The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Quotes Flashcards
“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” - Utterson
- Christian context of the novel
- Utterson immediately has a dual nature - he is a respectable lawyer but he surrounds himself with men of a dual nature
“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut” - Enfield
- Christian context of novel
- Christianity puts up a false façade because we have to cover up our sins
“the child was not much the worse” - Enfield
- Hyde hasn’t caused massive damage
- He is first believed to be vile and monstrous but it’s ironic as he is small and done not much harm
“sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill”- Enfield
- Christian readers believed that there’s something so terribly evil and wrong with Hyde that any right thinking person wants to destroy him
- Stevenson was atheist - who was more evil? Hyde or Enfield and the doctor who want to murder him?
“we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child’s family” - Enfield
- Hyde was blackmailed for a fortune by Enfield and the doctor
- Duality straight away in the play
“I read Satan’s signature upon [Hyde’s] face” - Utterson
- Hyde is so evil it’s like Satan himself created him
- “I read” suggesting its a myth and that you can’t look at someone’s face and tell whether they were good or evil
“The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” - Jekyll
- His hamartia as he can’t which is wrong as he is consumed by Hyde leading to his death
“With ape like fury… the bones were audibly shattered” - narrator
- Darwin’s theory of evolution
- Fear of crime with the bones “shattered”
- Readers entertained by the things they were scared of - calling them hypocrites
“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer”- Utterson
- Hypocrisy/duality in Utterson - he takes the letter and puts it in his safe where it stays
“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven” - narrator
- “Chocolate” something desirable so that Londoners can carry on being corrupt
- Sin covering goodness
- Londoners prefer to live in a state of sin as long as they present a facade that is not sinful
“the drowned city” - narrator
- Great flood in the Bible. God flooded the earth to punish sin
- Metaphor for what should happen to this city
“He must have raged to see himself displaced; and he has not destroyed the document” - Utterson
- Jekyll changed the will to give the money from Hyde to Utterson
- Hyde knew Utterson was corrupt and wanted his science to live on for Jekyll to get credit
- However, Utterson hides all of this because if he exposes this, all of Jekyll’s fortune would be part of a scandal. He inherits Jekyll’s wealth with no one thinking worse of him
“a new province of knowledge… fame and power… stagger the unbelief of Satan” - Jekyll
- Hyde tempts Lanyon to watch him transform to Jekyll just like the Satan tempted Jesus
- Lanyon chooses to stay and he ends up seeing that Jekyll’s science is true and how powerful it is
“man is not truly one, but truly two” - Jekyll
- Good and evil
- Duality of man
“soon began to turn monstrous” / “dwarf”
- Irony that Jekyll is symbolically massive and Hyde is symbolically small
- Hyde so powerful his evil is monstrous
- Contrast with Hyde “dwarf” like suggesting Jekyll is lying - Jekyll with monstrous desires
“love of life” - Jekyll
- Stevenson implying that following Victorian society and Christian rules are ways of getting rid of our love of life
- Only Hyde had a love of life because he didn’t follow these rules
Thesis statement
Priestley constructs Gerald to represent the class of capitalist men who damage society by exploiting the working class. He also represents the sexual exploitation of poor and privileged women in society, through his relationship with Eva and Sheila. Finally, he explains why men of this class refused to learn the lessons of world war one, and repeated the “fire and blood and anguish” in world war two.
