Jekyll & Hyde - Quotations Flashcards
Enfield uses an animalistic verb to describe Hyde’s first crime, and emphasises the innocence and vulnerability of the victim.
‘Trampled calmly over the childs body’
Enfield describes Hyde with a direct link to Satan.
‘Carrying it off, Sir, really like Satan.’
Dr Lanyon describes Jekyll in a way that makes him seem disreputable and unscientific.
‘Henry Jekyll has become too fanciful for me’
London is described in a very gothic way with onomatopoeia to make it seem like a predatory animal.
‘The low growl of London from all around’
Hyde is described using onomatopoeia to make him sound animalistic and evil.
‘A hissing intake of breath’ and ‘A savage laugh’
Utterson guesses that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll and uses a metaphor of illness to show how infectious bad deeds can be.
‘The cancer of some concealed disgrace’
When he murdered Sir Danvers Carew, Hyde is described as animalistic and even possibly in Darwinian terms.
‘With ape-like fury’
Poole describes Hyde with a simile which shows his lying, duplicitous nature and how he is more like an animal than a man.
‘That masked thing like a monkey’
Jekyll states his clear belief that duality is present in everyone.
‘Man is not truly one, but two’
Jekyll uses a metaphor to show the effects of repressing his animal instincts.
‘My devil had long been caged he came out roaring’
Jekyll shows how most people are a mixture of both good and evil.
‘Both sides of me were in dead earnest’
Jekyll’s final words reveal how happiness cannot be achieved through crime and seeking pleasure - a very moral Victorian message.
‘I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.’
