Key Quotations in Jekyll & Hyde Flashcards
What quotation shows what Enfield’s description of Hyde was when speaking to Utterson?
“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.”
What quotation shows that Utterson is persistent in his quest to uncover the true reality of Mr Hyde?
“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
What quotation shows Hyde’s response to Utterson referring to their mutual friends?
“Snarled into a savage laugh”
What quotation shows that Stevenson is alluding to the origin of the sin theory?
“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath”
What quotation emphasises Hyde callous side?
“Cried with a flush of anger”
What quotation shows Hyde’s appearance differs from a normal stereotypical gentleman in the Victorian era?
“Pale and dwarfish; giving an impression of deformity”
What quotation shows Utterson’s reaction to the evil coming out of Hyde?
“Seems hardly human… something troglodytic”
What quotation symbolises Hyde as the devil?
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
What quotation shows Hyde’s cruelty and depicts the theme of fear in chapter 1?
“Trampling calmly over the child’s body”
What quotation shows that Hyde believes he is a worthy gentleman?
“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene”
What quotation emphasises Hyde enormous size and destructiveness?
“Damned Juggernaut… like Satan”
What quotation shows a paradox that a “…….” can be described as a “juggernaut”?
“Little man” “Juggernaut”
What quotation shows that Medical staff hated Hyde?
“Desire to kill him”
What quotation shows the state Sawbones saw the young girl in?
“Sick and white”
What quotation refers to what Hyde had when he killed Sir Danvers Carew?
“Ape-like fury”
What quotation shows what Lanyon has over Dr Jekyll?
“Disgustful curiosity”
What quotation shows Stevenson uses animalistic references when referring to Hyde?
“Creature”
What quotation shows what Jekyll refers Dr Lanyon as?
“Pedant”
What quotation shows how easy it is for Hyde and Jekyll to transform?
“The moment i choose i can be rid of Hyde”
What quotation, in chapter 10, shows that everyone has a dual nature?
“Man is not truly one but two”
What quotation shows that Jekyll tells Utterson he doesn’t want to see Hyde?
“I will never set eyes on him again”
What quotation shows that Jekyll often uses imagery relating to the Devil and to animals to talk about Hyde?
“My devil had long been caged he came out roaring”
What quotation uses repetition to exaggerate how deformed Hyde is?
“There is something wrong with his appearance something displeasing, something downright detestable”
What quotation shows the damage done to Sir Danvers Carew by Hyde?
“The bones were audibly shattered”
What quotation shows what Lanyon refers to Jekyll’s work as?
“Such unscientific balderdash”
What quotation shows how Hyde had borne himself to the lawyer?
“murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
What quotation shows that Jekyll is a good character?
“every mark of capacity and kindness”
What quotation is used about the weather that represents the theme of suppression/secrecy?
“fog rolled over”
What quotation shows that Lanyon regards Jekyll as dead?
“I regard [Jekyll] as dead”
What quotation, from Jekyll, shows duality, in terms of sin&suffering?
“I am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of sufferers”
What quotation shows that Jekyll is trapped by Hyde?
“disconsolate prisoner”
What quotation shows that transformation is evil and not of this world?
“stagger the unbelief of Satan”
What quotation shows what Jekyll thought of Hyde (chapter 10)?
“Edward Hyde was pure evil”
What quotation shows that Jekyll was the innocent partner in the transformation?
“It was Hyde alone that was guilty”
What quotations shows that stevenson uses objective correlative to represent jekyll’s internal state? (even though the sky is bright, jekyll’s personal space is dark)
“very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight”
What quotation shows that jekyll leads a double life to appear respectable while satisfying his desires in secret?
“stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life”
What quotation shows that jekyll’s scientific interests focus on supernatural or spiritual aspects?
“led wholly towards the mystic and transcendental”
What quotation, from lanyon, shows that everyone finds hyde immediately repulsive but can’t say exactly what is wrong about the way he looks?
“there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature”
What quotation shows that hyde has atavistic characteristics?
“digging amongst the crates”
What quotation shows that Utterson is a loyal and dependable gentleman?
“i would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself”
What quotation shows what lanyon was like before he witnessed the transformation?
“a hearty, healthy, dapped, red faced gentleman”
What quotation shows what the effect the transformation had on lanyon?
“noticeably older, paler and haggard”
What quotation shows that jekyll feels liberated by hyde?
“sold as a slave to my original evil”
What quotation shows that hyde differences from just being a normal, if ugly person?
“child of hell”
Which quotation includes an allusion, to vengeful mythical creatures, which communicates that the women that were around hyde after he trampled on the girl were furious?
“as wild as harpies”
What quotation shows that jekyll tried to hide the sinful side of himself y repressing one side of his personality?
“i concealed my pleasures/i regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame”
