Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Quotes
Coral Nelson
Dr Henry Jekyll
● “Henry Jekyll, M.D, D.C.L, L.L.D, F.R.S, etc.”
● “If I am the chief of sinners, than I am the chief of sufferers also”
● “There come a blackness about his eyes”
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Mr Hyde
● “Something displeasing, something downright detestable”
● “Satan’s signature”
● “The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
● “Like some damned juggernaut”... “a little man”
● “Hissing breath”
● “Murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
● “Pale and dwarfish”
● “Hailing down a storm of blows”
Mr. Utterson
● “Lean, long, dusty, dreary yet somehow loveable” p.5
● “A rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile”
● “I shall consider it my duty to break in that door”
● "He never marked a shade of change in his demeanour"
● “If he be Mr Hyde I shall be Mr Seek”
● “Smile; cold” p.5
Mr Enfield
● “I am ashamed of my long
tongue” p.10
● “Well-known man about town”
Dr Lanyon
● “This was a hearty, healthy, dapper,
red-faced gentleman, with a shock
of hair prematurely white”
● “The great Dr Lanyon”
Sir Danvers Carew
● “An aged and beautiful gentleman, with white hair”
● “A very pretty manner of politeness”
● “Surprised and a trifle hurt”
Mr Poole Mr Guest
● “The servant...the butler” ●
 Conventional vs
Women Unconventional Science and
the the Supernatural
● “It seems she was romantically ● Lanyon: “Such unscientific
given” balderdash”
● “Transcendental medicine”
Duality of People
● “The ivory-faced and
silver-haired old woman opened
the door. She had an evil
face...but her manners were
excellent”
● “I have been doomed to such a
dreadful shipwreck: man is not
truly one but truly two”
The Beast in Man
● “God bless me, the man seems
hardly human! Something troglodytic
shall we say”
● “A dismal screech...animal terror,
rang from the cabinet”
● “I sat in the sun on a bench; the
animal within me licking the chops of
memory”
● “Ape like fury”
● “Snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
Secrecy
● “This Master Hyde, if he were
studied…must have secrets of
his own, black secrets, by the
look of him secrets compared to
which poor Jekyll’s worst would
look like sunshine”
● “Was to die to those appetites
which I had long secretly
indulged and had late began to
pamper”
The Urban Landscape
● “The street shone out in contrast to
its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in
a forest”
● “Blistered and distained”
● “The low growl of London”
● “A sinister block of buildings thrust
forward”
Repressed Desires Crime and Justice
● “And although he enjoyed the ● “I [Jekyll] only ask for justice; // only
theatre, had not crossed the ask you to help him [Hyde] for my
doors of one for twenty years” sake, when I am no longer here”
● “Was to die to those appetites
which I had long secretly
indulged and had late began to
pamper” [1]