.

Question 4

‘Like a district of some city in a nightmare’- Utterson of Soho in London

Answer 4

1. This is in chapter 4.
2. Utterson is expressing his negative view of Soho. He is horrified by the experience of travelling through it and he is disgusted by the place and the people of it. This creates suspense and makes the reader feel more fearful about reaching Hyde’s house at the end of the journey.
3. A simile is being used in this quote.

Question 5

‘In a great flame of anger’ and ‘with a ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot’.

Answer 5

1. This is in chapter 4.
2. This quote describes Hyde as an animal capable of rages, not human. This shows that Hyde doesn’t care about his actions and has no control over his fiery, bestial behaviour.
3. Hyde is trampling Carew to death
4. It’s in the perspective of a young maid, viewing it through a window.
5. The victim left dead in the gutter.
6. The word trampling shows how brutal Hyde is toward Carew
7. The context of ‘ape-like’ shows how devolved Hyde is to the point he’s acting like a monkey