JEKYLL AND HYDE QUOTES

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

“Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound” - Jekyll Chapter 10 → his duality makes him unable to find harmony in his environment, suggests that Jekyll marks duality as a curse rather than part of the human condition

“Murderous mix of timidity and boldness” - Utterson thoughts Chapter 2 → duality as a danger

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

“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

“Evil had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“Something eminently human beaconed from his eye” - about Utterson Chapter 1

“A certain sinister block of building” - back of Jekyll’s house Chapter 1, “Wore a great air of wealth and comfort” - Jekyll’s house Chapter 2

“Like a district of some city in a nightmare” - Soho Chapter 4, “Furnished with luxury and good taste” - inside of Hyde’s house Chapter 4

Friendship

“I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” - Utterson Chapter 1

“The last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - about Utterson Chapter 1

“A hide-bound pedant…. I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon” - Jekyll Chapter 3

“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” - Utterson Chapter 5

“The one I regard as dead” - Lanyon Chapter 6

“Lanyon, my life, my honour, my reason, are all at your mercy” - Jekyll Chapter 9

“I cannot remember… any break in our affection” - Jekyll to Lanyon Chapter 9

Civilisation & Savagery

“Ape-like fury” - about Hyde Chapter 4

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

“Something troglodytic” - Enfield Chapter 2 (AVATISM = reverting to a former evolution→ degeneration)

“The man seems hardly human” - Utterson Chapter 2

“A very pretty manner of politeness” - about Carew Chapter 4

“He was austere with himself” - about Utterson Chapter 1 (austere = strict, Victorian Ideal, REPRESSED)

“Some bland old bird… is knocked on the head… and the family have to change their name” - Enfield Chapter 1

“And aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair” - about Carew Chapter 4

“Innocent and old-world kindness of disposition” - about Carew Chapter 4 (disposition = character trait)

“Drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages” - about Utterson Chapter 1 (REPRESSED)

Human Condition

“Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” chapter 10

“Those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature” chapter 10

“Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound” - Jekyll Chapter 10 → his duality makes him unable to find harmony in his environment, suggests that Jekyll marks duality as a curse rather than part of the human condition

Good and Evil

“I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend” (Jekyll being evil when taking potion made Hyde evil instead of really good) - Jekyll Chapter 10

“The drug… was neither diabolical nor divine” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“Those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” - Jekyll Chapter 10

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

“Something eminently human beaconed from his eye” - about Utterson Chapter 1

“Last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - about Utterson Chapter 1 → though a good, moral character, Utterson often still associates with men he maybe shouldn’t due to a lack of care about what others think

“Trampled calmly over the [child] and left her screaming” - Enfield Chapter 1 → Hyde here is not evil yet and is potentially less so than the extortionate Enfield and Doctor as he commits a violent action, not out of evilness but out of indifference to the child → however, the contrast between the violence of “trampled” and “calmly” suggests Hyde has an inhumane lack of care for others and lack of value for life and this establishes him as evil. Also, having Hyde’s ‘victim’ here be a child makes it more shocking to readers as he ‘attacks’ a defenceless, innocent child → this draws out hatred for Hyde

“Like some damned juggernaut” - Enfield Chapter 1 → Hyde is inhuman (juggernaut = ‘relentless force’)

“Carrying it off… really like Satan” - Enfield Chapter 1

“Snarled aloud into a savage laugh” - about Hyde Chapter 2

“Satan’s signature upon a face” - Utterson Chapter 2

“Transfigures its clay continent” - Utterson Chapter 2 → physiognomy

“Great flame of anger” “Broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth” - about Hyde Chapter 4

“Ape like fury” - about Hyde Chapter 4

“More wicked; tenfold more wicked” - Jekyll Chapter 10 - Hyde is “pure evil” but suggests Jekyll was already evil - maybe others in Victorian society are also

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“That child of Hell had nothing human” - Jekyll Chapter 10 → won’t call Hyde ‘I’ as he now feels guilt and regret/shame for his crimes so doesn’t want to be associated with Hyde who is now completely monstrous and inhuman

Secrecy

“[Hyde] must have secrets of his own; black secrets” - Utterson Chapter 2

“A man who could afford to laugh at suspicion would be Henry Jekyll” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“A large, well-made, smooth-faced man… with something of a slyish cast” - about Jekyll Chapter 3

“The large, handsome face of Doctor Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes” - about Jekyll Chapter 3

“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven” - about London Chapter 4 (post Carew murder) pathetic fallacy → fog hides the streets like Jekyll does his secrets → pall = fog OR funeral cloth, connotations of death

“Showed no window, nothing but a door” - about back of Jekyll’s house Chapter 1

“Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath” - about Hyde Chapter 2 → Hyde shows desire to hide himself - links to secrecy - as he shrinks back from Utterson and is scared to see him

Mask Imagery/Motif:

• “Wore a great air of wealth and comfort”

• “Wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public”

• “It seemed only by a great effort… that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll”

• “If it was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?” - Poole Chapter 8 → of all the masks Jekyll assumes, the real mask is the least convincing/the flimsiest as Poole isn’t fooled. This suggests Jekyll is, as he says, “radically both” and is isn’t more Jekyll or Hyde

Reputation

“The very pink of the proprieties” “One of your fellows who do what they call good” - Enfield Chapter 1 → Jekyll has a very good reputation though he is secretly disreputable and dishonourable

“A man who could afford to laugh at suspicion would be Henry Jekyll” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“Wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public” - Jekyll Chapter 10

“Last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - about Utterson Chapter 1 → though a good, moral character, Utterson often still associates with men he maybe shouldn’t due to a lack of care about what others think

“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” - Utterson Chapter 1 → shows he doesn’t interfere with people’s business and disregards reputation

“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene” - Hyde Chapter 1 → Hyde still carries the outward appearance of being ‘gentlemanly’ and reputable despite his evil - shows reputation’s importance in victorian society

Setting

“Showed no windows, nothing but a door” - back of Jekyll’s house Chapter 1 → introduces us to the evils of Hyde and theme of duality and deceptive appearances

“A certain sinister block of building” - back of Jekyll’s house Chapter 1 → introduces us to the evils of Hyde and theme of duality and deceptive appearances

“Wore a great air of wealth and comfort” - front of Jekyll’s house Chapter 2 → shows the appearances Jekyll puts up of respectability when he is truly a “double dealer”

“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven” - London Chapter 4 (post Carew murder) pathetic fallacy → fog hides the streets like Jekyll does his secrets → pall = fog OR funeral cloth, connotations of death

“Like a district of some city in a nightmare” - Soho Chapter 4 → Contrasts the luxury of Hyde’s house and also sets up for Hyde’s evil

“Furnished with luxury and good taste” - Hyde’s house interior Chapter 4 → Contrasts expectations of Hyde and furthers the book’s mystery, also suggests deception and links to Jekyll’s duality

“Full of premature twilight” - describing the courtyard outside Jekyll’s house Chapter 7 → liminal time (twilight) shows the duality and also marks that Jekyll/the being who is both Jekyll and Hyde is in a liminal space between Jekyll and Hyde before he decisively becomes Jekyll and Hyde after this transformation “the smile was struck out of his face… by an expression of such abject terror and despair” where he becomes stuck as Hyde

“A pale moon, lying on her back as if the wind had tilted her” - Chapter 8 → presents the chaos and foreshadows the unnatural/supernatural themes of this chapter as Poole and Utterson deal with Hyde and maybe suggests the power of Hyde overtaking Jekyll as he could be metaphorically the “pale moon” who is tilted by the “juggernaut” (a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force) of Hyde who is metaphorically “the wind”