macbeth and jekyll & hyde quotes

“stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”

• personification gives stars human ability to conceal

• Macbeth wants nature to cover his evil intentions

• metaphor

• “light” = goodness and truth

• “black and deep desires” ambition to commit regicide to seize power

“with all great neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands”

• guilt

• Allusion Neptune ocean isn’t enough to clean his hands

• loss of morality and purity

• contrast between blood and water

• blood on hand is a metaphor for guilt

“O full of scorpion in my mind, dear wife”

• metaphor M compares his mind to scorpions

• scorpion symbolises: obsession, danger thoughts, this shows his phycological instability

• guilt- he is poisoned by fear and ambition

• ambition- need to secure his power through violence and aggression

“fruitless crown […] barren sceptre”

• symbolism

• “crown + sceptre” connotes rulership

• “fruitless + barren” connotes emptiness/futility

• Foreshadows destruction of Scotland which

• ambition and power

“unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top- full of direst cruelty”

• metaphor

• removal of stereotypically feminine qualities

• sacrificing her humanity for Macbeth’s to become powerful.

• uses supernatural to be to control LM and M but reveals it an illusion.

• ambition, supernatural, power

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath”

• simile Macbeths appearance to a harmless flower

• Metaphor- serpent is a biblical symbol from Adam and eve story

• represents cunning, betrayal, deceptive

• juxtaposition contrast between flower= innocence and serpent = evil

“ I would, while it was smiling in my face…have dashed the brains out”

• hyperbole- extreme exaggeration highlights her absolute devotion to ambition and manipulation.

• contrast between nurturing a baby by love and flipping it into violence and merciless

• ruthlessness and transgression

“all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

• hyperbole

• exaggeration to mask immorality by spraying innocence

• parallel to Macbeths quote “Neptune ocean”

• guilt

“like some disconsolate prisoner”

• simile trapped and hopeless, suggesting he’s mentally and emotionally imprisoned.

• he is mentally and physically imprisoned by Hyde

• “Disconsolate” conveys utter despair, hinting at remorse for the crimes committed as Hyde.

“There came a blackness about his eyes”

• visual image of corruption or the spread of evil

• eye suggests window of soul so this blackness has been overtaken by Hyde

• blackness shows the beginning of Hyde corrupting his morality.

“my devil had been longed caged, he came out roaring”

• metaphor and animalistic imagery

• Jekyll’s repressed evil nature is embodied by Mr Hyde

• “Caged” and “roaring” evoke the image of a wild animal, suggesting that Hyde is dangerous and primal.

‘sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought … braced and delighted me like wine’

• original evil,” he may be referring to the idea that evil lives inside every human from birth — an idea known He feels that this dark side of himself was always there, waiting to be let out.

• The wine simile emphasizes how pleasure can mask danger — he enjoys evil before it destroys him.

“It was like some damned juggernaut”

• simile- compares Hyde to an unstoppable force

• The word “damned” adds a sense of evil, hellishness, and moral disgust

• Hyde is inhuman, violent, and dangerously powerful.

“ape-like Fury”

• simile

• animalistic imagery/ dehumanisation

• compares Hyde’s rage to an animal

• “Ape” links Hyde to Darwinian ideas of evolution—implying a regression to a savage, pre-human state.

“that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”

• to a monkey, suggesting something animalistic, agile, and unnatural.

• Suggests primal behaviour, linking Hyde to Darwinian fears of degeneration

• “thing” connotes not a person. This strips him of humanity, reinforcing the idea that Hyde is a monstrous manifestation of Jekyll’s dark side.

“Satan's signature upon a face”

• metaphor

• Hyde’s appearance is so evil it’s as if Satan himself has signed or claimed ownership of him.

• Hyde is not just morally corrupt, but spiritually damned.

• Hyde is connected to Satan

• Hyde is demonic, not just a criminal