key key quotes - Jekyll and Hyde

though he enjoyed fine theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years

13 - Utterson - shows repressive Victorian society

the well-known man about town

14- describing Enfield - the polar opposite to Utterson (who is very repressed), Enfield seems to be giving in to his pleasures, despite their differences they are still good friends - hypocrisy??

the street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the week days

15 - the setting (London) even has duality - it is two things at once

some place at the end of the world, about three o' clock of a black winter morning

17 - makes it unclear what Enfield was doing at this time of night in the dark, makes you fear society because the upper class should be respectable

trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground

17 - the oxymoron shows duality and

the onomatopoeia makes a clearer image of what is happening

damned Juggernaut

17 - racial other

turn sick and white with the desire to kill him

18 - all who see him want to kill him and are disturbed - the monosyllabic words add to the drama and tension of the phrase as it creates emphasis and foreboding

name you figure

19 - Enfield to Hyde - Utterson is hypocritical as he thinks Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll yet he tries to blackmail Hyde

name that I can't mention

19 - Enfield about Jekyll- he is trying to keep up Jekyll's reputation and he himself doesn't want to relate the two people together

pink of the proprieties

20 - describing Jekyll - a Victorian euphemism to say he is the embodiment of proper behaviour and morals

the more it looks like Queer street, the less I ask

21 - Enfield - avoids asking questions because it could lead to learning uncomfortable truths about the upper class and break up the hegemonic society

You are sure he used a key?

23 - presents a much more intimate relationship between Jekyll and Hyde

there he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it

26 - Utterson - secrets withing secrets

unscientific balderdash

29 - Lanyon - he initially dismisses Jekyll's experiments but later he becomes curious and that leads to his downfall

Damon and Pythias

29 - allusions to Greek mythology

It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind

30 - Utterson cannot sleep because he is so obsessed with Hyde

or rather enslaved

30 - Utterson - he is enslaved by Hyde

his friend's strange preference or bondage

31 - Utterson about Jekyll - homosexuality??

Mr Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops

32 - his obsession with Hyde is degrading him to become a ghost-like, dead figure

by all light and at all hours

32 - Utterson - his obsession with Hyde

the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all around

32 - personification/zoomorphism of London as an animal

Soho

34 - home of Hyde - the rougher and poorer part of London

I do not think you would have lied

35 - Hyde to Utterson - lawyers are supposed to be respectable and not lie

the other snarled aloud

35 - Hyde - zoomorphism

murderous mixture of timidity and boldness

36 - Hyde - use of alliteration emphases it, duality

hardly human

36 - about Hyde

something troglodytic

36 - Hyde - atavism - the fear that humans will de-evolve, on the origins of species

the pleasantest house in London

37 - Jekyll's house - the use of the superlative makes it more scary that Hyde has infiltrated

I am a man to be trusted

44 - Utterson - hypocrisy

I make no doubt I can get you out of it

44 - Utterson to Jekyll - he is willing to go against the law as a lawyer to protect Jekyll's repututation

good of you

44 - Jekyll to Utterson - repeated twice showing his duality

a fog rolled over the city

47 - the weather will hide the awful deeds done by the upper class, reflects the dark moral of killing someone

great flame of anger

48 - Hyde killing Carew - satanic imagery

clubbed him to the earth

48 - Hyde killing Carew - club is the tool used by cavemen

with ape-like fury

48 - Hyde - Darwin

storm of blows

49 - Hyde killing Carew - a tempestuous weather - violent

audibly shattered

49 - Hyde killing Carew - onomatopoeic language creates a clearer more visceral image

at the horror of these sights and sounds

49 - sibilance creates a clearer picture

had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

49 - metaphor for breaking under the repressive Victorian society, or duality as it is broken in the middle

a chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven

51 - the pall is suffocating heaven, religion is dead, the city has died

charging and routing these embattled vapours and to combat this re-invasion

51 - marshal imagery, London is under attack, Hyde as a racial other

Henry Jekyll's favourite

52 - homosexuality

clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out;

53 - clothes resemble the shape of a body, the pockets have been reversed like Jekyll is reversed as Hyde

foggy cupola

57 - Jekyll's lab - the light from above cannot reach this place as it is so morally dark

even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly;

58 - creates a gothic atmosphere, the fog is so thick it creates a further sense of privacy, reflects the inability to uncover the truth

it put a better colour on the intimacy

60 - Utterson definitely thought Jekyll and Hyde had a homosexual relationship

the lamps glimmered like carbuncles

62 - London itself is diseased

the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped

64 - duality - they are similar yet different

locked the note away

65 -Jekyll - he is hiding it away and does not do anything about it despite knowing the connection between Jekyll and Hyde, he chooses to preserve his reputation making him complicit in the actions of Hyde

the rosy man had grown pale

68 - Lanyon - complete change of appearance

we should be more glad to get away

69 - Lanyon - what he has seen is so horrific that he wants to die

I wish to hear no more of Dr Jekyll

69 - Lanyon - the monosyllabic language shows how emphatically he has severed his link with Jekyll

