jekyll and hyde quotes PROPER

Science and Curiosity

“The drug… was neither diabolical nor divine.” - Jekyll Chapter 10: duality, immorality of science, curiosity leading to his discoveries

“Disgustful curiosity” - Lanyon Chapter 9: ashamed of his curiosity, knows it leads to bad things

“Some bland old bird… is knocked on the head… and the family have to change their name” - Enfield Chapter 1: foreshadowing and discouraging curiosity into people’s business

“I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend” - Jekyll Chapter 10: science isn’t at fault → Jekyll’s corruption and bad nature is

“Hide-bound pedant” - Jekyll Chapter 3: hide-bound = unwilling to change due to tradition/convention and Jekyll sees this as a bad thing → wants to make new discoveries etc.

“Unscientific balderdash” - Lanyon Chapter 2: Lanyon is a ‘rule follower’ → doesn’t ‘branch out’ + sees Jekyll’s discoveries as invalid

“It is more than 10 years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me” - Lanyon Chapter 2: sees Jekyll’s science as immature and against morality → doesn’t consider moral implications

“His imagination… was engaged, or rather enslaved” - about Utterson Chapter 2: shows Hyde’s corruption as Utterson usually isn’t curious and stays out of people’s business but Hyde causes him to go against his nature

Appearance & Reality

“A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast” - about Jekyll Chapter 3: shows that under his societally-acceptable facade, there are tells of →  links to physiognomy

“Large, firm, white and comely” v “Lean, corded… shaded with a swart growth of hair” - Jekyll v Hyde’s hands Chapter 10: their hands match how they’re perceived by others → Jekyll’s hands have duality e.g firm could be assured and welcoming or threatening whereas Hyde’s hands are fully ‘evil’ - corded often describes something inhuman and the hair links him to primitive humans, savagery → Jekyll both good and bad whereas Hyde fully bad → represents their personalities

“Will you let me see your face?” - Utterson Chapter 2: physiognomy links → can tell a person’s personality from their face → Utterson believes he will see whether Hyde’s evil or not from his face

“Something downright detestable [about his appearance]” - Enfield Chapter 1: physiognomy → makes the reader have the opinion that there’s something wrong morally with Hyde due to physiognomy

“Satan’s signature upon a face” - Utterson Chapter 2: devil/religious links → very impactful to readers at the time due to Victorian society’s strong religious links → Hyde’s face shows his personality/morality and soul - morally depraved

“Something troglodytic” - Utterson Chapter 2: unevolved, fears of degeneration → shows an earlier human/primitive, uncontrolled violence

Friendship

Duality

“rugged countenance” (utterson) v “smooth faced” (jekyll) chapter 1& 3

“bore... the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence” (back of jekyll’s house) v “wore a great air of wealth and comfort” (front of jekyll’s house) chapter 1 & 2

"Large, handsome face." (jekyll) v "Pale and dwarfish." (hyde) chapter 3 & 2

“Good shone upon the countenance of.. one, evil was written… on the face of the other.” chapter 10

"all human beings… are commingled out of good and evil." chapter 10

"man is not truly one, but truly two." chapter 10

"I learned to recognise the… primitive duality of man." chapter 10

“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” chapter 10

“So profound a double dealer.” chapter 10

Civilisation & Savagery

“Ape-like fury” chapter 4

“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut” chapter 1

“Something troglodytic” chapter 2

“The man seems hardly human” chapter 2

“A very pretty manner of politeness” chapter 4 (Carew)