My Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

'never lighted by a smile’

Utterson serious

‘lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable’

List describing Utterson

‘he was austere with himself’

Utterson’s self conrol

‘drank gin…to mortify a taste for vintages’

Utterson’s self control

‘the last good influence in the lives of down-going men’

Utterson is a model person

‘coming home from some place at the end of the world’

Enfield’s unprincipled side+mystery and tension

‘Street after street…street after street’

Sibilance is sinister and creates fear

‘trampled calmly’

Juxtaposition shows unhuman nature of Hyde

‘Like some damned Juggernaut’

Simile compares Hyde to some unhuman creature

‘Gave me one look so ugly it brought the sweat out of me like running’

Hyde’s physical deformity creates a reaction

‘I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him’

Hyde’s evil spreads (doctor)

‘Women were as wild as harpies’

Hyde’s evil spreads (women)

‘Really like Satan’

Hyde goes against religious morals

‘The very pink of proprieties’

Jekyll’s good status

‘He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity’

Victorian ideas of physiognomy

‘He began to go wrong, wrong in mind’

Lanyon describes Jekyll’s evil growing

‘Unscientific balderdash’

Lanyon doesn’t like Jekyll’s dabbling with transcendental medicines

‘The figure…haunted the lawyer all night’

Hyde is like a ghost

‘Crush a child and leave her screaming’

Ruthlessness of Hyde- child makes it worse

‘That human Juggernaut’

Hyde is almost not human

‘Enslaved’

Hyde is all he can think about

‘Had no face’ x2

Unknowable nature of Hyde

‘Without bowels of mercy’

Hyde is purely evil

‘A spirit of enduring hatred’

Something that isn’t tangible, but is evil

‘Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath’

Hyde is like a snake

‘Snarled aloud into a savage laugh’

Hyde is unpredictable and beast-like

‘Was pale and dwarfish’

Hyde isn’t physically strong

‘If I ever read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is that of your new friend’

Religious imagery shows Hyde’s evil is visible

‘Hide-bound pedant’

Jekyll says Lanyon doesn’t know the importance of what he’s doing

‘The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to its very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes’

Jekyll’s reaction after hearing Hyde mentioned

‘You know me: I am a man to be trusted’

Utterson shows his good, reliable nature

‘the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde’

Jekyll irony shows his ignorance- modern allegory to addiction

‘She was romantically given’

Maid’s carefree and happy nature

‘brilliantly lit by the full moon’

Gothic imagery- Hyde is like a werewolf

‘aged and beautiful gentleman’

Carew’s admiration from physiognomy- opposite of Hyde

‘A very pretty manner of politeness’

Carew is also kind in nature

‘The moon shone on his face’

Carew’s innocence

‘ill contained impatience’

Hyde’s evil is hard to suppress

‘A great flame of anger’

Metaphor shows the extent of anger within Hyde

‘With ape-like fury’

Simile shows the atavistic nature of Hyde

‘The bones were audibly shattered’

Sound imagery paints a vivid, horrific picture of the Carew murder

‘The maid fainted’

Changes from romantic- shows the physical effect of Hyde’s evil

‘A purse and a gold watch were found upon the victim’

Hyde’s evil is the only reason for the murder

‘I swear to God’ x2

Jekyll insists that Hyde won’t be seen again- further irony

‘The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away’

Vivid, gothic imagery shows the extent of the effect of Jekyll on Lanyon

‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers as well’

Duality of Jekyll

‘Taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien’

Shows Jekyll’s inwardly nature, even though he is outwardly alright

‘Like some disconsolate prisoner’

Jekyll has been trapped by Hyde

‘The smile was struck out from his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair’

Transformation from Jekyll to Hyde completely changes him

‘God forgive us’ x2

The transformation is inherently evil

‘a wild, cold, seasonable night of March’

Weather characterized by a chilling, untamed, and fittingly timed evening in the month of March.

‘London so deserted’

Gothic motif of isolation

‘The housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering’

Hyde’s terror affected everyone

‘Bless God! It’s Mr Utterson’

Utterson is the saviour and always a trustworthy character

‘Serve me, my dear Lanyon, and save…’

Interrupted ending of Jekyll’s letter creates suspense

‘Dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable’

Lanyon’s repulstion to something which should be funny shows Hyde’s immense evil

‘you who have derided your superiors’

Hyde’s ego and sense of superiority over others

‘he reeled, staggered, clutched’

The process of the transformation is horrible

‘The features seemed to melt and alter’

Supernatural, unknowable process of the transformation

‘O God’ x2, ‘again and again’

The evil of the transformation requires God

‘like a man restored from death’

Hyde being compared to death shows he is pure evil

‘imperious desire to have the reputation of seriousness’

Jekyll is fed up with having to be a gentleman

‘profound duplicity of life’

Two sides to life

‘man is not truly one but truly two’

Key duality quotation

‘a grinding in the bones’

Painful process of transformation

‘sold a slave to my original evil’

Hyde’s complete control over Jekyll

‘delighted me like wine’

Transformation is addictive like alcohol

‘all human beings…are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil

Shows Hyde is not human and characterises his evil

‘I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end’

Gradual decline of Jekyll