Jekyll and Hyde - Quotes COPY Flashcards
‘ a man of rugged …… ‘
‘ countenance, never lighted by a smile ‘
- rough appearance
- never smiled ~ emotionless
- manly
- ‘rugged countenance’ - suggests he gives off a tough aura
‘ backward …..’
‘ in sentiment ‘
- Utterson is reluctant to show emotion
- ironic as his job deals with people and may require him to show emotion
‘ yet somehow …..’
‘ lovable ‘
- changes any bad opinion of Utterson
- shows that people actually like him
‘ the last good …….’
‘ influence in the lives of down-going men’
- loyal trustworthy friend
- seen as a role model for men who are described as ‘down-going’
- doesn’t judge people based on their actions
- he is a source of support for people who are in trouble
- positive anchor
‘ something eminently……’
‘ human beaconed from his eyes ‘
- metaphor
- a good person
- ‘beaconed’ guides someone or something from danger ~ Utterson may be that guide that guides someone away from danger
‘ in any extremity inclined ……’
‘ to help rather than reprove ‘
- doesn’t judge ~ qualities he must have for his job
- ‘inclined’ = willing to do something ~ caring character
‘ chief jewel …..’
‘ of the week ‘
- their walks were precious to them ~ valued the walks
- ‘chief jewel’ suggests that Utterson looks forward to these walks each week
‘ like a fire ….’
‘ in a forest ‘
- simile
- the area stands out in the town
- fire offers light and warmth but can also give a sense of danger and can be destructive ~ links to Hyde being small and looking like he’s harmless but he actually is very harmful
‘ the man trampled …’
‘ calmly over the child’s body ‘
- juxtaposition
- doesn’t care that he is hurting the girl ~ calmly
- ‘calmly’ ~ abverb
- ‘trampled’ violent verb
‘Sinister’ and ‘no windows’
‘Sinister’ - threatening, not safe, evil, reflects Hyde’s character
‘No windows’ - isolated, secrecy
‘Death or……..
unexplained absence’
- Jekyll knows his potential consequence
- mysterious
‘Unscientific ….
Balderdash’
- too wild for Lanyon
- goes against Lanyon’s rationality
- supernatural
Closed the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the……..
low growl of London from all around very silent’
‘The low growl of London’ - implies dangers of London at the times
Animalistic - Hyde - warning
‘Concealed my …..
pleasures’
- Reputation
- Concealed - secrecy , repression of desires
- Pleasures - hard to control
- mystery
- ‘pleasures’ hard to control
‘Hyde alone in the ranks of making was pure evil’
- Abnormal
- supernatural - gothic novels
‘My new power……..
tempted me until I fell into slavery’
- New power tempted - can’t resist , pleasures
- Fell - uncontrolled , inevitable
- Slavery - forced , controlled , doesn’t want to but can’t stop
‘Sea of liberty’
- Metaphor
- Almost complete freedom
- how Jekyll feels when he’s Hyde
‘I was slowly losing…….
hold of my original better self’
- Knows that being Hyde is wrong
- Regret
- Remorseful
‘Hardly human’
- Supernatural gothic monster
- Different to everyone
- Animalistic
- ( Created like Frankenstein by Jekyll )
‘The moment I chose , I can be……
rid of Mr Hyde’
- Reassuring himself - not sure
- Has control - ironic because later on he loses control of turning into Hyde - who over powers him Reassuring himself - not sure
- Has control - ironic because later on he loses control of turning into Hyde - who over powers him
‘Ape like fury ‘
‘Bones were audibly shattered’
- Power
- Animalistic
- Uncontrollable
- Doesn’t care - no conscience
- animals act on instinct
- Darwin’s theory
‘Like a district of some city in a nightmare’
‘Some’ - doesn’t look like London anymore, change
- ‘nightmare’ - frightening, unpleasant, terror
‘Deathly sick’
- How Jekyll looks when he’s at the window
- affected by Carew’s death
Lanyon - ‘had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face’
- doomed
- dying of shock
‘Distinguished future’
- reputation
- better than normal
- respected
‘Growl of London’
- metaphor
- mr Hyde is described as animalistic, wild and menacing
- implies dangers and mysteries of London
- animal’s aggression
- warning that Hyde is an awful person
‘ at night under the face of the fogged city moon’
- metaphor
- describes how no one knew what Hyde looked like exactly
- the fog could represent something hiding him
- fog represents secrecy,mystery, hidden sides of human nature
‘Good influence’ and ‘reputable’
- he helps others and affects the positively
- reputation important in the Victorian Era
‘A strong feeling…..
Of deformity’
- not normal
- making assumptions
- links Hyde to pure evil
- ‘deformity’ sign of evil
- ‘feeling’ a sense rather than sight
Like some disconsolate prisoner
- prisoner of Hyde
- simile
- Jekyll is sad
- isolation
That man is not truly one but truly two
- duality
- ‘truly one’ most people believe we are one person but Jekyll argues something else
‘It was Hyde and Hyde alone’
- doesn’t take responsibility
I am ashamed of my long tongue
- doesn’t like gossip
- Enfield tells the first story about Mr. Hyde
- Victorian men are concerned with their reputation
Hide-bound pedant
- thinks Lanyon is too tradition ~ Lanyon thinks Jekyll is too modern
- not progressive
- not a risk taker
- opposite to Jekyll
The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city
- reflecting Hyde’s control over Jekyll
- pathetic fallacy
- fog hovering over the town
- uncertainty, hidden secrets
- creates a creepy atmosphere
I am chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also
- alliteration
- ‘sinners’ taking responsibility
- damaging himself ~ punished
‘A leap of welcome’
- freedom
- risk
- not easy to control
Sold a slave to my original evil self
- Jekyll addiction ~ Stevenson’s addiction to cocaine
- Jekyll chose the devil ~ Hyde is pure evil
If Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend
- something about Hyde links to Satan
- ‘signature’ suggests that Hyde has come from Satan because he is pure evil
