Quotes Flashcards
Utterson is the ideal confidante so we hear others reveal emotions and secrets to him
“i trust you before any other man alive”
“For the hands of GJ Utterson alone”
“Indeed, i am very glad to see you”
Utterson embodies Victorian respectability
“He was austere with himself”
“appalled with their own riot”
“Your master would be far from pleased”
Utterson’s constancy makes him a credible witness/ guide
“the last good influence in the lives of down going men”
“He was surprised at his friends selfishness”
Through Jekyll, Stevenson explores Victorian concepts of reputation and friendship
“You are one of my oldest friends”
“If you fail me tonight i am lost”
“Inseparable friends”
Stevenson used Jekyll to explore the duality of human nature
“man is not truly one but truly two”
“the two natures that confided in the field of my consciousness”
Stevenson uses Jekyll to explore how victorian men were seen as more respectable with secrecy
“the door was shut against the lawyer”
“Neither bell nor knocker”
“back door”
Hyde’s crimes display a horrifying degree of sexual motivation
“light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures”
“I was conscious of… a current of disordered sensual images”
“tasting delight from every blow”
“my lust of evil gratified and stimulated”
Hydes weaknesses are displayed using feminine attributes
“a murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
“weeping like a woman or lost soul”
“Edward Hyde was so much smaller, lighter”
Stevenson uses Christian concepts of temptation and damnation to explore Hyde’s corruption of Jekyll
“i am the chief of sinners, i am the chief of sufferers also”
“i bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end”
“I began to be tortured with throes and longings”
Lanyon is used as a direct comparison against Jekyll
L describes J science as “unscientific balderdash”
“a hearty, healthy, dapper red faced gentleman” contrasts to hyde “not easy to describe”
Stevenson warns the reader of the dangers of intense scientific curiosity using Lanyon
“Your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan”
“I have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before i see the end”
Stevenson uses the physical deterioration of Lanyon as an allegory/meaning of moral and spiritual decline
“death warrant legibly written upon his face” 6
“his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older” 6
“an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below”
Secrecy is represented by mr Hyde’s physical looks similar to how Lanyons state is shown by his physical well-being
“not easy to describe”
“there is something wrong with his appearance”
“down right detestable”
Secrecy throughout the Novella explores the secrets of Victorian Gentlemen’s second life
“man is not truly one but truly two”
“the two natures the contented in the feild of my consciousness”
“double dose” “double dealer”
The use of symbolism of the door and windows reinforces the sinister secret nature in the Novella
“one of the three windows…like some disconsolate prisoner”
“no window, nothing but a door on the lower story” - foreshadowing of Jekylls death being only one way out -
“equipped with neither bell nor knocker”
“back door”
