Jekyll And Hyde Key Quotations

Front 1

When the wine was to his taste

Back 1

Utterson is high class-he has access to, can choose, and knows a lot about wine.

Front 2

That was the Lawyer's way

Back 2

Utterson lives by his own rules

Front 3

Lifted up his cane and pointed

Back 3

Utterson is wealthy and well dressed. Trying to look like a higher class than he is.

Front 4

Deformed. Like some dammed Juggernaut. So ugly. With a black sneering coolness. Savage laugh. It is an odd hand. Ape like fury. Like a madman. Stumping along.

Back 4

Hyde is seen to be lower down the evolutionary chain and of a lower class. He is a Savage. Even his writing is Deformed. It is an odd hand: he is not even human

Front 5

The well known man about the town.

Back 5

Enfield is important and respectable. Men were seen to be more important.

Front 6

The bystreet was very solitary, and in spite of the low growl of London. Use of personification and onomatopoeia.

Back 6

Compares new noise of machinery from the industrial revolution and the Tube to the threat of sneering animals. Solitary suggests he is alone. Creates fear and tension.

Front 7

Mr Utterson began to haunt the door

Back 7

Haunts shows he is being silent and sneaky around the door. Middle class and didn't want to be associated with the peasant door (why he is doing it at night) Determined to find Hyde - Haunts suggests how long he has been waiting. Use of metaphor

Front 8

The moment I choose; I can be rid of Mr Hyde

Back 8

Jekyll doesn't like Hyde

Front 9

A very great interest in poor Hyde

Back 9

Jekyll is worried about what will happen to Hyde. In contrast to The moment I choose I can be rid of Mr Hyde.

Front 10

A sincere and warm affection

Back 10

Jekyll really likes Utterson

Front 11

A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven.

Back 11

Describes the smog from coal fires/factoties and pollution from the low growl of London.

Front 12

The dismal quarter of Soho... Like a district of some city of a nightmare

Back 12

Mist of London was Gothic.

Front 13

Mr Hyde only used a couple of rooms but they were finished with luxury and good taste.

Back 13

Hyde is lower class and is unlikely to be able to tastefully decorate a room. He only used a couple of rooms because he is a little man

Front 14

The carpets were of many pikes and agreeable in colour.

Back 14

If Hyde is lower class, why does he have luxury carpets? Agreeable is only a mediocre compliment.

Front 15

Themes

Fundamental idea that runs through the whole text.

Back 15

Duality - good vs evil, dual human nature

Man is not truly one but truly two.

Importance of reputation: I will say nothing I see the body. Utterson has a fear of losing his reputation.

Science - Victorians were making progress

Front 16

Motifs

Running structures/ devices which support the themes

Back 16

Urban terror

Violence against innocence - like when Sir Danvers Crew is murdered.

Silence and secrets. Lots of mystery. People can't describe Hyde.

Front 17

Symbols

Objects, characters, colours that add to the themes/ Motifs.

Back 17

Jekyll's house/lab. House represents Jekyll but the sinister lab represents Hyde.

Hyde's physical appearance - so ugly that people thought he was a criminal.

Religion - angel and the devil (Jekyll and Hyde)

Front 18

Context

Back 18

Danvers Crew had a very high reputation and people would have struggled to believe why someone would murder him.

The maid fainted: women were seen to be weak and feeble.

Reputation was very important. I shall say nothing until I have seen the body.

Soho is notorious for seedings and criminality.

If it came to a trial your name might appear. Anyone could watch a trial.

Front 19

Good God, sir!

Back 19

Carew's murder is shocking enough to permit blasphemy. Scotland would have had less strict rules than London. Sir shows he is correcting himself after an embarrassing slip.

Front 20

Clouded brow

Back 20

Utterson is worried about the will

Front 21

Grew pale to the very lips

Back 21

Face drains of colour.

Front 22

Save me my dear Lanyon

Back 22

In need, pleading tone.

Front 23

Trifling

Back 23

Means worthless, though sounds like he is brandishing his cane.

Front 24

Broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping his foot, brandishing the cane, like a madman. Broke out of all bounds. Clubbed him to the earth. Ape like fury. Clubbed him to the earth. Trampling his victim underfoot. Hailing down a storm of blows. Bones were audibly shattered.

Back 24

Shows how brutal the murder was.

Front 25

The maid fainted.

Back 25

A dull sentence after the vivid description of Carew's murder. Shows the quickness of her fainting, since women were seen at the time to be weak and feeble.

Front 26

Trampled calmly

Back 26

Use of oxymoron shows Hyde's lack of judgement and remorse