English - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Duality of Human Nature

• Quote 1: "Man is not truly one, but truly two." (Jekyll, Chapter 10)
  - Quote 2: "I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth… that man is only a aggregate of disparate and twin identities." (Jekyll, Chapter 10)
  - Quote 3: "It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man." (Jekyll, Chapter 10)

Science vs. Religion & The Unnatural

• Quote 1: "Such unscientific balderdash." (Lanyon about Jekyll's experiments, Chapter 2)
  - Quote 2: "The compound changed now with a dark rolling translucency… at first half-seen, then lensing, then growing changing and wasting." (Description of the potion, Chapter 10)
  - Quote 3: "Such unhallowed terrors." (Description of Jekyll's laboratory work, Chapter 9)

Repression and Victorian Respectability

• Quote 1: "I concealed my pleasures." (Jekyll, Chapter 10)
  - Quote 2: "I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth… that concealment can be practiced." (Jekyll, Chapter 10)
  - Quote 3: "He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages." (Description of Utterson, Chapter 1)

Dr. Henry Jekyll

• Quote 1: "Man is not truly one, but truly two." (Chapter 10)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'truly two'. Analysis: Jekyll's core philosophical realization, justifying his dangerous experiments by arguing that splitting good from evil is natural.
• Quote 2: "I concealed my pleasures." (Chapter 10)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'concealed'. Analysis: The catalyst for his entire tragedy; double standards of Victorian morality forced his dual nature to fracture rather than integrate.
• Quote 3: "The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and there came a blackness about his eyes." (Chapter 3)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'blackness about his eyes'. Analysis: Somatic foreshadowing; physical corruption bleeds outward from Hyde into Jekyll long before the full secret is revealed.

Mr. Edward Hyde

• Quote 1: "He gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I could not specify the point." (Enfield)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'feeling of deformity'. Analysis: Hyde's evil is metaphysical, not just physical; he triggers an instinctive, primal revulsion in others because he lacks a soul.
• Quote 2: "Satan's signature upon a face." (Utterson)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'Satan's signature'. Analysis: Uses explicit physiognomy and religious metaphor to brand Hyde as pure, unadulterated evil incarnate, walking the streets of London.
• Quote 3: "shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath", "snarling aloud into a savage laugh." (Chapter 2)
  • Annotation: Key terms: 'snarling', 'savage'. Analysis: Bestial imagery strips Hyde of his humanity, reducing him to a wild animal unleashed by the removal of Victorian moral constraints.

Victorian London

Quote 1: “a great chocolate-like pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually ransacking the upper regions of the air”

Quote 2: “The fog rolled over the city in the small hours … making the western of the throughfares look like some city of nightmares”

Quote 3:”At night under the face of the fogged city moon “