Jekyll Hyde Key Quotes How many do I

Jekyll & Hyde Key Quotes

How many do I need? You will writing an essay that will require at least 3 main body paragraphs. You should have 2 quotes per main body. Certain key quotes can be used over several different topics. Pick one quote from each of the following slides and say how it influenced your understanding of the topic at hand (ie. character, setting, theme etc. ).

Theme “the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence” “Satan’s signature upon a face” “the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace” “[Jekyll] was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good” “a crime of singular ferocity” “A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet” “[I] believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man” “man is not truly one, but truly two. ” “my original evil” “This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. ”

Setting “the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood… with its freshly painted shutters [and] well polished brasses” “the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence” “The door was… blistered and distained” “The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city” “[Hyde] drew a key from his pocket, like one approaching home” “the door… wore a great air of wealth and comfort” “a fog rolled over the city in the small hours” “[Soho was] like a district of some city in a nightmare” “even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly”

Symbolism “the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence” “The door was… blistered and distained” “the door… wore a great air of wealth and comfort” “[Lanyon] had his death warrant written legibly upon his face” “the smile was struck out of [Jekyll’s] face and succeeded by an expression of… abject terror” “this was a back way to Dr Jekyll’s” “[Jekyll was] a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast” “that masked thing like a monkey” “if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he cry out like a rat and run from me? ” (Poole)

Character - Hyde “I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight” “There was something wrong with his appearance… something downright detestable” “Satan’s signature upon a face” “haunting sense of unexpressed deformity” “that masked thing like a monkey” “Evil…had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. ” “Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. ” “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. ”

Character - Jekyll “[Jekyll was] a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast” “there came a blackness about his eyes” “[Jekyll was] looking deadly sick… a cold hand… a changed voice… feverish manner” “I have had a lesson – O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!” “[Jekyll] was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good” “[Dr Jekyll] was like some disconsolate prisoner” “the smile was struck out of [Jekyll’s] face and succeeded by an expression of… abject terror”

Key Incidents “trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming” “it [Hyde] was like some damned juggernaut” “a crime of singular ferocity” “he broke out in a great flame of anger” “with ape-like fury… trampling his victim underfoot, and hailing down a storm of blows” “there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled”