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Utterson is not judgemental
“Mr Utterson had an approved tolerance of others”
Describing Utterson
“lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable”
Description of the door
“The door [without] bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained”
Hyde’s aura
“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable”
Describing Jekyll
“A large, well-made, smoothed faced man of fifty”
Description of Hyde
“particularly small and wicked looking”
Description of Sir Danvers Carew - a respectable gentleman
“an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair”
Violence of Hyde, animalistic and atavism
“With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows”
Atavism
an ancestral genetic trait that reappears after having been lost in previous generations
Setting of London
“a great chocolate covered pall lowered over heaven […] district of some city in a nightmare”
Honour and friendship
(Jekyll) “I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world”
Lanyon’s shock
(Dr. Lanyon) “shocked at the change […] death warrant written legibly upon his [Lanyon’s] face”
Description of the viewing of the transformation
(Utterson about jekyll") “the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair”
Plot revelation - ch9
“He… drank with one gulp. […] my mind submerged in terror… there stood Henry Jekyll!”
Duality [long quote]
(Jekyll) “I was fond of the respect of the wise and the good among my fellow men… [but] I concealed my pleasures [because there was] a profound duplicity of me”
Duality [easy quote]
“man is not truly one, but truly two”
Character - Jekyll
(Jekyll) “I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and slowly becoming […] my second and worse”
Theme - Evil - ch10
“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
Ostracised
Deliberately avoiding/not inviting to social events,
What jekyll DOESN’T want to happen to him
Violence of Hyde 1
“trampled calmly”
Violence of Hyde 2
“bones audibly shattered”
Where is violence shown?
girl
sir danvers carew
psychological violence
suicide of Hyde “body still twitching”
banging the door open when they barge in
Quotes for the breaking down of the door
“the battered door stood in the middle of the room”
“The blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges”