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers

71 - Jekyll - makes you feel sympathy for Jekyll

and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe

73 - Utterson - he has been so obsessed with finding out the secret yet now he has all the answers he locks them away, he supresses his curiosity because it is a bad thing in Victorian society, he respects the wishes of his friend Lanyon (friendship)

confined himself to the cabinet over the laboratory

73 - Jekyll - he is clearly in a bad state yet Utterson does not help him at all

The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset

75 - before the incident at the window - the premature twilight reflects that Jekyll has prematurely ended his life because has taken the potion,

god (the representation of salvation) is unable to reach them

the middle of the three windows was half-way open

76 - he is about to turn into Hyde so he is sort of like half Hyde, half Jekyll - duality

disconsolate prisoner

76 - Jekyll - he is imprisoned in both body and life, society is oppressive and imprisons him so he becomes Hyde to have some freedom but that also imprisons him because he is unable to control Hyde

God forgive us, God forgive us

77 - Utterson - they just witnessed something so against god and so horrifying that they beg for forgiveness for simply witnessing it - the creation of life results in punishment

and walked on once more in silence

77 - Enfield - they did not go to someone who might be able to help Jekyll because they care more about respecting his reputation than helping him

the wind made talking difficult

81 - Hyde has silenced people

and the beetles were leaping on the floor

84 - describing Jekyll's laboratory - the room is filled with unpleasantness

why had he a mask upon his face? and that thing in the mask

87 - Hyde - colonial other, the British empire began to exhibit more and more art from other cultures, such as African masks, much of the art on these masks seemed animalistic to the Victorians

why did he cry out like a rat

87 - Hyde - zoomorphism, and presented as disgusting and spreading disease/infecting London - racial other - disease was spread from other countries

like a monkey jumped

90 - Hyde - Darwinism and zoomorphism

things laid out for tea

94 - tea comes from India yet is considered a very British thing but even the tea is under threat from this racial other, the superiority of Britain is under threat

clothes of the doctor's bigness

94 - Hyde is wearing Jekyll's clothes, could suggest a homosexual relationship,

he is wearing the respectable clothes of Jekyll suggesting he is trying to invade the hegemonic society from the inside

physiognomy - appearance tells us about a person's character

phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels

94 - the kernels are cyanide - suicide??

self-destroyer

94 - Utterson about Hyde - suicide is very against god, god gave you life it is not right to take it away yourself, it was illegal and was the ultimate breaking of Victorian morality

Jekyll may be trying to kill Hyde but when he kills Hyde the id, Jekyll the ego/superego is unable to survive, you cannot get rid of one and keep the other

annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies

97 - Hyde - he is opposite to all Victorian morals

my troubles will roll away like a story that is told

105 - Jekyll - beliefs that even if he dies he will be resurrected, he ha a god-complex and thinks that he will come back to life like Christ did - Biblical allusions

the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground

109 - Lanyon's confession about Hyde - clothes were a symbol of class and respectability

or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?

113 - Jekyll to Lanyon - scientific hubris, new sciences are opposing religion

by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan

113 - the force of tempting Lanyon is satanic, curiosity goes against religion, the story of Adam and Eve

under the seal of our profession

113 - Jekyll to Lanyon - they are doctors and are supposed to be trustworthy and help people they prioritize the hegemony

he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table

114 - Jekyll turning into Hyde in front of Lanyon - the use of the tricolon emphasises the horror at seeing this take place

like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll

114 - Jesus Christ was resurrected as well, he has created life without god, he is punished with his loss of life (so is Lanyon for merely witnessing it

i concealed my pleasures

117 - Jekyll - the repressive nature of Victorian society, makes you feel sympathy for him

i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life

117 - Jekyll - duality

hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame

117 - Jekyll - had to conceal his pleasures, was not allowed to be himself due to the pressure of being a upper class gentlemen

man is not truly one but two

118 - Jekyll - duality, universal noun, applies to everyone

in the agonised womb of consciousness

120 - Jekyll describing living with both his dual persons in his mind - living like that is painful, we start to feel sympathy for him

these polar twins

120 - describing Jekyll and Hyde - the oxymoron presents them as similar yet the opposite of one another at the same time

a solution to the bonds of obligation

122 - Jekyll - Hyde was his way out of the repressive society

to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked

122 - Jekyll about Hyde - if he is so wicked it creates fear is people knowing he is roaming the streets of London

a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea

122 - Jekyll - the effects seem similar to that of drugs

wherein the constellations looked down upon me

123 - Jekyll believes that even the stars are impressed by his ability to create life

and my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified,

126 - Jekyll about when he was Hyde

until I fell into slavery

126 - Jekyll - enslaved to the drug

spring headlong into the sea of liberty

127 - jekyll - he is doing it knowledgably, the word headlong suggests he is intentionally deciding to be this violent other,

when you jump into a sea there is a chance of drowning

a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion would be Henry Jekyll

127 - Jekyll - he is using his own reputation and status to commit crimes without fear of prosecution, it is scary to think that the respectable members of society would want to be hypocritical and break the law

It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty

128 - Jekyll - his perspective is subjective, he makes himself seem more innocent and makes the reader feel some sympathy for him but he is actively the one who takes the potion

and thus his conscience slumbered

128 - Jekyll - he believes himself innocent at the hands of Hyde, makes us feel some sympathy for him

Jekyll's hand is "white" yet Hyde's is described as having a "ducky pallor" with "a smart growth of hair"

130 - Hyde is a racial other - Jekyll is using his hands to perform surgeries but the use of his hands become monstrous as Hyde, killing an innocent girl and Carew - shows the hypocritical nature of their society

my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

135 - if you repress your pleasures they will come out worse and more violent

I find it in my heart to pity him

147 - Jekyll about Hyde - even Jekyll sympathises with him, we start to him as well