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Jekyll Quotes
'Jekyll & Hyde' revision notes QUOTES GCSE English Ormerod
Subject | Quote |
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Dr Jekyll | 'a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty' 'with something of a slyish cast' 'every mark of capacity and kindness' 'wild when he was young' "My position is a very strange one...a private matter" 'looking deadly sick' 'feverish manner' |
Mr Hyde | 'the man hardly seems human' 'with ape-like fury' (Carew murder) 'a strong feeling of deformity' 'black, sneering coolness' 'Evil had left an imprint of deformity and decay' 'something downright detestable...yet I scarce know why' |
Mr Utterson | 'rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile' 'lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable' 'last good influence in the lives of down-going men' 'a lover of the sane and customary sides of life' |
Dr Lanyon | 'hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with...a boisterous and decided manner' Described Jekyll's views as 'unscientific balderdash' 'had a shock' 'had his death warrant written legibly upon his face' 'some deep-seated terror of the mind' |
Mr Enfield | 'the well-known man about town' "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning' "I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment" |
Sir Danvers Carew | 'an aged beautiful gentleman with white hair' 'the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness' |
Servants | 'evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy' - Hyde's servant 'The solemn butler' - Poole 'O, sir," cried Poole, "do you think I do not know my master after twenty years?' |
Secrecy/silence/hidden behaviours | 'the cancer of some concealed disgrace' (Utterson about Jekyll) 'This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop.' (Jekyll) |
Reputation/respectability | 'I had been safe of all men's respect' (Jekyll) 'we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other' - Enfield about Hyde |
Duality | 'man is not truly one, but truly two' (Jekyll) |
Religion v science | 'Such unscientific balderdash' (Lanyon) |